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Nov82021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

CSA-Bacolod to kick off St Augustine festivities

Colegio San Agustin–Bacolod will celebrate its annual St. Augustine Festivities on November 10-13, 2021 with the theme “St. Augustine: A Gift to the Mission of Catholic Education and Evangelization.”This is to mark the Patron’s birthdate which is November 13.The festivities will highlight a series of webinars sponsored by the different colleges as well as virtual activities such as literary musical competition, digital literary contest, quiz bees, movie trailer/course competition, outreach visits to partner communities and the virtual Grand Alumni Homecoming organized by the Silver Jubilarians -HS Batch 96.An Institutional Mass will be celebrated on November 10, Wednesday, the first day of the festivities, followed by the Academic Recognition and the Institutional Quiz Bee. A w...

Nov82021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Bacolod still under Alert Level 4 despite DOH downgrade to AL2

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The National Inter-Agency Task Force has not downgraded the COVID-19 Alert Level 4 status of Bacolod City, Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran stressed Sunday, November 7.He said while the Department of Health in Western Visayas has recently placed Bacolod under Alert Level 2, the NIATF had not downgraded the Alert Level 4 classification of the city that it imposed until November 14.The DOH in Western Visayas has classified Bacolod as a COVID-19 low risk area under Alert Level 2, Em Ang and Dr. Chris Sorongon of the Emergency Operations Center posted on their Facebook pages on Saturday, November 6.The DOH report posted by Sorongon said Bacolod City’s average COVID-19 daily attack rate of 19. 43 percent from October 5 to 18, dropped to 7.57 percent from October 19 to November 1.The...

Nov82021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Leni pushes for F2F classes in safe areas

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Vice President Leni Robredo (left) at the launching of the "Palugaw ni Leni" feeding program of the Laban Leni Negros Occidental.*OVP photoVice President Leni Robredo stressed the need for the resumption of face-to-face classes in areas where the risk of COVID-19 is low or there is no community transmission.“We cannot continue under the current situation, two years of no face-to face classes has had very damaging effects on the education of students,” Robredo said in an ambush interview in Murcia, Negros Occidental, on Saturday.“So the sooner that we can do face-to-face classes, as long as our anxieties over (COVID-19) transmission are addressed, would be the most ideal,” she said.She said she has been pushing for face-to-face classes since June last year in areas where it...

Nov82021 by Marchel P. EspinaNo Comments

2 Bacolod grads ace chemical technician board exam

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Two graduates of Bacolod City schools aced the 2021 Chemical Technician Licensure Examination.John Carlo Coniendo of the University of St La Salle placed 5th in the exam with a rating of 89.50 percent, while Jelmar Santibanez of Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod finished in 7th place with an 88.50 percent grade.Topping the list was Mary Dorothy Dinampo of Cebu Institute of Technology-University with a grade of 92 percent.They were among the 1,074 of the 1,322 who passed the Chemical Technician Licensure Examination given by the Board of Chemistry in Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Koronadal, Legazpi, Lucena, San Fernando, Tacloban and Zamboanga in October, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced on Friday, November 5.From December 6 to 16, regi...

Nov82021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Leni joins blessing of HQ, launching of feeding drive

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Leni Robredo and her running mate Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan, with senatorial bets Alex Lacson and former Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat at the inauguration of their Bacolod headquarters.*OVP photoVice President Leni Robredo led the blessing and inauguration of her campaign headquarters in Bacolod City and joined the launching of a volunteer-driven provincewide “lugaw (rice porridge)” feeding program in poverty-hit areas of Negros Occidental on Saturday, November 6.She also met with the Murcia Women’s Association – Lakas ng Kababaihan (MWA–LNK) leaders at Sitio Sumbingco, Brgy. Damsite, Murcia, Negros Occidental, who have been among the recipients of sustainable livelihood subsidy grants under her Angat Buhay Project.At the meeting, the officers and chapter leaders of MWA-LNK thanke...

Nov72021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Bacolod remains top performing LGU in Covid vax drive for minors

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City PIO photoBacolod City remains the top performing local government unit nationwide in the ongoing vaccination campaign of minors aged 12 to 17 years old.This was disclosed Sunday, November 7, by Dr. Edwin Miraflor Jr., officer-in-charge of the City Health Office, who shared the Department of Health updates on the national Pediatric A3 vaccination drive and the rest of pediatric population (ROPP) with the COVID-19 Vaccination Council (COVAC) headed by Coordinator Em Legaspi-Ang.Ang said the numbers for Bacolod City are indicative of the wide reach of the EOC's information efforts and parents' deep concern to ensure the health and safety of their children, including those with co-morbidities, a press release from the city government said.Bacolod City actually holds two na...

Nov72021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

FULL STATEMENT | Youth 4 Climate Hope on #GlobalDayOfAction

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The climate crisis is a global emergency that is drastically affecting the planet. It’s devastating effects have now rapidly worsened and already cost lives and destruction in every corner of the world. Extreme flooding events, rapid glacier melting, soaring global temperature, and sea level rise are one of the climate crisis’s repercussions that are already felt in every country, especially in the Philippines—tagged as the most vulnerable country to climate change. Almost every aspect of our lives, from our food security, shelter, and social systems are projected to be at risk if the global temperature continues to rise.We, Youth For Climate Hope and other allied organizations in Negros Occidental stand unwavering along with other countries striking for #GlobalDayOfAction. We demand a...

Nov62021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Volunteer-driven sea of pink welcomes Leni, Kiko to Negros

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Ronnie Baldonado photoA sea of about 5,000 pink supporters onboard 1,200 stationary vehicles welcomed Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Kiko Pangilinan to Negros Occidental Friday morning, November 5.The convoy of Robredo and Pangilinan, who are running for president and vice president, took more than an hour to slowly traverse the 15-kilometer stretch as excited supporters along the Bacolod-Silay Airport Access Road chanted their names and cheered.Supporters danced to the beat of drums with the MassKara dancers along the side of the highway from Silay City all the way to Talisay City's border with Bacolod City.Pink Robredo tarpaulins, flaglets, stars, balloons were seen on the vehicles that joined the stationary caravan, which also included a few sugarcane trucks and...

Nov62021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Leni’s top Negros concerns: NIR, sugar, renewable energy

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Capitol photoVice President Leni Robredo said if she is elected president in 2022 the restoration of the Negros Island Region, the needs of the sugar industry and harnessing the renewable energy potential of the island will be top concerns.“I think those three are the top issues that the national government can help Negros with,” Robredo said at a press conference at Acacia Hotel in Bacolod City on Friday, November 5.“It was a very important first step when NIR was formed and established because it was an opportunity. It was a very big opportunity for both Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental to finally plan as an island region”, Robredo said.The NIR was created by virtue of an executive order issued by then President Benigno Aquino III on May 29, 2015 but was abolished on...

Nov62021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Leni: No substitution for us, abusing it a mockery of law

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OVP photoVice President Leni Robredo said for sure there will be no substitution that will take place for her and her runningmate, Senator Francis Pangilinan, before the Commission on Elections by November 15.Under the law, if a candidate withdraws, dies, or is disqualified by final judgment, political parties can field a substitute who can file a Certificate of Candidacy by November 15.“For us for sure no substitution will take place, when we filed (our COCs) we were determined to finish this”, Robredo said at a press conference in Bacolod City Friday, November 5.The law on substitution has been abused a lot, when it is for very specific purposes such as death, disability or for one who has undergone severe suffering, it should not be used to put in a “placeholder “ to be ...