By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The barangay council of Barangay Caningay in Negros Occidental’s Candoni town has given out aid to 14 families who were affected by the recent encounter between the Philippine Army’s 15th Infantry Battalion and insurgents from the New People’s Army (NPA). Barangay Captain Edgardo Monserate said the Candoni Assistance Rescue and …
Monthly Archives: July 2021
COVID bed occupancy, positivity rate dropping in NegOcc
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz yesterday said that the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Provincial Incident Management Team (PIMT) confirmed that the province’s COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy and positivity rate are steadily dropping. According to Diaz, who recently met with DILG and PIMT officials, …
PAG-IBIG FUND FINANCES 10,640 HOMES FOR LOW-WAGE EARNERS IN H1 2021, UP 99%
Pag-IBIG Fund extended socialized housing loans to 10,640 members from the minimum-wage and low-income sectors in the first half of 2021 despite the continuing pandemic, top officials announced Wednesday, July 21. The number of socialized home loans makes up 24% of the total 43,573 home loans released by the agency from January to June this …
Lacson still undecided over stricter arrival protocols due to Delta variant
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson remains undecided whether or not to reimpose the province’s health protocols for arriving individuals due to the growing threat of the more transmissible Delta variant of the virus causing coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. In a phone patch interview yesterday morning, Lacson said so …
NegOcc to start A4 priority group vaccination
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson announced yesterday that the provincial government will begin inoculating those under the A4 category or other frontline economic workers. According to Lacson, they will use the 2,900 doses they received from AstraZeneca to inoculate those under the A4 category as they are part of …
Capitol pays for crop insurance of Negrense farmers
The provincial government of Negros Occidental turned over P9,500,400 to the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) for the crop insurance and protection of more farmers in the province, through the provincial government’s Negros First Universal Crop Insurance Program (NFUCIP). Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson handed the check to PCIC Regional Manager Eva Ulie Laud and Regional …
COVID-19 infects 12 DOT-6 employees
Twelve employees of the Department of Tourism (DOT) regional office 6 in Iloilo City tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. In a public advisory, the DOT-6 regional office said that the infected employees were already isolated and most of them were asymptomatic to having mild symptoms. The DOT-6 office was also temporarily closed …
Going the extra mile
The secret, I think, is to go the extra mile at whatever we are doing, even if it is a manual household chore which usually is the case nowadays since our stay-out domestic helpers would most likely be not available at this time. Far from falling into idleness and boredom, this current condition of ours …
COVID-19 by the number and by the letter
We sadly learned that fatalities arising from COVID-19 have just breached the “tragic milestone” of four million mark. Wikipedia, quoting the World Health Organization (WHO), reports that the United States led with 606K, closely followed by Brazil, 529k and India, 405K. Other countries which over 100,000 deaths included the following: Russia (138K), United Kingdom (128K), …
Northport mauls Phoenix for 1st PBA PH Cup win
By Adrian Stewart Co NorthPort Batang Pier leaned on a strong second quarter rampage to wallop Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters, 115-79, in the 2021 PBA Philippine Cup at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City yesterday. Robert Bolick had a near triple-double showing of 20 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds, while rookie Troy …