BACOLOD CITY – The City of Bago in Negros Occidental honored the country’s latest boxing champion Arthur Villanueva with a hero’s welcome and a cash incentive on Thursday.
PRIDE OF BAGO CITY. Negrense boxer Arthur Villanueva, newly-crowned World Boxing Association Asia South bantamweight champio
BACOLOD CITY - At least two component cities in Negros Occidental have required their employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) or be tested regularly at their own expense. The directives were provided in the respective memoranda issued by Bago City Mayor Nicholas Yulo and Cadiz City Mayor Salvador Escalante Jr. to their respective City Hall employees on Thursday night. "Effective Dec. 15, 2021, eligible employees, job order and contract of service workers, who remain to be unvaccinated shall be required to undergo regular RT-PCR or reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test at their own expense every 15 days for purposes of on-site work," Yulo said in a memorandum. Antigen test may be resorted to if RT-PCR test capacity is insufficient or not immediately available, it added. The Bago mayor directed department heads and chiefs of office to strictly monitor the compliance of unvaccinated employees, as well as to submit a list of all