Twenty-one local artists from the Dumaguete Visual Arts (DVA) and the Negros Oriental Network of Artists (NANO) are taking part in the first-ever Visayas Art Fair to be held in Cebu City from Nov. 25-28. Creative communities from Regions 6, 7, and 8 will participate in the art fair at the Montebello Hotel, which banners the theme “Connecting the Islands through Art,” a media release from the city tourism office said. Dumaguete Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo highlighted “the need to sustain our support for culture and the arts, despite the various challenges we currently face and that this event represents
Over 80,000 tertiary students in the Ilocos Region have been vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as of November 22, according to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). In an interview on Wednesday, CHED Ilocos Region chief education program specialist, Dr. Danilo Bose, said the massive vaccination advocacy campaign started in September 2021. Bose said based on the present data, the achieved rate is so far over 40 percent as against CHED Ilocos’ target at 70 percent vaccination rate of tertiary students by the end of December to attain population protection. “Ang target ng CHED, ang mga schools na mataas
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar assured the senators that the agency did not hire “trolls” as the Senate approved the proposed PHP1.63-billion budget for 2022 of the PCOO and its attached agencies. Andanar made the assurance during the plenary budget deliberations on Tuesday when senators, particularly Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, inquired if there are online trolls among the 1,479 contract of service (COS) personnel of the PCOO. In response, Andanar raised two thumbs to assure the lawmakers when Senator Richard Gordon said Drilon wants to get assurance from the PCOO chief. Andanar also apologized for the
The Agusan del Sur Police Provincial Office (ADSPPO) has formally turned over a two-classroom building intended for Grades 3 and 4 pupils in Sitio Durian, Barangay Lucac, San Francisco town. In a phone interview on Wednesday, Col. Ruben Delos Santos, the provincial police director, said the school building was completed with the support of different stakeholders in the province and the local government unit (LGU) of San Francisco. The initiative, he added, is part of the advocacy of the ADSPPO through its “School Mo, Sagot ng ADSPPO program.” “The school building will benefit around 60 pupils who are children of
The government has so far reported “zero” serious adverse events since the rollout of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) booster shots for priority sectors which include healthcare workers, senior citizens and immunocompromised began, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Wednesday. In an interview, Duque said the pain from injection was the most commonly recorded reaction of vaccinees after receiving the booster shots. “No serious adverse events following immunization. So these are the usual localized pain or the usual slight fever,” Duque said. He added that the booster jabs will give a recipient the same side effects as
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday said it has introduced various interventions to address the challenges on the quality of education nationwide even before the coronavirus pandemic started. In a statement, the DepEd noted that the issue of learning poverty has been a dilemma of the country for years, emphasizing that it is has been proactively dealing with the problem for a long time. The agency’s remarks came in response to a new World Bank report saying the Philippines has a 90 percent “learning poverty” which is defined as the rate of children being unable to read by the
