At least 17 areas experienced a total blackout after electricity was cut around 7:26 a.m. when a bamboo hooked on an electric post near the Puerto Princesa City Jail in Barangay Tiniguiban, triggering a “tripping of the machine”.
The one-week suspension is to allow the administration to prepare all necessary plans and all preventive measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 inside the penal prison.
Iwahig penal farm spokesperson and corrections technical officer II Levi Evangelista said that the test was facilitated by the environmental sanitation and public health laboratory of the Palawan Provincial Health Office (PHO) on July 12 for personnel and September 3-October 23 for PDLs in Inagawan, Montible, Sta. Lucia and central sub-colony in Iwahig.
Over 200 employees of the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm (IPPF) took a random drug test on Friday morning.
Corrections technical officer and Iwahig spokesperson...