Retired Maj. Gen. Melquiades Feliciano, Inter-Agency Task Force chief implementer for Visayas, urged barangay captains to intensify their monitoring of houses of COVID-19 patients in their barangays, during the launching of the One Hospital Command Center and the BacTrac Contact Tracing System at the Bacolod City Government Center lobby, yesterday.
About 2.4 kilos of suspected shabu, worth P24 million, were seized from three suspects during a buy-bust operation in Purok Datiles, Phase 4, in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City, at about 9 a.m. yesterday.
President Rodrigo Duterte Monday night placed Bacolod City under General Community Quarantine, while Negros Occidental and Oriental will remain under Modified GCQ in October.
John Riel Casimero remains the WBO bantamweight champion after knocking out Ghanian opponent Duke Micah on Sunday at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
It will be a compact tournament for the PBA Clark bubble with daily double-headers in the eliminations before shifting to the league’s regular Wednesday/Friday/Sunday schedule for the playoffs.
Rafael Nadal began his pursuit of a record-tying 20th men’s Grand Slam title with a straight-sets victory at the French Open while Serena Williams made a slow but successful start in her latest bid to equal Margaret Court’s all-time mark.
The inter-cropping of sugarcane and rice in Hinigaran town, the pilot area in Negros Occidental, yielded its first harvest in three months.
Provincial Veterinarian Renante Decena warned online sellers of pork products in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City against the spread of the African swine fever.
The Department of Agriculture yesterday said local government units (LGUs) bought some P2.6 billion worth of local farmers’ produce from the start of the community quarantine in March until September.
Tourism enterprises can now apply for accreditation online after the Department of Tourism yesterday launched its digital accreditation system.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The long arm of the law has finally caught up with a leader of a New People’s Army, who was allegedly involved in the death of Negrense soldier, PFC Rodelo Alfanza, following an encounter in Tubongan,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Thirty six anti-drug operations of the police in Western Visayas from April 20 to 26 led to the neutralization of 42 drug personalities, whose arrests yielded P8.7 million worth of illegal drugs. Of the 42 arrested
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Senator Grace Poe yesterday endorsed the granting of franchise to the Negros Electric Power Corp. to maintain an electric power distribution in key localities of Negros Occidental The endorsement was made by Poe, who chairs the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Visayas Command (VISCOM) is monitoring the unauthorized presence of a China-flagged Research/Survey Vessel named SHEN KUO, that was observed on April 30 in the vicinity of Sulat, Eastern Samar. It was first sighted in Rapu
She was giggling on her way to the stage, excited to perform in front of a jam-packed event center. She was all smiles while waiting for her father to give her the cue to hit the keyboards. That is five-year-old
Social Security System (SSS) President and Chief Executive Officer Rolando Ledesma Macasaet urged Filipino workers to be vigilant and regularly check if their contribution records are updated as the SSS pursued delinquent employers nationwide. Macasaet led the simultaneous Run After
