The Department of Agriculture is set to release a total of PHP23.65 million in cash assistance for the first batch of small rice farmers in Negros Occidental.
In a Facebook post , MARINA said the first batch of seafarers, which shipped out from Pier 4 at North Harbor, Manila on Monday, arrived at the Dumaguete Port and unloaded 23 stranded seafarers.
A total of 230 stranded OFWs from Manila currently onboard M/V St. Leo the Great are expected to arrive at the Bacolod and Iloilo ports in the morning of April 29.