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Dec132021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Sillimanian tops nursing board exam, 3 from Negros schools also in top 10

Photo from Kiarra Belle Poblador FBSilliman University graduate Kiarra Belle Poblador topped the November 2021 Nurse Licensure Examination, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced on Friday, December 10.Poblador, who grew up in Bacolod City, scored a 89.40 passing rate.She said in a Facebook post that she is truly grateful to all her mentors at Silliman University as “they have equipped us with the best resources to further our skills, knowledge, and attitude.”She added, it wasn't an easy four years of nursing school, but it was all worthwhile.Fellow Sillimanian Esther Faith Padilla and Ia Hanna Samillano of Riverside College finished in the fourth spot. Both got a score of 87.80 percent.Another Sillimanian on the list was Nicole Allyson Fry, who was ...

Dec132021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

11 former rebels receive P20k livelihood assistance

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Eleven former rebels received livelihood settlement grants (LSG) of P20,000 each under the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) held in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, on Friday, December 10.The assistance was based on Executive Order No. 70 series of 2018 entitled “Institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation Approach in Attaining Inclusive and Sustainable Peace, Creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, and Directing the Adoption of a National Peace Framework", a press release from the Army said.Brig. Gen. Inocencio Pasaporte, 303rd Brigade commander, said the 11 former rebels were from Guihulngan City. "The government is sincere in helping our brothers and sisters, who were vi...

Dec122021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

WV officials told: Prepare for potential tropical cyclone

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The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council alerted all local government officials and DRRMCs in Western Visayas on Sunday, December 12, to prepare for a potential tropical cyclone.The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) reported that a potential tropical cyclone is expected to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Tuesday, December 14, and will be named “Odette”, Ma. Aletha Nogra, Office of Civil Defense-Western Visayas OIC, said.It may intensify into a typhoon before making landfall on Wednesday evening, December 15, or Thursday morning, December 16, over Eastern Visayas, she said.She reminded local government officials to strengthen risk communication and localize warnings to communities within ...

Dec122021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

McDonald’s first NXTGEN store in Negros opening at Forbes Hill

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The first-ever, full-scale McDonald’s NXTGEN store in Negros Island in front of Megaworld’s exclusive Forbes Hill residential village and beside the iconic Bacolod Welcome Marker will officially open on Tuesday, December 16.The much-awaited opening of the unique and first-in-the-province McDonald’s NXTGEN store is finally happening as Megaworld continues to bring excitement to its 53-hectare Northill Gateway township along the Bacolod-Silay Airport Access Road, Harold Geronimo. Megaworld Corp. senior assistant vice president and head of PR and media affairs, said Sunday, December 12.In yet another first in Negros Island, the interiors and exteriors of McDonald’s Forbes Hill are designed following the Ray Palette, the fast food giant’s latest, global standard design scheme that puts...

Dec122021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Army’s 79IB intensifies info drive vs. NPA recruitment in Toboso

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The Army’s 79th Infantry (Masaligan) Battalion has intensified its awareness campaign to counter the recruitment and extortion activities by the communist rebels, particularly among the government officials in Toboso, Negros Occidental.An information awareness drive was conducted on Friday, December 10, at the Municipal Hall of Toboso, and was participated by Mayor Richard Jaojoco, barangay captains and representatives from the nine barangays of Toboso headed by Roberto Villasis and PNP personnel led by PCpt Paul Kenneth Magan, an Army press release said.Lt. Col. J-jay Javines, 79IB commander, provided the overview of the activity highlighting how the barangay officials can contribute to the government’s whole-of-nation approach to end local armed conflict and finally eliminate ins...

Dec122021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Pink volunteers join Valladolid Our Lady of Guadalupe feast

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More than a thousand parishioners of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Valladolid, Negros Occidental, got to taste the “Lugaw ni Leni” handed out by supporters of presidential candidate Leni Robredo after the mass celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday, December 11.Laban Leni Negros Occidental (LLNO) spokesperson, Pinky Ocampo, said that volunteers were “overwhelmed with the warm reception we got from the parishioners and we are thankful that other volunteer groups worked with us to serve the people.”Aside from lugaw, the group also distributed pink juices, pink pandesal, siopao and entertained the crowd with their signature Pink Mob dance.“We would also like to thank Fr. Aniceto “Mao” Buenafe for the invitation,” Ocampo said, adding that the presence ...

Dec122021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

33 ka mga Pinoy naga positive sa HIV kada adlaw

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Dec112021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

SP to hear complaint vs. ‘Hepatitis C outbreak’

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The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Health is set to hold a hearing on a complaint of an alleged “outbreak of Hepatitis C virus” at the hemodialysis facility of a private hospital in the city.Councilor Cindy Rojas, SP Committee of Health chair, said on Friday, December 10, that she has set the hearing at the SP session hall at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.Representatives of the City Health Office, Department of Health and the City Legal Office, and the stakeholders from both sides have been invited so all sides can be heard, Rojas said.Rojas said the hearing is being held in response to a letter sent by Alma Lamis Desabille, a representative of the complainants, to Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran.It was alleged that more than 60 patients were affected, Rojas said.Desabill...

Dec112021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

5th District congresswoman, 4 mayors for Marcos, Carpio

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Candidate for board member Rolito “Bebot” Espinosa, Binalbagan Vice Mayor Ursecio Inodeo, Hinigaran Vice Mayor Teresita Gabrido, La Castellana Mayor Rhumyla Mangilimutan, Rep. Ma Lourdes Arroyo, Isabela Mayor Irene Montilla, Binalbagan Mayor Alejandro Mirasol, Moises Padilla Mayor Ella Celestina Yulo and candidate for board member Anthony Occeño (l-r) at the Isabela Socio Cultural Center in Isabela, Negros Occidental, Friday, December 10.*Rep. Ma. Lourdes Arroyo and four mayors of the fifth district of Negros Occidental are supporting the tandem of presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and vice presidential aspirant Sara Duterte-Carpio.Two other mayors of the fifth district have yet to announce whom they are supporting.Arroyo, in an interview Friday, Decembe...