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By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Provincial Health Office (PHO) head, Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, expressed concern over the dengue mortality rate in the province, citing gaps in dengue monitoring. “The mortality rate is more than one percent which is not good,” he said, adding, a proposal to create a dengue mortality team is in the forthcoming. …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) recently endorsed a proposal by Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon, Jr. to purchase buffaloes from Australia. According to acting OPA head, Atty. Japhet Masculino, Australian buffalo is “far more prolific” when it comes to meat and dairy production, adding, Vietnam and Brunei recently …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Amid the ongoing conflict between government forces and the terrorist Maute group in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, a Facebook group called “Bacolod stand by Marawi” announced they are gathering 100 boxes of donations and will be bringing together 10 volunteers a day. The project began yesterday and will run …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Police Regional Office-18 (PRO-18) released a memo over the weekend directing all police outposts, camps, and stations throughout the Negros Island Region (NIR) to strengthen security measures, in response to the declaration of martial law in Mindanao and following recent attacks by members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A motorcycle driver was killed, while his back rider was critically injured, after their vehicle slammed into a Ceres bus in Barangay Poblacion, Valladolid, Negros Occidental, yesterday morning. Police identified the fatality as Jaynan Encila, a resident of Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City; while the injured was identified as Jefferson Liboon, …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Three drug suspects were arrested following a buy-bust operation in Barangay Malingin, Bago City, Sunday afternoon. Police identified the suspects as 26-year-old Jornel Selotero, Francisco Seloterio, 57, and Eliezer Montano, 29. Based on a report released by the Bago City Police Station, the operation was conducted by members of city’s …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A 70-year-old woman was arrested by Dumaguete City police after she was caught engaging in illegal gambling in Barangay Looc, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Sunday afternoon. Police identified the suspect as Nicanora Sandoy, a resident of Oracion drive in the said barangay. Dumaguete City police said intelligence operatives were in …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Presidents of Jesuit schools throughout the country issued a joint a statement yesterday calling for vigilance amid Martial Law in Mindanao and slamming religious extremism, while the Diocese of Bacolod asked for prayers in war-ravaged Marawi. The joint statement signed by the Jesuit administrators of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Police Regional Office-18 (PRO-18) Director, Police Chief Superintendent Edmund Gonzales, said they are currently monitoring the security situation in Negros Oriental, following recent terror acts in Mindanao. In an interview yesterday with Bombo Radyo-Bacolod, Gonzales said Negros Oriental has been tagged as a “frontier” of the Negros Island Region (NIR) …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga According to an order signed by Engineer Leandro Caymo, director of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Bureau of Land Tenure, the agency is ordering one of their local offices in Negros Occidental to investigate an allegedly illegal road construction at Purok 9, Barangay Minoyan, Murcia. The order was made …