NegOcc town, city send aid to LSIs in Cebu

By Dolly Yasa

 

BACOLOD City – Residents of La Castellana town and Talisay City in Negros Occidental who are stuck in Tabuelan Cebu received financial and food assistance from their respective local government units here.

About 70 Locally Stranded Individuals (LSIs) are still stranded in Tabuelan, waiting for the lifting of the ban on returning LSIs.

The LSIs staying at the Tabuelan port are from Talisay City, La Castellana and other areas in Negros Occidental.

La Castellana Mayor Rhumyla Nicor Mangilimutan said she sent financial help to her constituents in Tabuelan.

Talisay City Mayor Neil Lizares III said they sent rice, groceries, medicines, vitamins and face masks through the Talisay City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (TCDRRMO).

The group headed by Executive Assistant Geofrey Gutierrez took the RORO to bring the goods to Talisaynons stranded in Tabuelan.

Recently, more than 200 Negrense LSIs were fetched from Tabuelan.

However, the Department of Interior and Local Government Region 7 and the municipal government of Tabuelan imposed a travel ban on LSIs going to and coming from the town.

Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson also stopped receiving LSIs from Cebu as quarantine facilities in the province have been filled up by the surge in the number of returning Negrense OFWs/ LSIs.

He also noted that most of the latest COVID-19 cases in the province are repatriates.