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Photo of the Day (November 10, 2021)
Brig. Gen. Flynn Dongbo (3rd from left), new Police Regional Office-6 director, is accorded arrival honors during the turnover of command at Camp General Martin Teofilo Delgado in Iloilo City Wednesday, November 10.*PRO-6 photo
Digicast Negros X (November 10, 2021)
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23 Bacolod villages post zero-Covid for two weeks
Twenty-three poblacion barangays in Bacolod City have had no COVID-19 cases in the last two weeks, covering the period from October 28 to November 10.This was disclosed by Executive Director Em Legaspi Ang of the Emergency Operations Center-Task Force in a report to EOC-TF chair, Mayor Evelio Leonardia, and Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, head of the local Inter-Agency Task Force, on Wednesday, November 10.Ang, also the concurrent coordinator of the COVID-19 Vaccination Council, also reported that Barangay Punta Taytay had only one active case from October 28 to November 10."We hope and pray that this trend continues. The hardwork and dedication of our medical frontliners, our doctors, nurses, vaccinator-volunteers, and barangay health workers are paying off," Leonardia said....
Sara quits Davao mayoral race, run for president, supporters urge
The Negros supporters of Sara Duterte are hoping she will run for president.*Negros Occidental supporters of Sara Duterte are hoping her quitting the Davao City mayoral race means she will run for president in the 2022 polls.Retired police colonel William Señoron, convenor of the Alliance and Broadcasting Committee-Negros Occidental, said their members are still hopeful the Davao mayor will run for president.“Pandayona (continue) Inday Sara,” he said.The mayor in a Facebook post Tuesday, November 9, announced that she had officially withdrawn her bid to run for mayor of Davao City.Her brother Vice Mayor Sebastian Duterte will be running for mayor of Davao in her place, she said.She, however, did not say if she would run for president or vice president, amid speculation ...
Former board member Tuvilla passes away
Francis Gerard Tuvilla was seen by many of his friends standing on top of jeepney parked along the Bacolod Silay Airport Access Road as part of a stationary caravan to welcome Vice President Leni Robredo to Negros on Friday.*Former Negros Occidental Board Member Francis Gerard “Tanting” Yulo Tuvilla, who was seen standing on the roof of a jeepney cheering for Vice President Leni Robredo during her visit to Negros Occidental Friday, suffered a massive heart attack and died Tuesday morning, November 9.Tuvilla, 62, who had several heart attacks in the past, was at his sister’s house Tuesday morning when his heart gave in, his cousin Paul Yulo said.He was rushed to the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod City where he was pronounced dead on arrival.Tuvilla served as board memb...
Man killed, cops probe link to another killing
BCPO photoA man on board his bicycle was gunned down at the Bredco Port in Purok Lampirong, Barangay 2, Bacolod City, Monday night, November 8.Killed was Aljun Rey Jarabilo, 22, who was brought to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where he later expired.He succumbed to a lone gunshot wound to the head.Based on the police report, the victim was waylaid and shot by an unidentified suspect while he was riding his bicycle in the area.Recovered from the crime scene were one empty fired cartridge of an unknown caliber, a BMX bicycle, a ball cap, and a P20 bill.Police are investigating if the murder is connected to the killing of a woman in the same area last week.PLt. Jonito Pastrana, Police Station 2 chief, said that Jarabilo knew the woman, ...
22 Bacolod barangays have no COVID cases
Twenty-two of Bacolod City’s 61 barangays were COVID-19 free Tuesday, November 9, Dr. Chris Sorongon, Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF) deputy for medical data and analysis, said.Bacolod City also only had 14 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, he added.EOC-TF Executive Director Em Legaspi Ang said 42 percent of Bacolod’s target population is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.She also said 87 percent of the Bacolod target population has now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines.Sorongon and Ang attributed the decrease in COVID-19 cases in the city to the intensified vaccination efforts among pediatric population, ongoing house-to-house campaign and vaccination drive in puroks and remotest areas of Bacolod on top of the aggressive contact-tracing and ...
Bello: Covid jabs not mandatory, but required in three businesses
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III reiterated on Tuesday, November 9, that vaccination against COVID-19 cannot be made mandatory."Persons cannot be forced to be vaccinated because we live under a democratic society,” Bello stressed at a press conference at the Negros Residences in Bacolod City.There is no law that requires everybody, including workers, to get vaccinated, he said.However, a national Inter-Agency Task Force (NIATF) resolution requires that workers at restaurants, hotels and personal care establishments must be fully vaccinated, he said.Meanwhile, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said the Negros Occidental provincial government will abide by the guidelines of the NIATF on when minors can be allowed to go out of their homes.We are being guided by NIATF rules, and ...
Limited face to face classes sa USLS suguran sa Nov. 22
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX1VWBENOH8&live=1[/embedyt]Nakahanda na ang pasilidad, mga classroom, mga manunudlo kag masobra isa ka libo nga mga estudyante sang college of medicine kag nursing para sa natalana nga pagbalik sang limited face to face classes sa University of St La Salle Bacolod sa Nobyembre 22.Suno sa pamunuan sang unibersidad, Nobyembre sinko sang gin-aprobahan sang Comission on Higher Education, Department of Health kag Bacolod Emergency Operations Center ang certificate of authority para sa USLS nga sugdan ang pagpatuman sang limited face to face classes para sa 3rd year kag 4th year students sang college of medicine kag nursing karon nga may pandemic.Magluwas nga fully vaccinated ang mga manunudlo pati na mga estudyante, ginapasiguro sang un...