Mayor Renato Gustilo on Thursday, October 28, ordered the immediate clearing of clogged drainages and inspection of tributaries following flooding that hit San Carlos City as heavy rain poured Wednesday night, October 27.Gustilo, with City Administrator Estefanio Libutan Jr. and City Engineer Franuel Luranas, also inspected the areas in the city that were flooded.They visited the creeks near the national highway that may have overflowed and added to the water surge in some areas, the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) reported.Gustilo instructed Luranas to have the residuals left in the waterways cleaned and to create a "temporary canal" beside the circumferential road to ease water flow during heavy rains, so as not to exhaust the catch-basin beside the Ci...
PDEA photoPublic transportation between the two Negros provinces will resume when the COVID-19 situation on the Oriental side improves, Negros Occidental provincial administrator Rayfrando Diaz said Tuesday, October 26.Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson met with the Provincial Incident Management Team and the “assessment is there is more risks on the part of Negros Occidental in opening up the borders to public transportation with Oriental”, he said.He pointed out that the Department of Health has classified Negros Oriental as a COVID-19 high risk area for COVID-19 under Alert Level 4.Negros Occidental has been classified as a COVID-19 low risk area under Alert Level 2, Diaz added.“It’s counterproductive to our campaign against COVID-19 if we allow unimpeded or unchecked travel b...
Maga balik ang inter-island public transport ukon ang biyahe sa Negros Oriental kag Occidental kun mag mangin maayo na ang assessment sa Covid situation.Suno kay provincial administrator Rayfrando Diaz naga pabilin nga ang mga private vehicles lang sa gihapon ang maka sulod sa Negros Occidental lakip na ang compliance sang mga pasahero sini sa SPASS.Damlag pa nag hinyo ang Vallacar Transit sang resumption of trips sa tunga sang duha ka probinsya. Pero kasunod sang pinaka ulihi nga status sang Negros Oriental kun sa diin na classify ini nga high risk kag gin paidalom sa alert level 4 sang nag patigayon sang assessment ang Negros Occidental.Sandig sa assessment, suno kay Diaz, mas daku ang risgo sa bahin sang Negros Occidental kun mag tugot ini sang mas sulhay nga pag pasulod sa ...
Natalana karon nga i apela ni Governor Roel Degamo ang pag paidalom sang national IATF sa Negros Oriental sa alert level 4 ukon ika duha sa may pinakahugot nga quarantine restrictions sa pungsod.Suno kay Degamo, indi dapat nga ipaidalom sa alert level 4 ang probinsya bangud indi pa malala ang sitwasyon nila kag ang pagkapuno sang mga ospital tuga sang kulang lang nga health workers.Maga request na lang sang dugang nga health workers ang probinsya suno kay Degamo bangud sa sarang pa mag cater sang madamo ang nga ospital kun madugangan ang mga doctors kag nurses.Isa man sa nagapa puno sa mga ospital suno sa gobernador amo nga ang mga pasyente sa kaiping nga probinsya ang sa negros oriental pa ginadala.Kahapon, 855 ang dugang nga cases sa Negros Oriental pero ini ang ang mga r...
The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) teamed with the National Bookstore Foundation Inc. and distributed school supplies to more than 3,200 students from six public elementary schools in Barangay Mailum, Bago City, and Barangay Minoyan, Murcia, to help them cope with the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.Unlike its school supplies distribution events pre-pandemic, there was no mass gathering this year. COVID-19 health protocols were strictly observed to ward off virus transmission when the school supplies were dropped off at the schools, a press release from EDC said.EDC also gave an additional 10 reams of bond paper to each school from its MakiPAPEL employee donation drive to further help the students and teachers with their modular learning materials for distan...
CAAP Bacolod photoNegros Occidental and Bacolod City received more vaccines on Friday, October 22, to boost the intensified campaigns against COVID-19.The Moderna vaccines arrived at the Bacolod-Silay Airport via Philippine Airlines.Bacolod City received 7,400 doses and Negros Occidental got 66,000 doses from the Department of Health.Meanwhile, the COVID -19 active cases in Negros Occidental have slightly dropped below the 4,000 mark.The province had 3,948 active COVID-19 cases and 15 new deaths, the Provincial Incident Management Team reported on Friday.Negros Occidental’s COVID-19 death toll is now at 1,132.The Department of Health reported 123 new COVID-19 cases in Negros Occidental and 46 in Bacolod City on Friday.Bacolod City has 1,697 active COVID-19 c...