There is no doubt that for most of us, 2020 absolutely sucked. It sucked not only because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the year 2020 also revealed how the government officials we ultimately elected in 2016 proved
If Ripley of the famous “Believe it or not” cartoons were still around, he would have found a very salable item by quoting the outgoing president of the United States for telling the officials of Georgia to “find votes” to
The Department of Labor and Employment is at the verge of rolling out a three-year national recovery plan to generate jobs for the millions of workers displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The national employment strategy is scheduled for implementation by
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday that he had signed a non-disclosure agreement with a pharmaceutical company to purchase vaccines, worth P30 million, against the coronavirus disease 2019. While he did not elaborate on
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Forty-eight locally stranded individuals from Manila and Cebu arrived in Bacolod City via Roll-on Roll-off vessels after the moratorium on their return lapsed on Sunday. Councilor Cindy Rojas, who is in charge of the returning
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Philippine National Police is investigating two reported incidents of illegal discharge of firearms on New Year’s Eve in the cities of Bacolod and Talisay in Negros Occidental. P/Lt. Abegael Donasco, deputy spokesperson of the Negros
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III A laborer died when he was electrocuted in Brgy. 9, Bacolod City past 10 a.m. yesterday. Police Station 1 chief, P/Maj. Jovil Sedel, identified the fatality as Saner Perez, 41, of Gonzaga Extension, Bacolod. Sedel
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Businessman Leo Rey Yanson was reappointed chairman of the Board and president of Ceres Liner Travel and Tours Inc. (CLTTI), during its annual stockholders’ meeting yesterday at its principal office in Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City. A
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN You cannot choose your opponent. This was the reply yesterday of Gov. Eugenio Jose “Bong” Lacson to reports that somebody may challenge him for his position in the 2022 national and local elections. Lacson said he
VIRTUAL LOB. The Bago City Information Office pays tribute to winning Lights of Bago photos since 2012, including this entry of Ruel Cadigal in 2020 as posted on The Citybridge FB, after the 13th edition did not push through this year due to Covid-19*
“Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.” (Jn 16,32) These words
“That they may be one, as we also are one.” (Jn 17,11) Words of Christ just before he entered into the culminating act of human redemption, expressing his greatest desire for us. We have to realize that this is the
• 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 deflect underground organizations’ “terrorist-grooming” efforts where select individual victims are systematically recruited and radicalized through
• 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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Twelve former rebels who surrendered to the 62nd Infantry Battalion and police in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, have availed of financial aid, through the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation of the Department of Social Welfare
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 Pambansa in Cebu on July to “contribute medals” to the cause of the region. Lacson
