August 25 to 31, 2012

Dengue cases swell again

Dengue cases in San Carlos are rising.

As of August 29, 146 dengue cases are on the San Carlos City Health Office records. 46 of these are confirmed cases while there are two deaths. The data covers from January. Dr. Arniel Lawrence Portuguez, CHO department head, admitted that the city is now Negros Occidental's dengue topnotcher.

Stop dengue before it stops you

Based on Department of Health's leaflet campaign "Pamatyon ang Pitik-pitik, Tapna-on ang Dengue", here are the easy steps to prevent the spread of dengue mosquitoes in homes, schools and communities.

Get rid of stagnant water on containers, below dish racks, and especially on the refrigerator's water collector (found at the bottom).

Scrub clean all water containers such as pails, basins, and drinking water jugs. And provide them with covers. Remind everyone in the house to put back the cover after getting water from the containers. 

Keep the surroundings clean and get rid of objects that may store water (e.g. bottle caps, plastic cups, and plastics). Provide proper receptacle with cover for garbage, both biodegradable and non-biodegradable.

Water in flower vases must be changed once a week.

If there is a vacant lot in your area that may become

a breeding ground for mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects and pests, inform your barangay officials immediately and request them to conduct a clean-up drive.

Remember not to resort to fogging or burning garbage and dried leaves to drive away mosquitoes because this will not kill the mosquitoes and their eggs but will only make them transfer to a wider

area. 

Valmayor on GIP honorarium: Can’t afford

"It's very heavy for the city."

City Mayor Gerardo Valmayor, Jr. said the city cannot afford to shoulder the honorarium of 322 interns under the Expanded Government Internship Program (GIP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Centralians to face libel raps

Officers of the Central Negros College Supreme Student Council are now facing a libel charge for staging a protest against Mario Ledesma and wife Socorro Broce-Ledesma.

Telenovela

With all due respect to the late Department of Interior and Local Government Sec. Jesse Robredo, that opportunistic politicians, our governor counted, are now calling for his wife Leni to run for senator come 2013 is both an example of stupidity and the proof of our shallowness.

Is this because one of the Robredo daughters expressed her desire to someday become another 'Kris Aquino' so the headless crooks (or crocs) are now coaxing the mother to become another 'Cory?'

Well, we already have too many telenovela scripts with too much crying going. We don't need yet another one.

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Sulundon

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez

Sulondon gayud nga public servant kini si Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo kay sa siya pa ang mayor sa dakbayan sa Naga, Bicol Region, iyang gihimo ang tanan kutob sa iyang masarangan hangtud nga ang Naga City naila sa tibuok kalibutan nga most progressive city ug tungod niini, nahimo siyang most outstanding mayor of the Philippines. Lahi ra gayud kon ikompara si Robredo sa uban nga mga public officials kay kon mosuroy nga motan-aw sa mga proyekto sa siyudad, makit-an siya nga maglakaw nga musok-sok lang ug T-shirt nga magtsinelas nga motimbaya sa mga tawo.

Meron o Wala

Pikpik sa Abaga

Ni Henry Sandoval

Bisan asa kang painitan dinhi sa San Carlos dili gayud malikayan nga mahilambigit ang mga isyu sa politika labi na nga dunay mga holohongihong nga nabungkag ang grupo sa taas. Basta may kontra na gani ang politiko nga managan magkatol ang palad sa mga bumuboto. Sadya man kuno kay ang mga kandidato nga may mga kontra abtik nga mohulbot sa ilahang pitaka kay lagi 'andam ug tagana nga mutabang sa mga kabus ug nagkinahanglan.' Magpahimulos pud pag-ayo ang mga oportunistang dagko kay lagi nagkinahanglan man ang mga kandidato. 

Apan may kontra ba gyud?

Gimmickry during tragedy

Soldier's Pen

By BGen. Alexander Cabales (Ret.)

Three days into the crash, DOTC Secretary Mar Roxas, the 'spokesman' of the Robredo Operations emphasized that their operations were still in the nature of 'Search and Rescue.'  Yet their activities in the succeeding days involved a preponderance of diving operations in the waters of Masbate. The nature of these actions was therefore that of 'Search and Recovery' contrary to what Secretary Roxas emphasized.

Sec. Mar Roxas during the Search and Recovery operations
Photo Credit: Philippine Inquirer

NewsRecord marks 27th year

27 Years

27 years and counting, NewsRecord Weekly Publication stands as the only enduring bastion of community journalism in San Carlos City.

In this far-flung and quiet town, it should be least expected that community media can thrive. Proof of this is the fate of the now defunct AM radio station, DYRS, and NewsRecord's print contemporaries like Negros Gazette, Northern Star, San Carlos Chronicle, Lamdag, the news letter of the Local Government Unit, and San Carlos News.

Fixing still rampant at San Carlos Smoke Test Center

Grease cash is again required to pass at San Carlos Emission Testing Center.

This is as proven by the story of a source and vehicle owner, who asked not to be named and had a vehicle tested on August 22.

The source told that her vehicle had recently undergone repairs and overhauls at Berting Machine Shop at the National Highway and that it was already in perfect condition before it was brought to the testing center located at San Julio Realty, Inc. grounds.

Editorial

PASS IT NOW!

No greater heresy has been trumpeted by someone in power than the notion that our people need no Freedom of Information Act, because, according to one USec. Carandang, President P-Noy is already transparent in the governance of the State and is the embodiment of honesty in handling the reins of power.

New frat?

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez

Naa koy nasagap nga impormasyon nga diha kuno sa Sitio Maraguos, Barangay Nataban kini kunong bana sa usa ka maestra mao kunoy nagmugna aning grupo-grupo sa mga estudyantye nga nagpangidaron ug siyam hangtud onse ka tuig. Ang mga ginikanan nabalaka kaayo tungod kay kining mga bataa may mga armas na nga kutsilyo.

Mga aso sa katilingban

Pikpik sa Abaga

Ni Henry Sandoval

Dili na ti-aw ang mga panghitabo karon dinhi sa siyudad sa San Carlos. Dili lang to dugay nga may gitulis patay didto sa may Puso Tres, Barangay Guadalupe. Ang hinungdan mao ang pag-interes sa mga tawo nga dautan sa pagkuha sa kwarta sa ilahang biktima.

Tungod tingali kini sa kalisod na sa panahon nga ang uban gusto na lang mohimo ug dautan para makakuha ug kwarta sa uban para ibuhi sa ilahang mga pamilya. Apan dili man sad gayud ka magdugay kay sa higayun nga mobuhat ka ug dautan mosingaw nga murag aso nga dili gayud nimo matago moguwa gyud.

Wanted

No Baby Talk

By Georgene Rhena P. Quilaton-Tambiga

NewsRecord is now 27 years old and just so near the transition to its fourth decade. It doesn't fail to amaze me that after all these years the newspaper has not grown to a megalomaniac chain of newspapers just like Cebu's Sun.Star or Ilo-ilo's Panay News. My understanding of the plight of most Philippine community newspapers, however, had put the amazement to sleep.

The Paralympics

Friendly Observer

By Arthur Keefe

We are now looking forward to the Para (or Parallel) Olympics, where disabled athletes from all over the world compete at the highest level in adapted competitions.

The origins of this were in England in 1948, when a Jewish German Doctor who had fled the Nazis, was given charge of a unit for soldiers with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville hospital.