BACK HOME. A Philippine Air Force C-130 aircraft from Manila landed at Bacolod-Silay Airport around 7:20 p.m. on Saturday (May 30, 2020), bringing home a group of repatriated overseas Filipino workers. The passengers included 16 who are residents of Bacolod City, and 24 others from Negros Occidental. (Photo courtesy of PIO Negros Occidental)
BACOLOD CITY – Some 134 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) returned home to Bacolod City and Negros Occidental between Saturday and Monday through various modes of transportation either from Manila or Cebu.
The returning OFWs, who are residents of Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, are provided accommodations in hotels, tourist inns, and pension houses in the city, upon the respective agreements of the city and the province with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration.
Around 4:30 a.m. on Monday, an AirAsia sweeper flight arrived from Manila at the Bacolod-Silay Airport, carrying 12 residents of Bacolod City and 19 from various cities and municipalities in Negros Occidental.
On Sunday afternoon, another group of repatriated OFWs, including eight from Negros Occidental and three from Bacolod City, arrived at the port of Escalante City in northern Negros coming from Tabuelan, Cebu.
Around 6 a.m. that day, seven OFWs from Bacolod City also came home along with 18 from Negros Occidental aboard another AirAsia flight from Manila.
On Saturday, a Philippine Air Force C-130 aircraft from Manila arrived here around 7:20 p.m., bringing home 16 passengers, who are residents of Bacolod City, and 24 others from Negros Occidental.
In the morning of the same day, a 2Go Group vessel from Manila brought home 11 OFWs from this city and 16 from Negros Occidental.
Two locally-stranded individuals, who are also from the province, also came home aboard the Malasakit Voyage.
A series of special flights and voyages arrived from Manila in the past week after the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) issued a resolution on May 25 that more than 24,000 OFWs in Metro Manila, who come from various regions, would be transported at an estimate of 8,000 persons per day to different provinces and cities.
It was in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to immediately send all the OFWs stuck in quarantine centers in Metro Manila to their respective homes within a week. (PNA)
