The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) formally launched its new international marketing campaign “Make It Happen in the Philippines”, highlighting five key investment priority sectors. It is a unified, country-wide, and multi-sector investment campaign that aims to
Football legend Diego Armando Maradona died Wednesday, suffering cardiac arrest at home in Tigre, Argentina. He was 60. The Argentine football legend underwent successful surgery on November 4 for a blood clot in his brain, his doctor Leopoldo
Hit miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit” has led to a surge of interest in chess, with one popular website registering millions of new players and academies reporting unprecedented demand. Netflix said the show, which follows the turbulent career of
TNT seemingly caught Phoenix Super LPG by surprise their last time out. The question of whether the Tropang Giga could continue to take the Fuel Masters off-guard or the latter would be more ready would be known tonight
PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart will ramp up broadband and data services by adding two more fiber cable landing stations in the country next year. In a statement, PLDT chairman and chief executive officer, Manuel Pangilinan, said
The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has assured stable supply of fish until yearend despite the series of typhoons that hit the fisheries sector. DA Undersecretary for Agri-Industrialization and for Fisheries, Cheryl Caballero, in a
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday ordered private companies to release the deferred holiday pay of their workers before the end of the year. “This advisory shall apply to all employers in the private sector which
The provincial government-run Negros First Food Terminal market at the North Capitol Road in Bacolod City is now open to the public, after 19 of its employees and security guards were tested negative for Covid-19, Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has named Negros Occidental Rep. Francisco Benitez among the 21-member contingent to the bicameral conference committee on the proposed P4.506-trillion national budget for 2021. Velasco said the House contingent will make sure the 2021
• 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
ASSISTANCE. Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson distributed a total of P415,000 cash assistance to 47 families affected by recent fire incidents in Negros Occidental, and 17 Child Development Workers from various local government units, who retired from last year, at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall in Bacolod City.* Capitol PIO photo
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution congratulating and commending Hanna Joy Sayam for winning the grand prize in the figurative category of the Sining Filipina Art Competition held at Taguig City last March 22, was approved by the Bacolod Sangguniang
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN PrimeWater, with joint venture partner Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA), presented their water management initiatives to address the increasing challenges in water supply in Bacolod City, during a recent hearing of the Sangguniang Panlungsod. The partnership
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Two policemen assigned in Negros Occidental are now facing a probe for allegedly receiving protection money from financiers of illegal gambling. PLt. Col. Arnel Solis, spokesman of the Police Regional Office 6, disclosed yesterday that the
