September 7, 2020

Strictly enforce health protocols, cops told

Western Visayas police chief Brig. Gen. Rene Pamuspusan yesterday ordered the strict implementation of health protocols, following observations by the Joint Task Force COVID-19 Shield of blatant violations of motorcycle-riding rules, drinking sessions, and other quarantine violations that were posted on social media.

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El Cid goes on isolation as virus hits grandchild

Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said yesterday that he and other members of his family are on self-isolation in different rooms of their house after one of his granddaughters tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) although she is asymptomatic.

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380 new cases in Bacolod

Bacolod City had 380 new COVID-19 cases during the weekend and one death, keeping its first place ranking in Western Visayas, the Department of Health reported yesterday.

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COA clears city officials of sanitary landfill case

The Commission on Audit lifted the Notice of Disallowance issued against 14 Bacolod City officials, including Mayor Evelio Leonardia, on the alleged illegal purchase by the city government of a 7-hectare property in Barangay Felisa for its solid waste disposal facility.

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Gov’t JO, 4 others nabbed for drugs

A job order employee of a local government unit and four other drug suspects were arrested by the police in a series of buy-bust operations on September 4 and 5 in Negros Occidental that also yielded an estimated P140,000 worth of suspected shabu.

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