Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar, with USEC Marvin Gatpayat (left) and ASEC Anna Marie Banaag (not in photo) and Vice President Leni Robredo addressed various audiences in Dumaguete Friday and Saturday. Andanar met with Information Officers in Negros Oriental to announce the strengthening of the government information machinery and induct the new members of the Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. while Robredo addressed a forum at the Negros Oriental State University and the SULAW Assembly. (Photos by Alex Pal and Roy Bustillo)


Tambobo Bay ‘red tide’ alert still up


The Red Tide alert is still in effect in Tambobo Bay in Siaton, Negros Oriental, although the toxicity level of the algal bloom has significantly dropped, according to an official of the Provincial Agriculturist’s Office. Wilmencita Pialogo, head of the PAO’s Provincial Task Force on Red Tide, disclosed


on Friday that based on water sample results, the red tide cell counts are now minimal. She said the red tide occurrence in Tamboboy Bay is now “below danger level. However, it is still not


safe for people to consume shellfish from the bay, she


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‘No bird flu in NegOr’--PVO


The Provincial Veterinary Office has debunked reports of bird flu cases in the hinterland barangay of Amio in Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental.


There is no truth to reports of cases of avian influenza in Amio due to increased number of cough and flu cases among residents, numbering about 32, 15 of whom are out-patients as well as the deaths of fighting cocks in the area. Provincial Veterinarian Jaime


to spread, suspected to be that of the Newcastle disease. Villaluz enjoins poultry raisers to


Villaluz issued his statement late Thursday after the conduct of a pulong-pulong (dialogue) in Amio with the barangay council headed by village chief Alberto Omangay, along with the Integrated Provincial Health Office represented by Dr. Henrissa Calumpang, affected residents and the public.


Proud Dumagueteña archer Nicole Marie Dicen Tagle is all smiles as she holds two SEA Games mascots while wearing her bronze medal in the Recurve Women Team category and her silver medal in the Individual Women’s Recurve event during the SEA Games in Malaysia. (Photo by Kim Concepcion)


dialogue that a backyard fighting cock breeder was in the process of immunizing his fighting cocks with commercial live vaccines.


should be vaccinated and so he disposed of the unhealthy cocks to his neighbors, prompting the virus


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take extra precautions in applying commercial live vaccines on chickens and fighting cocks because spillage will allow the virus to be carried airborne and contaminate the neighboring farms or backyards, coupled with improper disposal of dead fighting cocks, which according to the report were thrown only to the river.


Primary Hospital, Dr. Dino Oracion, had earlier expressed concern over the rise in the number of outpatients with cough and flu, prompting him to relay the matter to Assistant IPH Officer Dr. Liland Estacion. Immediately, a team from the


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sent to barangay Amio to conduct a validation and verification on the reported incident. Villaluz and his team is expected to go back to collect blood and cloacal swab samples for analysis, even if indications are high that the deaths of fighting cocks is due to the usual chicken diseases. Sta. Catalina is among eight local government units in Negros Oriental being identified as high risk of avian influenza due to the presence of migratory birds in the area, along with Siaton and Bayawan in the third district, Tanjay and Bais cities in the second district and Manjuyod, Ayungon and Canlaon City in the third district.


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