Two alleged rebels belonging to the New People’s Army Special Partisan Unit (SPARU) and organizing team surrendered to the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 6 in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, regional police spokesperson, Lt. Col. Joem Malong, said last night.
Long queues of vehicles at various border check-up points in Bacolod City were noted yesterday as authorities strictly implemented stringent measures following a spike in Covid-19 cases in the city.
Bacolod Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. is urging the Bacolod City government to immediately build adequate make-shift hospitals and a negative-pressurized isolation facility using funds from the P800 million budget set aside for the construction of the Bacolod Coliseum.
Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran and 13 other members of his household tested negative for COVID-19, except for his 9-year-old granddaughter who is asymptomatic.
Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, after testing negative for COVID-19, said he returned to work at the Governor’s Office at the Capitol in Bacolod City yesterday.
Mayor Nicholas Yulo has locked down the entire Barangay Ma-ao and six puroks of Barangay Don Jorge L. Araneta in Bago City with a combined population of 7,010 that have experienced a spike in COVID-19 cases.
President Rodrigo Duterte last night approved the recommendation to place Bacolod City under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine to curb the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the city.
One good and positive aspect of any crisis we may be having, like what we have these days with this COVID pandemic, is that it is actually a good occasion to see how we are as a person, a child of God, a citizen, a leader, etc.
Checkpoints are up again all over the place, especially in Bacolod City that has been forced to reinstate the Home Quarantine Pass solution once more in a desperate bid to do something about the surge of coronavirus disease 2019 cases.
There oughtta be a law! That was the title of a comic strip that used to appear in some daily newspapers years ago. What I believe we should have is a law that would hasten its decisions on cases brought to them is the Commission on Audit after a news report announced that it had cleared officials of a case that had been pending with it for eight long years! Can you imagine the anxiety and the sleepless nights of those involved, knowing that they are not guilty, but because false charges filed by their political opponents have kept them worrying all those years?
Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson called on athletes of the province who will be part of the delegation of Western Visayas to the Palarong
Negros Occidental has the biggest share of the food packs distributed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to El Niño-affected families in Western
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution congratulating and commending Hanna Joy Sayam for winning the grand prize in the figurative category of the Sining Filipina
• 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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) claims that accusations of “red tagging” are only meant to
Farmers in the 5th district of Negros Occidental have availed of P11.8 million in rice and corn agricultural inputs, from the provincial government headed by
