By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Talisay City Mayor Neil Lizares III has reconvened the city’s local Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the third time. The reconvening aims to reassess the current situation and lay out the specific steps the city will undertake next as a strategic response to finally win the war against the unseen …
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Cadiz to allot funds for COVID-infected frontliners
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Cadiz City government will allocate funds for frontliners infected with the coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. Mayor Salvador Escalante Jr. said the fund will be contained in a proposed ordinance that calls for the city government to provide “free hospital expenses if admitted and P50,000 if they are asymptomatic.” …
PRO-6 receives PPE from OCD
The Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) turned over 500 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) to Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) intended for the use of police frontliners in Western Visayas. OCD-6 regional director Roberto Nuñez personally turned over the PPE to Police General Patric Villacorte, PRO-6’s Deputy Regional Director for Administration, during yesterday’s …
NegOcc’s COVID-19 cases breach 5K mark
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The number of coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, cases in Negros Occidental has now reached 5,055 based on data released by the provincial government yesterday afternoon. The Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported that as of November 8, the province has 773 active COVID-19 cases. The number of recoveries, meanwhile, has …
Praying for your speedy recovery, Xavier P. Loinaz
We were saddened during our last board meeting at Bank of Philippine Islands (BPI) when Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) announced the sudden resignation of Xavier P. Loinaz both from the BPI and Ayala boards. Citing health reasons, Loinaz earlier expressed his gratitude for his 40 years as part of management and the …
A rare kind
“Talagsa ka na makakita sang amo sina nga tawo!” (It’s a rarity to encounter another man like him!) It’s the reaction of the calamansi vendor at the entrance of the Iloilo Terminal Market when an ambulant vendor refused the monetary token of gratitude from an elderly after returning the cash that dropped from the pocket …
2020 Philippines Football League: Azkals Dev’t Team blanks Stallion Laguna
By Adrian Stewart Co Azkals Development Team (ADT) ended its campaign in the 2020 Philippines Football League with a blanking of Stallion Laguna FC on Monday at the PFF National Training Center in Carmona, Cavite. Carlo Dorin and Jarvey Gayoso scored a goal each for ADT, which ended their campaign with nine points on three …
2020 PBA Philippine Cup: Phoenix erases 16-pt deficit, beats Blackwater
By Adrian Stewart Co Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters clawed its way back from 16 points down to beat Blackwater Elite, 100-95, in the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup on Monday at the AUF Sports Arena & Cultural Center in Pampanga. Trailing 34-50 at the onset of the third period, the Fuel Masters leaned on three-point …
Construction worker nabbed for drugs in Talisay
Nine sachets of suspected shabu were confiscated from a construction worker in a buy-bust operation on Sunday afternoon at Purok Lagang in Talisay City’s Barangay Zone. Police arrested Anglo Martinez alias “Tata Bulaho,” a resident of the said place. Talisay City police confiscated suspected shabu weighing around 3.5 grams valued at P23,800; P500 buy-bust money; …
Bago City’s No. 6 most wanted arrested
Bago City’s No. 6 most wanted person was arrested around 8:10 a.m. on Monday in the city’s Barangay Dulao. Bago City police chief, Police Major John Joel Bastusbatusan, identified the suspect as 19-year-old Joseph Celestial Mateo, laborer and resident of Purok Soledad in Barangay Dulao. Judge Mary Jennifer Protasio-Arches of the Regional Trial Court – …