The Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) assured of stable supply of fisheries as the three months closed fishing season will start in November.
Seven persons were apprehended for allegedly engaging in illegal gambling in Purok Tulihaw, Barangay 16 in Bacolod City, at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday.
Of course there are other reports and issues in the news today. But I am sure that for basketball fans, it didn’t matter who won the speakership of the House of Representatives. But the Los Angeles Lakers again won the championship in the 2020 series of the NBA games. I am sure the team was further inspired by the thought of their former lead man, Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash together with his young daughter earlier this year. Wherever he is now, I am sure Kobe was smiling down at his team as they trounced the Miami Heat with the score of 106-93. I can imagine him clapping his hands and calling out “Well done, Boys!”
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Negros Occidental will construct its building in Silay City soon.
The province of Negros Oriental has logged two new recoveries from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and four new positive cases.
Negros Occidental has 141 new COVID-19 cases and Bacolod City has 25, the Department of Health reported yesterday.
While the Philippine government strategy for fighting the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has been to wait for a COVID-19 vaccine, significant work has to be done to undo the long-term damage wrought by the politically motivated campaign that targeted the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia that is seen as one of the main drivers of plummeting child immunization rates in the country.
The Army’s 302nd Infantry Brigade stationed in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, will soon have a new commander.
The Bacolod City Legal Office-Enforcement Unit and market supervisors inspected vendors of the three major public markets in the city yesterday to determine how many complied and how many had not participated in the COVID-19 surveillance testing conducted Saturday.
A 54-year-old member of the New People’s Army and his teen-warrior son have abandoned the armed struggle and surrendered firearms to the 94th Infantry Battalion in Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, its spokesman, Capt. Oliver Usog, said yesterday.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The United Negros Alliance (UNegA) is set to hold its general assembly this month, as the political party gears up for
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The El Niño-induced drought continues to wreak havoc on rice and corn crops in Negros Occidental, as damage reported by the
Mayor Raymund Tongson brought honor to Himamaylan City as he received the award as Best Oral Presenter in the recently concluded 2nd International Conference for
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Stressing that they have enough funds to help their drought affected residents, Mayor John Rey Tabujara announced yesterday that they will
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution authorizing Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez to designate barangay health workers of Bacolod City as Barangay-level Health Education and Promotion
VIGIL PROTEST. Lilian Sembrano (inset), president of Kabakod Negros Transport Coalition (KNETCO), with traditional jeepney drivers and operators, during a vigil at the Bacolod City Government Center grounds as part of their 2-day transport strike against the phase out of traditional jeepneys, which will culminate today at the Bacolod City Diamond Jubilee Tower (NGC replica) at Araneta Street, Bacolod City* CGS photo
