Nueva Vizcaya

The local government of Dupax Del Norte in Nueva Vizcaya has initiated its Community Pantry to provide free food for its villagers, especially the poor. The Community Pantry is supported by various donors of the municipality. PHOTO FROM DUPAX DEL NORTE FB PAGE BY BEJAMIN MOSES M. EBREO BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (May 3)—The local government unit (LGU) of Dupax del Norte has put up its Community Pantry to provide free food requirements for its villagers, especially poor families. Every day, poor villagers line up and wait for their queue to get their food items such as assorted vegetables, root crops, rice, canned goods, eggs, noodles, bread and biscuits, coffee, sugar and milk, among others. Names of donors are also acknowledged inside the Community Pantry, alongside their donat...

COVID. The newly completed Provincial Isolation Facility in Dupax del Norte town in Nueva Vizcaya to cater to coronavirus disease 2019 patients funded by the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Department of Health. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO DPWH completes P29M Covid facility in NV town BY BENJAMIN MOSES M. EBREO BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (April 24)—The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed the construction of an Isolation Facility in Barangay Malasin in Dupax del Norte town. The 32-bed isolation facility built within the Dupax District Hospital (DDH) compound is the first coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) facility in the country made of container vans. Dr. Edward Gines, DDH chief, said the P29 million isolation facility will have the required ma...

BY BENJAMIN MOSES M. EBREO BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (April 5)—Governor Carlos Padilla has ordered the extension of closure order among national and provincial offices within the Provincial Capitol here due to the spike of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the province. Padilla’s order on the temporary closure of the Provincial Capitol takes effect from April 5 to 8 to enable the Provincial Integrated Health Office (IPHO) for the conduct of disinfection activities. “This is deemed necessary to further contain the transmission of Covid-19 to our employees, their families and to the public whom we serve,” he said. Padilla said the temporary closure of the capitol will also pave the way for the conduct of contact tracing among employees who were exposed to Covid-19 carr...

BY LEANDER C. DOMINGO BAMBANG, Nueva Vizcaya (April 8)—The League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) has appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to classify all 1,400 mayors as frontliners and include them in the government’s priority list for Covid-19 vaccination. In a letter addressed to Duterte, LMP national president, Mayor Luis “Chavit” Singson of Narvacan, Ilocos Sur states that “mayors are active frontliners taking the lead in ensuring the health and medical wellbeing of their constituents.” “The mayors also supervise social amelioration programs and the distribution of relief goods to affected constituents and in overseeing the functionality of the local IATFs [inter-agency task force], including the operations of isolation facilities and the municipality’s temporar...