Negros declared
MERS-CoV free
BY CARLA GOMEZ

“Negros Occidental is MERS-CoV free”.

This was declared by Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, Negros Occidental provincial health officer, yesterday after the last two of six Negrenses placed under quarantine were found negative for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus.

The two from Bacolod were released from the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital yesterday.

The six Negrenses placed under quarantine were among the 414 on board the Etihad Airways flight EY0424 that arrived in the Philippines on April 15, where one of their co-passengers was initially found positive for MERS-CoV.

OBO issues 6
notices of violation
TO 5 PUNTA TAYTAY RESORTS, PRIEST
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Office of the Building Official issued notices of violation against six other structures in Brgy. Punta Taytay, Bacolod City, yesterday.

OBO head Isidro Sun had earlier issued a notice of violation to Francis Rey Cabuga, owner of Villa Iska Beach Resort, and Villarosa Beach Resort last week.

Sun said he issued notices of violation yesterday to Palma 1 and Palma 2 beach resorts, Shelton Beach Resort, Alcala Beach Resort, Horizon Beach Resort and a priest who owns a structure in Punta-Taytay, for lack of building permits.

COMELEC warns:
We'll delete names
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Commission on Elections is requiring all voters to have their biometric data taken or their names will be deleted from the list of voters, in compliance to R.A. 10367, or the Mandatory Biometrics Voter Registration Act of 2013, Bacolod Election Registrar Mavil Majarucon-Sia said yesterday.

She said the registration of voters in preparation for the May 9, 2016 elections will start on May 6, 2014 and end Oct. 31, 2015.

Majarucon-Sia said Bacolod has 14,256 active voters who do not have biometric data with 2,451 having incomplete biometric data.