The Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center Task Force (EOC-TF) is discouraging the public from attending social gatherings or dining out with people not members of their own household. The warning came after an administrative officer of a hospital in the city tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. According to the contact tracing report, …
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Dry season to start soon
The state weather bureau advised Filipinos to take precautionary measures to minimize heat stress as the warm and dry weather condition is about to start. In a statement released Tuesday, Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) administrator Vicente Malano said the cold or northeast monsoon season will likely be over by the end …
NegOcc warns travelers against fake COVID test results
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The provincial government of Negros Occidental is warning travelers entering the province not to fake COVID-19 test results. This comes after the Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) confirmed that several individuals bound for the city were intercepted for presenting fake reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results. Provincial Incident …
No lockdown in Western Visayas
Lacson lauds reg’l task forces’ decision to only allow ‘essential travel’ The joint Regional Task Force (RTF) and Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) clarified yesterday that they did not declare a lockdown in Western Visayas. The regional task forces said they merely adopted the provisions of the National IATF Resolution No. 104, dated March 20, …
NegOcc to seek suspension of flights from Manila
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson will write a letter to the national Inter-Agency Task Force (NIATF) requesting for a two-week suspension of inbound flights from Metro Manila to the Bacolod-Silay Airport due to a recent sudden surge of COVID-19 cases in the National Capital Region. According to Lacson, he …
NegOcc’s active COVID cases surge to 301
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The number of active COVID-19 cases in Negros Occidental climbed to 301 based on data released by the Department of Health (DOH) Region 6 yesterday. Based on the DOH’s March 21 bulletin, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the province is at 7,084 with recoveries at 6,587 and fatalities …
PDEA busts another drug den in Bacolod
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) dismantled another drug den and arrested five individuals following a buy-bust operation at Purok Langis in Bacolod City’s Barangay Banago late Monday afternoon. PDEA agents identified the arrested as Val Demafiles, Paul Dasuyo, John Mark Limson, Jomar Parar, and Felix Albarico, Jr., …
Bus trips outside NegOcc to resume
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, affirmed yesterday that they have met with representatives of the Vallacar Transit Incorporated (VTI) and officials of the Northbound and Southbound terminals in Bacolod City to discuss plans for the resumption of bus trips heading to destinations outside of the province. According to …
NegOcc hotels, resorts fully booked for Holy Week
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Provincial Tourism Office (PTO) yesterday revealed a lot of Negros Occidental’s hotels, resorts and other accommodation establishments are now fully booked for the Holy Week, which takes place on the first week of April. In an interview with RMN DYHB-Bacolod yesterday, PTO head, Dr. Jennylind Cordero, said accommodation establishments, …
Drug ‘pusher’ yields P34K ‘shabu’ in San Carlos
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A suspected drug pusher was arrested following a buy-bust operation conducted by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Negros Occidental and San Carlos City Police Station at Ylaga Ext. in San Carlos City’s Barangay 5 on Sunday, March 14. PDEA agents identified the arrested as Erlinda “Inday” Escobar …