A flooded area in Valladolid, Negros Occidental*
‘Hanna' leaves 1 dead;
5 more rescued at sea
BY CARLA GOMEZ
Typhoon Hanna is expected to exit the Philippines this afternoon, but the foul weather it brought with it has caused the death of a farmer, and flooding that has affected 2,723 persons in Negros Occidental, Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office OIC, said yesterday.
Five persons were also rescued at sea yesterday.
Sea travel of inter-island fastcrafts and fishing vessels below 250 gross tons remained suspended, but Roll-On Roll-Off (RoRo) vessels and big ships continued to sail, Lt. Commander Ramil Palabrica, Coast Guard Bacolod Station chief, said.
HIV-AIDS cases up,
15 new deaths
There have been 242 enrolled HIV-AIDS cases at the Treatment Hub of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City from 2007 to July this year.
In the first seven months of 2015 alone, there were 67 new cases enrolled at the CLMMRH Treatment Hub, HIV-AIDS Core Team leader, Dr. Aurabelle Libutan, said in a press release from the Philippine Information Agency.
The number of cases recorded in the first seven months of 2015, is higher than the cases recorded for the whole of 2014 at 59, she added.
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Neg Or near completion
of forest land use plans
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW
Negros Oriental is nearing completion of the Forest Land Use Plans for all its cities and municipalities, Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer, Charlie Fabre, said.
He said the province is almost 100 percent complete in the submission of the FLUPs by the municipalities and cities. In fact, only Basay town, the farthest in the south, is finalizing its FLUP and the rest of other local government units in Negros Oriental are already done with theirs.
Negros Oriental has six cities and 19 municipalities. Only the capital city of Dumaguete and San Jose town do not have forest lands, Fabre said. Now that the LGUs have planned out the base use of forest lands in their areas, development will now focus on the watershed areas.