BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Border restrictions in the provinces of Western Visayas, including Negros Occidental, will be among the measures to be strictly imposed to prevent the entry of the African swine fever (ASF) that has affected parts of
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Some 3,000 residents of Bacolod City will undergo the first surveillance testing for 2021 that started yesterday until Feb. 15, to ensure that they are free from coronavirus disease 2019. Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Households that have been affected by granular lockdowns in Bacolod City will receive assistance, worth P18 million, soon. This was after the list of about 6,000 low-income-earner families, who were locked down from Sept. 11
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Three fugitives, including a senior citizen, who are facing rape and murder cases, were accounted for in separate manhunt operations in Negros Occidental on Wednesday. Ranny Panaligan, of Brgy. Alangilan in Bacolod City, one of the
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Provincial Legal Office was ordered by Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday to take legal action against three returning residents of Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, for misdeclaration, for not stating that they came from the United Kingdom.
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson urged the Negros Occidental police officers yesterday to be legal and moral troops. In dealing with problems involving criminality, illegal drugs, and insurgency, Lacson said that while the task of policemen and
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The management of Vallacar Transit Inc. assured the public yesterday of normal operations of buses plying the Bacolod-Victorias-Bacolod route, amid the holding of a picket by about 20 disgruntled drivers and fare collectors. VTI media relations
VISIT. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat is toured around the Art District in Bacolod City by artist Charlie Co in this photo posted by Silay Mayor Mark Golez on his FB page yesterday*
My wife and I stayed up Wednesday night to watch the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, the 46th president of the United States of America and his Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman of color and South Asian descent
Where were the others? Like many other Filipinos, I watched with interest the change of administration in the United States, where Joseph R. Biden took over the presidency from Donald Trump. But like those others also following the TV coverage,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An Army general has reiterated that the 3rd Infantry Division does not engage in “red tagging,” which he stressed is not a government policy. Maj. Gen. Marion Sison, 3ID commander, disclosed that the information presented to
A team from the DOST- Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), led by Fenina Osorio, paid a courtesy visit to Mayor Marvin Malacon on Monday, in the middle of their data collection for the National Nutrition Survey in Barangay Manta-angan,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Stressing that the police force in Western VIsayas is a very professional one, PBrig. Gen. Jack Wanky, regional police director, yesterday said that there is no need to conduct a loyalty check. For us here, I
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade strongly condemned the killing spree of innocent civilians carried out and admitted by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. These acts of violence are not only abhorrent, but also a
• 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 The month long anti-illegal operations in Negros Occidental, including the highly urbanized Bacolod City, has led to the arrest 246 persons, according to reports of the Police Regional Office 6. Among the arrested suspects, a total
