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9th GMEA celebrates media, content creators who inspire positive change
The rapid adoption of digital technology has dramatically changed people’s lives and society. With this global shift to virtual spaces, the 9th Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA) aims to recognize the importance of digital platforms in delivering relevant news and content to the public.With the theme “#PadayonDigital: Uplifting Lives Through Digital Technology,” Globe invites media and content creators in Visayas and Mindanao to be part of these meaningful awards and be recognized. Storytellers can submit works that show how they embraced digital to provide inspiring narratives that mirror today’s challenges and triumphs.Padayon is a Cebuano term that means to move forward or to continue. In some cases, it is also used for cheering someone, ushering them to go on.“The 9th GME...
DILG response to Bacolod: Negros Occidental can require S-PaSS
The Negros Occidental provincial government can require an S-PaSS (Swift, Safe, Smart Passage), DILG regional director Juan Jovian Ingeniero said Wednesday night, November 24.In a text message to DIGICAST NEGROS, he said they have already responded to the letter of Bacolod City questioning the authority of the Negros Occidental provincial government to require Bacolod-bound passengers arriving at the Bacolod–Silay Airport in Silay City to obtain an S-PaSS.“We have provided them the policy direction towards the use of S-PaSS based on the existing IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force) Resolution. In as far as the RIATF is concerned, we are in abeyance to the policy set by the IATF on the use of S-PaSS; in which the LGUs have the means to set depending on their travel restriction,” he said.
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Ang says airline advisory requires false information
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines in an advisory is now requiring Bacolod residents to declare that they are Barangay Airport, Silay City, residents when applying for an S-PaSS, Executive Director Em Legaspi Ang of the Bacolod Emergency Operations Center-Task Force, said Wednesday, November 24.“Rather than ridding some of the inconvenience, they are instructing Bacolod residents to mis-declare personal information in an official government platform,” she said on her Facebook page.She said it is tantamount to instructing inbound travelers to lie by supplying fake or false information.Sadly, it leaves a bad taste on the mouth, Ang said.“According to (Negros Occidental) Provincial Administrator Ray Diaz, SPaSS is used as a ‘primary contact tracing system’. How is this new polic...
Negros Occidental, Bacolod have 78 new Covid-19 deaths
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City may be going down, but the deaths from the virus are still high.There were 78 new deaths reported by the Department of Health on Wednesday, November 24.Bacolod City had 45 new deaths and Negros Occidental had 33.Negros Occidental has a total of 792 COVID-19 deaths and Bacolod City has – 707, the DOH report added.Bacolod City has 562 active COVID-19 cases, the DOH said.The Provincial Incident Management Team reported 523 active COVID-19 cases and a total of 1,677 COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental.*
Presidential bet stresses need for renewable energy
Labor leader and presidential bet Leody de Guzman joins the call for energy reform and labor rights during a protest at the Fountain of Justice in Bacolod City Wednesday, November 24.*Konsyumer Negros photoLabor leader Leody de Guzman, Partido Lakas ng Masa presidential candidate, stressed the need for renewable energy sources to create much needed green jobs and affordable energy.De Guzman, at a press conference at the Negros Press Club in Bacolod City on Wednesday, November 24, said because of COVID-19, workers across Negros and the Philippines today are heavily burdened not only by limited or lost livelihood, but also increasing costs of basic necessities.“As we seek to move forward from this crisis towards a new normal where workers and ordinary Filipinos are far more empo...
Masobra sa 40 ka mga vaccination centers gintalana para sa National Vaccination Days
Target sang Bacolod nga mabakunahan ang masobra sisenta ka mga indibidwal sa natalana nga 3 day national vaccination sa Nobyembre 29 tubtob Disyembre uno.Gani magluwas sa pag-gamit sang mga eskwelahan bilang dugang nga vaccination centers, ila man igahanda ang mga kabarangayan para sa 3-day vaccination.Suno kay Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical data and analysis sang Emergency Operations Center, preparado naman ang katapo sang City Health Office, COVAC Council, EOC upod sa mga barangay health workers nga italana sa masobra kwarenta ka mga vaccination centers nga ila ihanda.Nagalaum ang katapo sang EOC nga paagi man sa 3-day national vaccination malab-ot sang Bacolod ang 70 percent nga herd immunity sa Disyembre kadungan sang posible pagpahalog pa sang mga travel kag health...
9 ka mga kongresista sa Negros Island liwat nga nagduso sang pagbalik sang NIR
Gina abi-abi ni Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson ang pag file sang siyam ka mga kongresista sa isla sang Negros sang bill para sa Negros Island Region.Suno kay Governor Lacson ayhan indi man lubos nga matigayon ini sa 18th Congress, nagalaum siya sang katumanan sini sa masunod nga kongreso.Sang Martes ginfile sang siyam ka mga kongresista ang house bill 10-5-34 para sa pag tuga sang Negros Island Region para sa mas maayo nga economic coordination kag mas masulhay pa gid nga paghatag sang public service sa Negros Occidental kag Oriental suno kay 3rd District Representative Francisco “Kiko” Benitez.Kabahin sa naglagda para sa Negros Island Region Act amo sanday Representatives Gerardo Valmayor, Leo Rafael Cueva, Juliet Ferrer, Ma. Lourdes Arroyo, Greg Gasataya, Step...
Negros Occidental padayon nga maga-require sang S-PaSS; Bacolod nagapabilin nga indi mag require sang S-PaSS sa mga nabakunahan
S-Pass nagapabilin nga requirement sang Negros Occidental para sa tanan nga maga sulod sa probinsya.Suno kay Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson nagapabilin ang panindugan sang probinsya nga naga lakip sa mga pasahero nga padulong sa Bacolod City kag maga agi sa Bacolod-Silay Airport.Ang pag require sang S-Pass suno sa gobernador kasubong nga gina buligan ang airline companies bahin sa pag verify sa mga dokumento sang mga traveller bangud paagi sa S-Pass gina validate na nga daan ang ayhan vaccination certificate ukon ang negative RT PCR Test result nga gina require.Sa executive order nga ginpa gwa ni Mayor Evelio Leonardia kasunod sang pag paidalom sa alert level 2 sang Bacolod, indi na kinahanglan pa sang fully vaccinated nga maga padulong sa Bacolod sang S-Pass....