Tag: Negros

Nov92021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Robredo addresses sugar industry concerns

Vice President Leni Robredo (center) in a meeting with sugar industry leaders in Negros Occidental Friday, November 5.*Nic Ledesma photoVice President Leni Robredo directly addressed five key concerns of the sugar industry in a message she gave to industry representatives in Bacolod City on Friday, November 5.She also outlined her initial priorities if elected President in 2022.In the signed message she released Tuesday, November 9, Robredo said the Sugar Regulatory Administration must be in synch with its new roles mandated by the Sugar Industry Development Act or the SIDA Law, and urged the agency to fight for a level playing field to counter import liberalization, even as she stressed the need for government to find measures to make Philippine agriculture world-class and com...

Nov92021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Guv hopes NIR revived by next administration

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Capitol photoNegros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said on Monday, November 8, that his stand has not changed; he hopes the next administration will consider reviving the Negros Island Region (NIR).Lacson said he hopes the revival of the NIR will this time be supported by a law so funding can be allocated.“Without a doubt majority, if not all Negrenses, would like to have a Negros Island Region,” Lacson said.The NIR was created by virtue of an executive order issued by then President Benigno Aquino III on May 29, 2015 but was abolished on August 9, 2017 by President Rodrigo Duterte.Presidential candidate Leni Robredo and several senatorial candidates have expressed their support for the revival of the NIR.“It was a very important first step when NIR was for...

Nov92021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Leni supporters hold caravan from Victorias to Manapla

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The pink caravan that started from the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral at Canetown Subdivision in Victorias City on Sunday.*John Gerona photoA pink caravan was held from Victorias City to Manapla town in Negros Occidental in support of the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday afternoon, November 7.About 51 cars, plus bikes and motorcycles, with pink Robredo tarpaulins, balloons, ribbons and flaglets joined the caravan from the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral at Canetown Subdivision in Victorias City to Manapla, Nonalyn Librodo, organizer of the event, said.Some residents on the side of the road flashed the L sign and chanted "Leni, Leni, Leni” and “Laban, Laban, Laban" as the pink caravan drove by.The caravan then returned to Victorias for a “Lugaw para...

Nov82021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Bello, Tugade arriving to release assistance

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Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade will be in Bacolod City Tuesday, November 9, to release assistance and projects to Negrenses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.They are expected to release TUPAD (Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers) assistance and Department of Labor and Employment Kabuhayan Projects at the Negros Residences in Bacolod City, Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said.About 190 beneficiaries are expected at the rites, he said.*

Nov82021 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

127,440 doses of vaccines arrive for Negros, Bacolod

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CAAP-Bacolod PIO photoThere are 127,440 doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived for Negros Occidental and Bacolod City on Monday, November 8.The vaccines arrived on board a Philippine Airlines flight at the Bacolod Silay Airport.Negros Occidental received 59,670 Pfizer doses and 45,300 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines.Bacolod City received 12,870 doses of Pfizer and 9,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines.*

Nov82021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Kiko distributes solar lights, water pumps in Talisay

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Kasanag Para sa Buasdamlag, a solar-powered streetlighting project of Rep. Francisco “Kiko” Benitez (Negros Occidental, 3rd District), was launched in the upland community of Barangay Katilingban in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, on Sunday, November 7.Benitez with his wife, Charlotte, and daughter, Ariana, turned over 14 solar street lamps that will be used for the posts in the barangay that will light up the 14 Stations of the Cross.Katilingban’s version of the Via Crucis is becoming a favorite pilgrimage site for Catholic devotees during the celebration of Semana Santa or the Holy Week.Punong Barangay Jude Javellana, who led about 100 residents of Katilingban representing beneficiaries from haciendas Magcorao, Hiyang-hiyang and Louie; Bantay Bukid, barangay health workers a...

Nov82021 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Guv, Buglas Foundation sign MOA with 30 Dualtech scholars

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Capitol photoThe Negros Occidental provincial government led by Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Buglas Foundation Inc. represented by Roger Sarmiento and Felipe Espinosa signed a Memorandum of Agreement with 30 Negrense Dualtech Scholarship Program grantees at the Provincial Capitol Monday, November 8.The 30 scholar-grantees, comprising the 5th batch, will be deployed to Laguna in January to study Electro-mechanics Technology course for two years at Dualtech Training Center Foundation Inc., a press release from the Capitol said.These scholars are out-of-school youth from the cities of Sagay, Bago, Himamaylan, La Carlota and Sipalay, and municipalities of Isabela, Calatrava, Toboso and Hinigaran.The two-year course covers Basic Industrial Skills such Mechanical, Electrical, Ele...

Nov82021 by Nico DelfinNo Comments

Commercial establishments nga naga pasulod sang menor de edad sarang makuhaan sang safety seal

Balita Hiligaynon, Digicast Negros X

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfkcpe0wmZc&live=1[/embedyt]Sa idalom sang alert level 4 status sang Bacolod, ginadumilian gihapon ang mga menor edad kag mga naga-edad 65 anyos pasaka nga mag-gwa sa ila puluy-an.Ini magluwas lang kun sila ang nagapabakuna kag kun may emerhensya kag kinahanglanon.Pero humalin pa sang weekend makit-an bisan pati ang mga magagmay nga mga kabataan sa mga mall sa Bacolod.Suno kay Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical data and analysis sang Emergency Operations Center, may yara sang miscommunication sa gin-anunsyo nga alert status sang siyudad.Ang Bacolod yara sa gihapon sa alert level four kag wala pa ini ma downgrade.Pero ginsugilanon na sang katapo sang EOC ang mga mall managers pati na ang pamunuan sang ila security per...

Nov82021 by Barbara MijaresNo Comments

Pagpalip-ot ukon pagdula sang curfew sa Negros Occidental gina tun-an

Balita Hiligaynon

Pag pa lip-ot sang ginapatuman nga curfew karon sa Negros Occidental, ukon ang pagdula sina ang ginatun-an sang probinsya.Suno kay Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson siya ang maga sapol anay sa mga alkalde sang kabanwahanan kag siudad para mapat-od man ang ila nga panindugan.Yara na karon sa alert level 2 ang Negros Occidental. Sa guidelines sang National Inter-agency Task Force, ang lugar ginapaidalom sa alert level 2 kun ang transmission manubo na kag padayon nga naga nubo kag ang health care utilization manubo.Napaidalom man sa alert level 2 ang isa ka lugar kun ang case count manubo pero nagasaka, ukon ang case count manubo kag padayon nga naga nubo pero ang total bed utilization rate kag intensive care unit utilization rate nagasaka.Sa alert level 2, mas ha...

Nov82021 by Martian MuycoNo Comments

2 patay sa karambola sa Murcia

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Murcia PNP photoPatay ang driver sang motor nga si Julieto Canyete kag ang iya angkas nga si Jimmy Gadiane matapos mabungguan sang delivery van sang sabado sa dalan sa Barangay Pandanon Silos sa banwa sang Murcia.Sa imbestigasyon sang Murcia PNP, ang delivery van nga kargado sang ice cream nga gina maneho ni Michael Cabugwason ang nadulaan sang preno kag una nga nabungguan sini ang iya gina sundan nga mini van.Matapos mabungguan ang mini van, nag swerve ang delivery van sa pihak nga lane kag nabungguan sini ang motorsiklo kabangdanan nga nag labog ang duha ka bikima nga amo ang gin tunaan sang ila kamatayon.Naigu man ang isa ka suv nga naga sunod sa motorsiklo.Nag agum man sang minor injury si Cabugwason pati na ang driver sang nabungguan nga SUV kag iya mga pasahero....