Public transportation was suspended, while there will be limited movements of people in and out of Bacolod City unless for essential purposes after it upgraded its status to modified enhanced community quarantine until the end of this month.
The Philippine Competition Commission has approved the acquisition by Universal Robina Corporation of the assets of Roxas Holdings Inc., including the sugar milling and bioethanol distillery plants in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental.
The Social Security System (SSS) hits a P5 billion-mark in pension loan releases benefitting 138,917 pensioners from September 2018 to July 31, 2020, its press release said yesterday.
Suddenly, we woke up to hand sanitizers greeting us on our way to the elevators. Also, every entrance and exit to all restaurants on board the MS NOORDAM was blocked by smiling staff all holding hand sanitizers. There were crew members nonstop wiping the door handles, elevator buttons, toilets and rails leading to the food area with decontaminants.
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) will lead the way in setting up the return of collegiate sports teams to practice amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Drex “T-Rex” Zamboanga, a former Philippine mixed martial arts world champion, marked his ONE Championship debut with a hard-earned submission victory over Thailand’s Detchadin Sornsirisuphathin Bangkok.
Tokyo’s postponed Olympics will go ahead next year regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC vice president John Coates said yesterday, vowing they will be the “Games that conquered Covid”.
The series of buy-bust operations Monday in Negros Occidental led to the arrest of five more drug suspects and the recovery of about P22,000 worth of suspected shabu.
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN More uniformed and non-uniformed personnel (NUP) of the Police Regional Office 6 have tested positive for Covid-19, regional police spokesperson, Lt. Col. Joem Malong, said yesterday. Of the 51 PRO-6 personnel infected by the virus, Malong
Major Gen. Juvymax Uy, a Negrense, is back in Mindanao as commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.
Oil companies will slash petroleum prices as much as P2 per liter today. In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Jetti, Seaoil, and Shell said they will roll back gasoline prices by P2 per liter and will also cut diesel prices by
As per monitoring of Power Watch Negros, the application of the Negros Electric and Power Corp. (NEPC) for a legislative franchise, as embodied in H.B. No. 9805, had already passed the preliminary phase of the complex legislative labyrinth in the
Property giant Megaworld is ramping up its leasing portfolio until 2030 in order to reach 3,000,000 square meters of gross leasable area (GLA) for both Megaworld Premier Offices and Megaworld Lifestyle Malls. This is 52 percent higher than the company’s
About four tons of trash were collected along the coastal barangay of Punta Taytay following the coastal cleanup drive initiated by Abomar Equipment Sales Corporation with student volunteers on Friday, May 3. More than 200 volunteers from Sum-ag National High
• CARLO LEONARDIA When one thinks of the new Bistro Group restaurants in Bacolod City, the first to come to mind would probably be Italianni’s and TGI Fridays, as that is what they are most known for. However, the group
In a bid to enhance public transportation and promote eco-friendly travel options, the City of Bacolod, with the initiative of Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, will launch a green route dry run featuring electric jeeps (e-jeeps) starting May 15 until May
