The curious case of flight attendant Christine Dacera, who died after a New Year’s party in a Makati hotel, has captured the nation’s imagination, distracting Filipinos from the uproar caused by the Presidential Security Group vaccination scandal that welcomed the
We are already well into January but the United States is still counting the votes cast in their November elections. Maybe that is inevitable if you have an opponent like Donald Trump who does not know how to admit defeat
The Department of Education directed public and private elementary and high schools to establish and strengthen child protection committees to help address online sexual abuse and exploitation of children, and reports of rampant child pornography online during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia (center) shows a copy of the multi-lateral and confidentiality agreement he signed with AstraZeneca on the availment of vaccines against Covid, as witnessed by Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran and City Administrator Em Ang (seated, l-r); and Drs. Hector Gayares and Edwin Miraflor, City Legal Officer Joselito Bayatan, Councilor Renecito Novero, and Dr. Chris Sorongon (standing, l-r) at the Bacolod City Government Center yesterday*
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Victorias City in Negros Occidental has been also placed under a state of calamity, after this was approved yesterday during the session of its Sangguniang Panlungsod, as recommended by Mayor Francis Frederick Palanca. This was after
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Armed Forces of the Philippines and National Police in Western Visayas are extra vigilant and have already initiated pre-emptive operations against any possible deployment of New People’s Army assassins. While they have not monitored any
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office and the Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade dismissed yesterday as “fake news” the reported presence of members of the Moro National Liberation Front in Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, in November
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN & ADRIAN P. NEMES III The total crime volume in Negros Occidental went down by 34 percent last year, compared to 2019, provincial police deputy spokesperson, P/Lt. Abegael Donasco, said yesterday. It reduced from 1,371 in
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III There are no fake travel passes in Bacolod City, the City Police Office spokesperson, P/Lt. Col. Ariel Pico said yesterday amid reports that there are bogus travel passes circulating in some areas. Pico said that,
How did you spend the Christmas holidays? I hope you were surrounded by the people you love or had video calls with them if you weren’t together. I consider myself lucky to have been surrounded by family. We had made
Grace Pharmacy president Ian Manuel T. Lo, representing the Dr. Manuel Lo Foundation, generously donated 20,000 five-kilo bags of rice to Bacolod City. The turnover rites were held yesterday at the Bacolod City Government, and the rice donations were received
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An Army general yesterday challenged the Commission on Human Rights to condemn the killing spree of the New People’s Army of innocent civilians, which they have claimed responsibility for. In communicating with Chris Montano of the
As per monitoring of Power Watch Negros, the application of the Negros Electric and Power Corp. (NEPC) for a legislative franchise, as embodied in H.B. No. 9805, had already passed the preliminary phase of the complex legislative labyrinth in the
Oil companies will slash petroleum prices as much as P2 per liter today. In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Jetti, Seaoil, and Shell said they will roll back gasoline prices by P2 per liter and will also cut diesel prices by
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration has recently announced that the worst of the El Niño heat may be over, but with the caveat that Filipinos should now brace themselves for an expected La Niña, which could make
DEVOTION. Vendors selling devotional items across the San Vicente Ferrer Parish-Shrine, also known as “Vito Church” located at Barangay Vito in Sagay City, Negros Occidental.* Andrew Altarejos photo
