Preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas showed the banking system was only able to allocate about 10.18 percent of its total loanable funds for agriculture and agrarian reform from January to September, falling way below the 25 percent
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III The registration process for Bacolod residents, who want to be vaccinated against Covid-19, is now ongoing, Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical and data analysis of the city Emergency Operations Center Task Force, said. Sorongon
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The provincial government of Negros Occidental has issued an appeal to the Bacolod City government for common protocols for returning residents. Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz aired the concern of the provincial government on the “different protocols”
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental will remain under the Modified General Community Quarantine status until Feb. 28 this year, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said in Executive Order No. 21-05 that he issued yesterday. Lacson added that the province had
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The House of Representatives approved on second reading Wednesday House Bill No. 8385, that consolidated several bills promoting urban agriculture, including HB 3412 authored by Rep. Francisco Benitez (Neg. Occ., 3rd district). Benitez headed the technical
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The city government of San Carlos in Negros Occidental is offering livelihood assistance to overseas Filipino workers, who have been retrenched, or failed to return to work because of the Covid-19 pandemic. As much as P15,000
A three-storey hemodialysis center, worth P19.5 million, will soon rise at the Ignacio L. Arroyo Memorial District Hospital in the municipality of Isabela in Negros Occidental. Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, Rep. Ma. Lourdes Arroyo (Neg. Occ., 5th District), and Isabela
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III More than half a million-peso was poured in by the Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office for their simultaneous veterinary relief operations as part of the disaster recovery efforts in flood stricken-areas in the third district.
KEEPING AN EYE ON. The monitoring network of Kanlaon Volcano recorded three volcanic earthquakes during the 24-hour observation period, and weak emission of white steam-laden plumes was observed, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in its bulletin yesterday*
I have too many hobbies. Most of them cater to my girls interests. I have made them a cardboard dollhouse, and I am completing the handmade furniture inside. I have been painting peg dolls to live in said dollhouse. There
With the celebration of Pentecost Sunday, we are reminded that the Holy Spirit is always with us, always intervening and directing our life toward its proper end and its fullness or perfection. He is leading us toward how we should
BOOKWORMS. Preschoolers at the National Child Development Center in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental peruse the recently donated books from the Regional English Language Office – U.S. Embassy, through the office of Neg. Occ. Third District Rep. Jose Francisco Benitez.* Kiko Benitez FB photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN As another municipality was added to the list of local government units placed under a state of calamity because of the drought, the damage to rice, corn, high value commercial crops (HVCC), and fisheries brought about
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN About P2.8 million worth of suspected shabu was seized by authorities from two arrested drug suspects, during a buy bust operation on Thursday at South Circumferential Road, in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City. The joint operations of
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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The franchise being sought by the Negros Electric Power Corporation from the Senate has been granted. During its plenary session yesterday, presided over by Senate president Juan Miguel Zubiri, the NEPC franchise, or House Bill number
