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Oct262021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments
64 new COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental

64 new COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental

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Salvador Benedicto LGU photoThere are 64 new COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental, the Provincial Incident Management Team reported Tuesday night, October 26.This brings the total COVID-19 deaths in Negros Occidental to 1,272 since the start of the pandemic last year from 1,208 on Monday, the report showed.The PIMT also reported that Negros Occidental’s active COVID-19 cases dropped to 3,460 on Tuesday from 3,638 on Monday.Negros Occidental had recorded 374 COVID-19 deaths in October, the highest in a single month since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Provincial Administrator Rayfrado Diaz said Monday.The 64 new cases on Tuesday brings the total October deaths to 438.*
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Oct252021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments
Voters’ registration final week kicks off at USLS Coliseum

Voters’ registration final week kicks off at USLS Coliseum

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The final week for the registration of voters for the 2022 elections in Bacolod City is being held at the University of St. La Salle Coliseum in Bacolod City, Election Officer Katrina Trinio Caña said Monday, October 25.The satellite registration at the USLS Coliseum started Monday and will end on October 30, she said.Registration is being held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.They can accommodate 350 walk-in registrants, and 100 in the priority lane, Caña said.If there are additional people who arrive at the priority lane they can also accommodate them if there is time left, she saidThe priority lane is for senior citizens, persons with disabilities and pregnant women.There was a long line of people who lined up to register at the USLS Coliseum on Monday.For a more ...
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Oct222021 by Martian MuycoNo Comments
Lalaki patay matapos bun-on sang iya nga bayaw

Lalaki patay matapos bun-on sang iya nga bayaw

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Escalante PNP photoPatay ang 48 anyos nga si Guillermo Tuanda matapos ini bun-on sang Miyerkules sang gab-i sang iya mismo nga bayaw sa Barangay Paitan sa Escalante City.Sa imbestigasyon sang PNP, gin buno sang suspek nga si Santiago Sabilano ang iya bayaw nga si tuanda matapos siya nga sawayon sang iya bayaw sa ila away sang suspek kag sang iya iloy.Dead on arrival sa ospital si Tuanda samtang padayon karon nga gina pangita sang kapulisan ang suspetsado.
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Oct262021 by Digicast Negros StaffNo Comments
Concern over sharp rise in fertilizer prices aired

Concern over sharp rise in fertilizer prices aired

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Sugar producers expressed concern Tuesday, October 26, over the sharp increase in the price of fertilizer, particularly urea, which they said may result in low farmers' productivity and affect the government's food security program.Raymond Montinola, president of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Association Inc., said CONFED wrote Agriculture Secretary William Dar on Monday to thank him of his agency's swift action to their woes but noted the continued rise in the price of urea, which is currently pegged at P2,005 per 50-kilo bag.CONFED told Dar that the federation is appreciative of the assistance extended by the DA, especially in facilitating a meeting with the Sugar Regulatory Administration, Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority and the Planters Products Inc. as early as July,...
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Oct252021 by Digicast Negros StaffNo Comments
Binalbagan students to represent PH in ASEAN tilt

Binalbagan students to represent PH in ASEAN tilt

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CONTRIBUTED BY ALYSSA MARIE POJASVhilma Raye Gran, Caesar Abkilan III, coach Agustin Baquereza Jr., Ranni Rey Guadalupe, & John Cabrejas Jr. (l-r)John Cabrejas Jr., Ranni Rey Guadalupe, Caesar Abkilan III, and Vhilma Raye Gran (l-r)Four senior high school students at Binalbagan Catholic College qualified as one of the teams to represent the Philippines in the regional level of the ASEAN Future Sustainable Leaders (AFSL) competition on Oct. 24.Team Puhon, composed of Ranni Rey Guadalupe, Vhilma Raye Gran, John Cabrejas Jr., and Caesar Abkilan III, is set to compete along with other ASEAN countries after securing the third spot in the Philippine elimination of the said competition.“Being able to join in this historic competition and being a finalist in the Philippine elimina...
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Oct242021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments
Gatchalian targets January for full face-to-face classes

Gatchalian targets January for full face-to-face classes

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Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, former Rep. Alfredo "Albee" Benitez and Dr. Aladino Moraca at the CPSU rites in Valladolid Saturday.*Archie Alipalo photoSenator Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for full face-to-face classes by January 2022 or earlier, saying the distance learning modality is not working.Gatchalian attended the first flag-raising ceremony of the Central Philippine State University extension campus and the blessing of the CPSU training center and staff house in Valladolid, Negros Occidental, on Saturday, October 23.CPSU’s main campus in Kabankakan City headed by its president, Dr. Aladino Moraca, is also celebrating its 75th founding anniversary."The difficulty with distance learning is that our students do not absorb their lessons. They are not learning and we’ve ...
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Oct242021 by Digicast Negros StaffNo Comments
EDC, National Bookstore provide school supplies to Negros students

EDC, National Bookstore provide school supplies to Negros students

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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...
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Oct262021 by Barbara MijaresNo Comments
Negros Occidental naka record sang pinaka madamo nga napatay sa Covid-19 sini nga Oktubre

Negros Occidental naka record sang pinaka madamo nga napatay sa Covid-19 sini nga Oktubre

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Pinaka mataas nga na record nga Covid deaths sa probinsya na record sa bulan sang Oktubre - 374.Suno kay provincial administrator Rayfrando Diaz ini ang pinakamataas nga na record humalin sang nag igo ang pandemic sang Marso sang nagligad nga tuig. Humalin sang Oktubre 18 tubtob 25, ukon sa walo ka adlaw, 135 ang na record nga napatay angut sa Covid-19.Sandig sa datus sang kapitolyo, sang Marso napulo ang na record napatay, sang Abril – 37, sang Mayo – 79, sang Hunyo - 104, sang Hulyo - 97, Agosto – 60 kag sang Aetyembre - 234.Samtang, sa monitoring naman karon sang mga quarantine facilities nag nubo na ang kadamuon nga yara diri. 52 ang yara sa healing center sa EB Magalona, 16 ang sa Cadiz kag 22 ang sa Silay.Tuman na ini nga nag nubo kun ipaanggid sa naglligad nga semana...
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