January 2021

Virtue signaling and gaslighting

We have to be wary of these tricks that news and opinion makers often use these days to push their ideas, agenda, or narrative. While it is good that they should set out their credentials to establish and strengthen their

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Good fences and good neighbors

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any name would smell as sweet”. That is one very famous line that has been quoted over the years, not only by poets themselves, but high school students as

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Ranked lowly

A study prepared by Sydney-based think tank Lowly Institute ranked the Philippines a pathetic 79th out of 98 countries in terms of coronavirus response. Ninety-eight countries were reviewed for their “average performance” over time in managing the Covid-19 pandemic, using

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NegOcc active cases down

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Covid-19 active cases in Negros Occidental dropped from 131 on Jan. 21, to 111, as of Jan. 28, with Valladolid and San Enrique towns noted to be consistent in having no new infections, the Provincial

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Negros hog raisers to stop sending supply to Manila

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Members of the Alliance of Hog Raisers Associations of Negros Occidental (AHRANO) have agreed to temporarily stop sending live pigs to Manila starting today, its president, Ric Lauron, said yesterday. Lauron said this is one solution

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Group appeals RTC ruling on Baciwa case

BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Water consumers’ group, Amlig Tubig, has filed a motion for reconsideration before the Court of Appeals on the recent ruling of a Regional Trial Court that upheld the dismissal of their petition to nullify the

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Guv cleared of fund misuse

The 3rd Division of the Sandiganbayan yesterday acquitted Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, along with provincial accountant Teodorico Reyes and former provincial treasurer Danilo Mendez, of graft charges for the alleged illegal use of the province’s calamity funds. Capitol Public

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Photo of the Day

MOVE IT. Brig. Gen. Rolando Miranda (center), director of the Police Regional Office 6, led personnel of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, headed by P/Col. Romy Palgue, to a four-minute fitness routine, during his visit to Camp Alfredo Montelibano Sr. in Bacolod City yesterday* NOCPPO photo

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Botticelli masterpiece sells for $92 million

A portrait by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli sold for $92 million at an online Sotheby’s auction Thursday, smashing the record price for the artist. “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” believed to have been painted in the 1470s or 1480s,

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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

Coastal cleanup at Punta Taytay beach

About four tons of trash were collected along the coastal barangay of Punta Taytay following the coastal cleanup drive initiated by Abomar Equipment Sales Corporation with student volunteers on Friday, May 3. More than 200 volunteers from Sum-ag National High

Always thinking of heaven and our earthly duties

On the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, we are reminded that we should always have heaven in mind, for that is where we came from and where we are supposed to go as our ultimate destination and to

Significant oil price rollback set

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

2 cops sacked, face illegal gambling payola probe

• 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

PFMC closer to securing ECC for Iloilo flour mill

Philippine Foremost Milling Corp. (PFMC), one of the country’s biggest flour companies, is one step closer to securing an Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC) for the construction of its modern flour milling facility in Barangay Ingore, Iloilo City, a press release