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Dec222021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Fully vaxxed Bacolodnons can now avail of booster shots after 3 months

City PIO photoFully-vaccinated Bacolodnons need not have to wait for six months to get a booster shot.Dr. Edwin Miraflor Jr., officer-in-charge of the Bacolod City Health Office, said the Department of Health has issued a revised interval schedule, saying that fully-inoculated residents can get a booster dose three months after completing their two-dose vaccination.Miraflor said that all adults aged 18-and-above are now eligible to receive a single-dose of Covid-19 vaccine at least three months after completing their primary dose of either AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer-BioNtech, Sinovac or Sputnik vaccine.Those administered with the single-shot Johnson and Johnson are qualified to get a booster after two months.The new guideline, which follows the amended Emergency Use A...

Dec212021 by Nico DelfinNo Comments

P1.5M nga balor sang grand prize sa pa-raffle ihatag ni anay Cong. Benitez sa mga nahalitan sang bagyo

Balita Hiligaynon

House and lot nga kuntani premyo sa pa raffle sa kaadlawan ni anay congressman Albee Benitez gin kansela. Tigaylo ang pondo ang gamiton na lang para ibulig sa mga nahalitan sang Bagyo Odette.Gin cancel ang virtual gathering sang mga supporters sa selebrasyon sang kaadlawan ni anay congressman Albee Benitez kagab-i.Bangud man sang problema sa internet connection wala man matigayon ang pa raffle. Gani sa baylo nga ihatag ang house and lot nga grand prize para sa iya mga supporters, nagdesisyon si Benitez nga gamiton na lamang ang kapin uno punto sinko milyones pesos nga balor sang grand prize para mabuligan ang nahalitan sang Bagyo Odette.Suno sa iya labaw sa pagpalipay sa kuntani makabaton sang duta kag balay ang tuyo niya nga mapalab-ot ang ayuda sa mga yadtong nawad-an sang pu...

Dec212021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

BBM, Sara deliver P2M in aid for typhoon victims

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Vice presidential aspirant Sara Duterte, Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer, presidential aspirant Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Silay Mayor Mark Golez (l-r) during the turnover of the relief assistance at the Bacolod Silay Airport.*CPG photoPresidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and his runningmate Sara Duterte Carpio delivered P2 million worth of assistance to Typhoon “Odette” victims in Negros Occidental on Monday, December 20.Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer said they brought P1 million worth of rice and P1 million in canned goods for the typhoon victims in the fifth and sixth districts of Negros Occidental that were the worst hit areas in the province.He said 2,000 bags of additional aid for typhoon victims from Marcos and Carpio will also arrive on Wednesday, December 22....

Dec202021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Nature’s wraths: pandemic and calamities

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It is tragic that a few days before Christmas, most parts of the Visayas and portions of Mindanao as well as Palawan suffered another nature's fury with the onslaught of tropical storm "Odette" late last week.Viewing the captured videos and photos of the storm’s impacts shared online was depressing, especially since the damages to properties and agriculture are severe while several lives were lost.Heavy flooding occurred in pathways of the storm, and whistling winds blew rooftops and destroyed houses and other infrastructures. Floodwaters inundated many urban centers since heavy rain continuously poured for quite a time starting at night of December 16 to early in the morning of the following day.As of this time, relief and recovery efforts are still underway as many were rende...

Dec212021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Benitez cancels major raffle at b-day to aid typhoon victims

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Bacolod mayoral aspirant Alfredo “Albee” Benitez said he cancelled the raffling off of a house and lot for his supporters at his 55th birthday celebration at the SMX Convention Center in Bacolod City Monday night, December 20, to instead use the funds to aid the victims of super Typhoon “Odette” in the city who lost their homes.There are still some people in evacuation centers who cannot go home because their houses were destroyed, Benitez said.The virtual live streaming raffle Monday night was also postponed because Internet connections are not good and there are some who still have no electricity, he said.When asked for his birthday wish, Benitez said he dreams of a Bacolod where every family will have their own house, where everybody has total access to health facilities and...

Dec212021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Digicast Negros X (December 21, 2021)

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Dec202021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Linibo nga nagub-an sang balay tuga sang bagyo nagalaum makabaton sang ayuda

Balita Hiligaynon, Digicast Negros X

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzsX6gHMbc&live=1[/embedyt]Naguba ang balay ni Jonie Daulong sang matumbahan sang puno sang doldol sang magwaswas ang Bagyo Odette sa Barangay Estefania sa Bacolod.Siya upod sa iya asawa kag duha ka mga kabataan ang temporaryo nga naga istar sa balay sang iya utod.Nagalaum siya nga kuntani makabaton man sang ayuda agud bisan paano mapakaayo niya ang iya balay.Ang balay ni Daulong ang kabahin sa masobra tres mil sais shientos ka mga puluy an sa Bacolod nga partially damaged sandig man sa record sang DRRMO.May sais mil sais shientos pa ang partially damaged. Plano ni Mayor Evelio Leonardia nga magdeklarar sang state of calamity agud man mabuligan ang mga nagub-an sang balay kag iban pa nga nahalitan sang bagyo.Ginalauman ...

Dec192021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Guanzon shortlisted for deputy ombudsman

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Commissioner Rowena V. Guanzon of the Commission on Elections is on the short list for Deputy Ombudsman for Visayas.She retires from the Comelec on February 2, 2022, where she has been a commissioner since May 4, 2015.Guanzon, who is from Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, was Commission on Audit commissioner in 2013.Prior to that, she was director of the Institute for the Administration of Justice of the University of the Philippines Law Center, and a professor in the UP College of Law while practicing law.She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (1979) and Bachelor of Laws (1984) from the University of the Philippines, and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University (1995).*

Dec172021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Close to 5,000 evacuated but no deaths in Bacolod

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Ronnie Baldonado photoBacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said Friday, December 17, that despite the fury unleashed by Super Typhoon "Odette" late Thursday evening until the wee hours of Friday, no fatalities were reported nor injuries inflicted on Bacolodnons."We thank the good Lord Almighty for sparing our people from such harm," he said."We also saw that our decision to assert the conduct of pre-emptive evacuations of families living in high risk areas such as low-lying communities and along shorelines and near bodies of water, saved lives. It was the first time that we evacuated this many pre-emptively in the wake of a typhoon," Leonardia said.He called for prayers for neighboring local government units hardest hit by typhoon, particularly those in the central and southern p...