Besides a total ban, Executive Order No. 12 enacts the creation of local ASF task forces for monitoring and prevention, checkpoints at the airport, seaports, and coastal barangays, and immediate confiscation or culling of any pork products or live hogs caught entering the province.
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The big loophole in the 5% Calamity Fund guidelines
The resulting exchange of views soon turned up the fact that some members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan charged certain projects to the Calamity Fund without the knowledge of the PDRRMO or the council itself.
‘There should be no fear’ – hospital chief Abella on COVID-19
Dr. Vietrez Abella, chief of hospital of the Eastern Bicol Medical Center (EBMC) emphasized that people should not panic when dealing with the spreading COVID-19 (previously nCoV).
PDEA leads launching of 3 Balay Silangan:
Three more towns to be declared as drug-cleared
Police provincial director Col. Paul F. Abay told the Tribune Wednesday last week (Feb. 19, 2020) that the towns of Gigmoto, Viga, and San Andres would be issued the coveted certification by the committee following the blessing and inauguration of their respective Balay Silangan Reformation Program facility last week.
A sad conclusion to Catanduanes’ first EJK incident
Last Friday, Tacorda unenviably made it to the pages of Philippine history when he became the first man to be convicted of a failed extra-judicial killing.
REFLECTIONS ON KOBE BRYANT PLAYING THE MOONLIGHT SONATA
As I listened to Kobe’s shortened version of Moonlight Sonata with the Luring Quartet, I also remembered the night Licad played the same movement in full in an intimate private gathering.
In island’s 1st riding-in-tandem shooting incident:
Ex-PO1 Tacorda guilty of slay try on Viga drug pusher
The Regional Trial Court last week found Tacorda guilty of frustrated murder for the Aug. 10, 2016 slay attempt on Samuel Rojas, 56, an administrative aide at Viga Central Elementary School who was then alleged to be the number one drug pusher in the town.
“Very unstable” power by summer:
FICELCO scrambles to counter NPC’s non-renewal of power deal
Warning of “very unstable” power situation this summer, the First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative, Inc. (FICELCO) scrambled to seek the support of local officials following the decision of the National Power Corporation (NPC) not to renew its Power Supply Agreement (PSA) with the cooperative.
Wear a mask and pray to the Almighty
Sure, the system now in place does not guarantee 100 percent that someone carrying the virus cannot pass through the screening procedures but at least it would allow the government to easily contain the patient and the persons he or she had contact with and prevent the virus’ spread.
The Cha-Cha train rolls again
But, the important question is whether the present Congress, whose great hall is occupied by political turncoats and members of political dynasties, approve those very same amendments that would lead to their members’ political demise?