Business leader Frank Carbon is asking local government units in Negros Occidental to give “extra attention” to public spaces that could be sources of coronavirus disease.
Consumers’ group Power Watch Negros Advocates Inc. is urging the Central Negros Electric Cooperative to suspend its disconnection services until the end of December.
Seventy-two farmers from three areas in southern Negros Occidental received their land titles from the Department of Agrarian Reform recently.
The Project Balik Buhay (PBB), a business recovery roadmap that has been implemented in Cebu, will also serve as a model for businesses in the cities of Bacolod and Iloilo, the deputy chief implementer for the Visayas said.
The Negros Occidental Provincial Health Office launched a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Helpline for Negrenses amid the COVID-19 pandemic yesterday afternoon.
Three persons were injured in separate shooting incidents in Negros Occidental, Tuesday.
The Central Negros Electric Cooperative closed its main office starting yesterday afternoon until Friday for disinfection.
The local government unit of Mabinay in Negros Oriental, through its Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, yesterday imposed a strict mandatory home quarantine on 56 households to stem the transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019.
All Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs), who have tested negative for COVID-19 and undergone the required quarantine, should not be subjected to another 14-day quarantine by the receiving Local Government Units, the Department of Health in Western Visayas said yesterday.
All COVID-19 positive dialysis patients will be referred to the Bacolod Queen of Mercy Hospital under a public–private initiative with the Bacolod City government, Dr. Evangeline Johnson, BQMH chairman, said yesterday.
Once again, we are made to consider the greatest desire Christ expressed just before his passion, death and resurrection in the gospel reading of the Mass on Thursday of the 7th Week of Easter. (cfr. Jn 17,20-26) His desire was
With the celebration of Pentecost Sunday, we are reminded that the Holy Spirit is always with us, always intervening and directing our life toward its proper end and its fullness or perfection. He is leading us toward how we should
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Five local government units have issued a Resolution of No Objection (RONO) to the P1.2 billion bulk water project of the Negros Occidental provincial government, with the only exception being Silay City government, Provincial Administrator Atty.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The havoc created by the ongoing drought on Negros Occidental continues, as the value of the damage to agricultural crops has been reported at more than P502 million, according to the Sugar Regulatory Administration and Office
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade strongly condemned the killing spree of innocent civilians carried out and admitted by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. These acts of violence are not only abhorrent, but also a
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