By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A high-ranking female officer of the New People’s Army (NPA) along with her three other fellow insurgents were killed following a fierce encounter with the elements of the 79th Infantry Battalion (79IB) and Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office at Hacienda Builder, Barangay San Pablo in Manapla, Negros Occidental early yesterday …
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Negrense Alba named new PNP spokesman
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A police colonel from Negros Occidental is the new spokesperson of the Philippine National Police (PNP). PNP chief General Guillermo Eleazar has designated Police Colonel Roderick Alba as the new spokesman effective today, replacing Police Brigadier General Rolando Olay. Alba is a graduate of the Philippine National Police Academy Class …
No manpower shortage in NegOcc healthcare system
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental’s provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, said the province currently has no manpower shortage on its healthcare system even as more medical personnel have been infected with COVID-19. According to Diaz, as of yesterday they have recorded a total of 73 healthcare workers who have been infected and have …
No more swab tests for fully-vaxxed tourists soon
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The province of Negros Occidental is ready to accept fully vaccinated travelers without requiring them to undergo RT-PCR tests. This comes as more proposals are now being forwarded to the National Inter-Agency Task Force to start easing domestic travel in the country in order to further open up the country’s …
PHO head, several medtechs contract COVID-19
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson confirmed yesterday that provincial health officer (PHO) Dr. Ernell Tumimbang has tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. Lacson added that aside from Tumimbang, medical technicians and encoders at the Provincial Molecular Laboratory in Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City also …
IN NEGROS OCCIDENTAL Police power to compel vaccination uncalled for
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental’s provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, said yesterday that the proposal being forwarded by President Rodrigo Duterte to exercise police powers in order to force the people to get the COVID-19 vaccine is currently uncalled for in the province. According to Diaz, the supply of COVID-19 vaccines being received …
Negros fishing boat death toll climbs to 7
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The death toll from a fishing vessel that sank off Iloilo’s coast has climbed to seven after the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) recovered two additional bodies yesterday morning. Based on information released by the PCG station in Negros Occidental, five of the dead crewmen have now been identified as Norberto …
Physician Licensure Exam topnotcher a Negrense
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Maria Inez S. Benedicto of La Carlota City, Negros Occidental has topped the September 2021 Physician Licensure Exam (PLE). Dr. Benedicto, a valedictorian of West Visayas State University College of Medicine in La Paz, Iloilo City, posted a rating of 87.83 percent. She shared the top spot with Jude Philip …
AS COVID-19 CASES SURGE IN NEGOCC Doctors appeal for cooperation
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Philippine College of Physicians (PCP)-Negros Occidental Chapter is appealing for Negrenses’ cooperation as the number of COVID-19 cases in the province and its capital Bacolod City continues to rise. In an advisory issued by the doctors group over the weekend, they said both the province and the city are …
More COVID-19 vaccines for NegOcc, Bacolod
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The province of Negros Occidental and Bacolod City received an additional shipment of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday. Based on information released by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) at the Bacolod-Silay Airport, Negros Occidental received 4,700 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine; 40,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine; and 17,550 doses …