Tag: Negros Occidental

Oct302021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Negros Open Chess Champions named

Capitol photoNegros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson led the awarding ceremony of the champions of this year's Negros Open Chess Championship, held at the Capitol Social Hall in Bacolod City, Saturday, October 30.The winners are Lorenzo Mark Raffaele of Kabankalan City (10 boys), Summer Ellaine Abanco of Bacolod City (10 girls), Christian Pelione of Bacolod City (13 boys), Jasmine Tanizin Mijares of Bacolod City (13 girls), Clark Ken Pelione of Bacolod City (19 boys), Arnie Joanne Suravilla of Bacolod City (19 girls), Amalio Bayot of Sagay City (open category), and Joshua Panes of Pontevedra (25 boys).Leo Romitman is the tournament manager.The activity is spearheaded by the Provincial Sports Office led by Anthony Carlo Agustin, Executive Assistant to the Governor and...

Oct302021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

San Carlos City bags 3rd Place in Digital Governance Awards 2021

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San Carlos LGU photoSan Carlos City’s entry to the Digital Governance Awards (DGA) 2021, which is a Viral Assessment and Monitoring System (VAMOS) software application, won the 3rd place during its virtual awarding rites Friday, October 29.The DGA 2021 is a joint program of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) aimed at recognizing the best practices of municipalities, cities and provinces in their development and solutions in the field of Information and Communications Technology including efficiency, innovation, and business and citizen governance.City Mayor Renato Gustilo along with the staff of the Information Technology and C...

Oct302021 by Romeo SubaldoNo Comments

Chocolate hills sang San Carlos City kag madamo

Tripping ni Roming

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Oct302021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Negros displaced workers receive TUPAD payouts

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Capitol photoGovernor Eugenio Jose Lacson led the distribution of Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) payouts to about a hundred beneficiaries from the cities of Silay and Talisay in Negros Occidental on Friday, October 29.TUPAD is a community-based package of assistance that provides emergency employment for displaced workers, underemployed and seasonal workers, for a minimum period of 10 days, but not to exceed a maximum of 30 days, depending on the nature of work to be performed, a press release from the Capitol said.The beneficiaries are the unemployed, displaced OFWs, disadvantaged workers such as laborers, farmers, solo parent, vendors, tricycle drivers, and fisherfolks, it added.They received P5,925 (P395 per day for 15 days).Th...

Oct302021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Bacolod, Negros Oriental on Alert Level 4, for special monitoring – IATF

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The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has placed Bacolod City and Negros Oriental under COVID-19 Alert Level 4 from November 1 to 14, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque announced Friday, October 29.Alert Level 4 refers to areas where case counts are high or increasing, and where the total bed and intensive care unit utilization rate is high, the IATF said.Meanwhile, the IATF placed Negros Occidental under Alert Level 2.Bacolod City and Negros Oriental, along with Aurora and Davao Occidental that are under the highest alert level of four have been tagged as areas for special monitoring, Roque said.Em Ang, Bacolod Emergency Operations Center executive director, said under Alert Level 4 all minors cannot go out. Under the previou...

Oct302021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Negros, Bacolod vaccinate 285 Pediatric A3 minors

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Pediatric A3 vaccination at the Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital.*Capitol photoGov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, Provincial Consultant Alfredo Benitez, Mayor Mark Golez and Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz at the launching of the Pediatric A3 drive at Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital.*Capitol photoCity PIO photoNegros Occidental and Bacolod City vaccinated 285 minors with comorbidities aged 12 to 17 years old, under the Pediatric A3 category, against COVID-19 on Friday, October 29.In Bacolod, 208 were vaccinated at the Riverside College, Em Legaspi Ang, City Emergency Operations Center executive director, said.At the Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City 77 minors with comorbidities from various parts of Negros Occidental were vaccinated, Dr....

Oct292021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Lack of 5 SB members hampering approval of Moises Padilla budget

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Mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo is seeking the opinion of the Department of Interior and Local Government on whether the P214 million Moises Padilla budget for 2022 can be approved by only six members of the town’s Sangguniang Bayan.“We only have five (SB) members and one presiding officer out of 11 so we don’t know if that can be considered a quorum,” she said.That is because four SB members are detained on murder charges, while once councilor facing rape raps is at-large, she said.“We are waiting for the opinion of the DILG, and what is a possible option,” Yulo said.Vice Mayor Ian Villaflor and SB members Jimmie Don Plaza, Jose Morito Flores and Vincent Garcia are detained for what they have called trumped up and politically motivated murder charges.They were accused of killin...

Oct292021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Makati court suspends criminal proceedings vs. Yanson 4 lawyer

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The Metropolitan Trial Court of Makati granted a motion filed by Anna Isabella Galvez, lawyer for the Yanson 4, for the suspension of proceedings and to hold warrants of arrest issued against her in abeyance, lawyer Carlo Joaquin Narvasa said in a press release Friday, October 29.The Office of the City Prosecutor of Makati (OCP Makati) had indicted Galvez, the assistant corporate secretary of the Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI) faction of the Yanson 4 for “falsification of public documents and perjury”.Recommended bail for Galvez was P36,000 for falsification and P18,000 for perjury.The resolution stemmed from a complaint filed by Olivia Yanson and Leo Rey Yanson against Galvez alleging that as “purported” VTI assistant corporate secretary she falsified declarations in the General ...

Oct292021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Sputnik, Pfizer vaccines arrive

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The Spunik, Pfizer vaccines that arrived at the Bacolod-Silay Airport Friday.*CAAP-Bacolod photoThe first batch of Gamaleya (Sputnik V) and 140,400 doses of Pfizer vaccines versus COVID-19 arrived for Bacolod City and Negros Occidental at the Bacolod-Silay Airport on Friday, October 29.Bacolod City received 17,550 Pfizer doses and Gamaleya (Sputnik V) - Component I - 2,500 ampoules and Component II - 2,500 ampoules.Negros Occidental received 122,850 Pfizer doses and Gamaleya (Sputnik V) - Component I - 5,000 ampoules and Component II - 5,000 ampoules.*

Oct292021 by Barbara MijaresNo Comments

Pagbakuna sa mga menor de edad ginsuguran na

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City PIO photoGinsugdan na subong nga adlaw ang pagbakuna sa mga menor de edad nga may co-morbidities.Sa Negros Occidental, ginpatigayon ang pagbakuna sa Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital.Ang mga opisyales sang probinsya sa pagpamuno ni Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson ang nag panguna sa launching sang vaccination program for Pediatrics A3.Pfizer ang bakuna nga gin gamit sa mga kabataan nga naga pang edaron 12 tubtob 17 anyos nga gikan sa nagkalain lain nga banwa kag siudad sa Negros Occidental.Target kuntani sang probinsya nga mabakunahan ang 300 ka mga kabataan pero, suno kay Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz, madamo sang nag postpone bangud sang mga requirements nga ginsunod patuman sang probinsya.Gina paabot man ang pagbutang sang vaccination center...