Ang logo ng Virgelyncares 2.0.    KUWENTUHANG PABIRIK Milyonarya na si Ate Virgelyn, as in, talagang malapit na!     By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ SA LOOB ng tatlong araw mula ngayong Lunes, August 23, ang Charity Vlogger na Virgelyncares 2.0 ay magiging bonafide MILLIONAIRE na! Iniaabot ni Ate Virgelyn kay Mura at sa kanyang tatay ang halagang Php100,000 na kinita ng kanyang vlog mula sa mga 200,000 subscribers na pumasok sa account ng Virgelyncares 2.0, courtesy of Mura's fans. Ngayong Lunes ng umaga, ang vlog na ito na inilalathala ni Ate Virgelyn, a.k.a. Marc Anthony Rodriguez ng Naga City, ay humatak na ng 997,000 subscribers. Ang kakulangan 3,000 subscribers ay isang bagay na tinatawag ng mga Kano na “piece of cake” dahil nag-aaverage si Ate Virgelyn ngayon ng 4,000 mga subscribers daily. Baka bukas ng Martes ng umaga ay posible nang lumagpas ng ISANG MILYON ang vlog na ito.   Ang Virgelyncares 2.0 ay masasabing isa sa pinakamalakas humatak ng subscribers n

  Members of the zoning containment strategy kiosk in a huddle outside the premises of Magnakron Oleo Phils. Inc., where 18 factory workers are in an isolation facility of the company after being found infected with the Covid-19 virus. 173 Mambulao factory workers cleared of virus after swab tests; two found positive   By ALFREDO P. HERNANDEZ   Tensions and fears among the Mambulao town residents in CamNorte cooled off today after the 173 workers at a local factory were cleared of Covid-19 virus following their swab tests last night. “Yesterday and last night, the 175 employees (of Magnakron Oleo Phils, Inc.), went through Antigen (swab) tests, and only two were found positive,” says Mayor Ariel M. Non in his Facebook post today, updating the crisis at the premises of the factory. He identified the two recent cases as the company security guard and a factory worker. They have been confined to the municipal isolation facility at Jomapa Convention Center in town. The cleared workers hav

  The zoning containment strategy kiosk monitoring the movements of company personnel. Mambulao town in CamNorte in deep health crisis after 18 local factory workers hit by virus   BY ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ   THE  town of Mambulao in Camarines Norte has been plunged into a deep health crisis after 18 workers at a factory on the town’s outskirts were hit by the Covid-19 virus. Most of the infected workers are living with their families in Mambulao two kilometers away from the factory. They are now in an isolation facility within the company premises, monitored by the Municipal Health Office staff. Contact tracing is now being carried out to find out the persons who had the last contact with those infected. The company, Magnakron Oleo Philippines, Inc., which has a coconut processing factory, has been placed under critical zone and granular lockdown. A location map showing Bragg Osmenia where Magnakron Oleo Phils, Inc operates. . The company is  in Baranggay Osmenia about two kilometers awa

 

  SWEET ORANGES … An array of colorful fresh fruits would greet with glee a mamimili at the newly installed fruit section of the Mambulao public market. This interesting part of the market came to the scene very recently. Thanks to the efforts of the Mambulao LGU for giving importance to these vital food items in our daily diet -- the fruits of our labor.  See the story in this edition of MWBuzz.

A frontline worker checks the temperature of a passenger in the car at a checkpoint in town.   Overseas Mambolenos worried: Are our families safe from Covid-19?   By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ   Overseas Mambolenos and those away from home are worried about their families’ safety against the entry of a new Covid-19 variant called “Delta”. But the local government has assured it was working fast to vaccinate citizens for added protection. A resident gets her jab at a vaccination center in her baranggay. Already, all the health workers had received the jabs, while those for all Seniors were to come in batches, depending on the dose budget from the provincial unit of the Department of Health (DOH). Mambolenos have lauded the move of the local government unit (LGU) to first vaccinate the Senior Citizens. A native of Parang now living in Australia was relieved to know that her 94-year-old mother back home was an on queue for the jab. The elderly, identified only as “Nanay Elvie”

 OUR STORIES FOR YOU IN THIS REVIVAL EDITION 1. Oranges for sale 2. Overseas Mamboleños' worry: Are our families safe from Covid? 3. New Covid advisory from CN provincial govt 4. DILG lauds Mambulao LGU’s Covid response 5. 22 baranggay leaders, staff ignored in frontline incentive cash 6. Photo essay 7. Jun Espana comes home as CNorte “housing czar” for Tallado govt 8. EDITORIAL: MWBuzz, your news tunnel, is back! 9. Mambulao’s small-scale gold miners in a hide-and-seek mode to avoid arrest 10. Outbreak of fiercely destructive starfish in our coral reefs 11. New lease on life for dead coral reefs in Mambulao Bay 12. Drive against deadly starfish gets a boost 13 Task force to deal with COTS 14. Many Seniors in Mambulao don’t get benefits from LGU health program  15. Prices of fresh food stable; galunggong selling at “rigged bulong” prices 16. Fruit vendors get their section at the public market 17. KWENTONG PABIRIK by AP Hernandez 18. MAMBOLEÑOS’

Mambulao PNP men wait for vehicles with passengers who could be coming from other provinces. CN provincial govt imposes new health protocols to check Covid variant NEW restrictions have been imposed on persons entering the province and on residents in its 11 towns to check the spread of the Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus. The new health protocols were issued early this month by the Office of the Governor under Executive Order 27. The new rules took effect on Thursday, August 5, and are to last until the end of the month. Under the new rules, only those entering the province on essential or medical errands would be allowed. The same requirements apply to those going out. Tourists may not enter the province. Those found positive of the virus through the antigen test at the borders will not be allowed home quarantine or isolation. They will be taken back to their isolation or quarantine facilities in the towns where they live. These include the APORs or persons allowed

    South Poblacion Baranggay Chairperson Ledai Aler (left) at work during a lockdown in her area, checking the papers of a transient. 22 barangay leaders, staff ignored in frontline incentive cash By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ S ome 22 Mambulao baranggay leaders and their staff are up in arms for missing out on the cash incentives for frontliners enforcing pandemic protocols. A frontline worker at Sta Rosa Norte checks the temperature of a locally stranded person last year. They got hold of five sheets of frontline incentive payroll for only five chairpersons and their staff out of the 27 barangays in Mambulao. The payroll of the Municipal Health Office (MHO) named only five chairpersons, namely Jesse Verdadero of Bagong Bayan; Ledai Aler, South Poblacion; Rolly Cervantes, Luklukan Sur; Jerry Furiscal, San Rafael; and Ricardo Maderal, Dayhagan. The cash incentives for the five barangays with 123 personnel, including the chairpersons, amounted to Php469,636.14. Each worker was to rece

ISOLATION TENTS... The Mambulao government had set up a Covid-19 quarantine facility on Calalanay Island off Mambulao Bay shortly after the virus became more pervasive in many parts of the country last year. The island facility had been dismantled and replaced with one at the Jomapa Convention Center in town, the only accredited quarantine area for Mambulao residents infected with the virus. dilg lauds Mambulao’s Covid response The Mambulao municipal government has received praise from the Department of Local Government (DILG) for its “best practices against Covid-19”. The local government got praises for setting up a unique quarantine facility on Calalanay Island off the coast of Mambulao for locals tagged as Persons Under Monitoring (PUM). Several facilities composed of tents and provisions for PUMs were set up on the quarantine island. It was the only one of its kind in the country. The national TV news networks such as the UNTV News and Rescue reported on this unique island quara

  Photo Essay Flood control, at last … A massive drainage overhaul is going on at the RPSr Avenue to solve the perennial flooding at the central business district of Mambulao town. A small, tame typhoon rolling across town is more than enough to submerge the streets around the South Poblacion where the public market, the Mambulao Grand Mall, and other public amenities of convenience are located. Just imagine the sheer damage the floodwaters could do to the business activities in the area. A day of no business in this section of the Poblacion  is also a bad day for Mamboleños who may want to go shopping for household needs. But when the business around the area is going great, the coffers of the local government benefit, which for sure would also benefit public spending. And funds would always go to where sensible spending is badly needed, just like what the good Mayor Ariel M. Non has always kept in mind since taking over the helm of the Mambulao government two years ago. Indeed, this

  Florentino “Jun” España  (right) stressing a point in housing development for Camarines Norte as Camarines Norte Governor Egay A. Tallado listens.  España  accepts the job of the province’s “home czar” to develop a housing plan for farmers and the informal sector. EXCLUSIVE NEWS FEATURE STORY Jun Espa ña  comes home as CNorte 'housing czar' for the Tallado government By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ A MAMBOLEÑO who actively served the poor as a young man in the late 1970s  comes full circle today by doing the same advocacy for the poor of Mambulao in his early retirement years. But to  Florentino “Jun” España , 65, his brand of public service would be several notches better “if he was given the chance” to serve the people of his hometown. Just a few days ago, this golden tray with which to serve others unfolded right before his eyes and  España  knew it would bring him right where the poor of the province is. Camarines Norte Governor Egay A. Tallado offered him a job as a consultant in

   EDITORIAL   MWBuzz, your news tunnel, is back! THE need for information about almost everything has become a part of our daily lives. And we get such awareness from the newspaper, radio, TV, the internet, various online media platforms, and a lot more other sources for this free but vital commodity. The right information has become more relevant, especially during calamities, fearsome health crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, economic and social adversities and simmering political excitement now being felt in the country. With all this in mind, we have opted to revive and relaunch MWBuzz, aka MambulaoansWorldwideBuzz, for the benefits of our kababayans in Mambulao and those overseas. To recall, MWBuzz was active during those years from 2010 to 2014, reporting on the official activities of the local government of Mambulao under the watch of then-Mayor Dong Padilla and the on-goings in the municipality which had something to do with community development. In short, MWBuzz had b