It is both good and inspiring to know that, despite the fearsome threat of the COVID pandemic, sports officials as well as players all over the world are still upbeat about holding the Olympic Games this year. Nothing can inspire
The Philippine Statistics Authority reported that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, shot up to 4.2 percent year-on-year, rising by their fastest level in two years in January. Inflation overshot government expectations as the surge in food costs
A resident receives flu vaccine at the Covid vaccination dry run in Brgy. Villamonte gym yesterday as Mayor Evelio Leonardia, Dr. Chris Sorongon, Councilor Renecito Novero, Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, and EOC executive director Em Ang look on*
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Business Process Outsourcing firm Transcom Bacolod was finally given the go signal by the Emergency Operations Center to resume operations on Monday, almost a week after their onsite work was halted due to the Covid
The city government of Bacolod, led by Mayor Evelio Leonardia, hosted an appreciation ceremony for seven volunteers of the Emergency Operations Center Task Force at the Bacolod City Government Center lobby Thursday night. The volunteers include Drs. Chris Sorongon and
The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is requesting the Department of Public Works and Highways-Bacolod Engineering District, through district engineer Abraham Villareal, to expedite the road construction repair works along the Circumferential Road near the Bacolod City Government Center. A resolution, authored
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Another Negros Occidental policeman is now in hot water after he tested positive for use of illegal drugs, regional police spokesperson, Lt. Col. Joem Malong, said. This brought to two the number of Negros Occidental police
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Philippine National Police will sign a memorandum of agreement on Feb. 7 for the rehabilitation and protection of 40 hectares of the Northern Negros Natural Park (NNNP)
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A private firm may start dredging the heavily silted rivers in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental, as soon as it complies with the requirements needed, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday. Lacson, who presided over the inter-agency
The cities of Talisay, Silay, and Victorias received P1 million in cash assistance each, and the municipality of EB Magalona, P500,000, from the Bacolod City government, through executive assistant to the mayor Jose Maria Vargas, yesterday. Vargas, with Administration and
Property giant Megaworld is ramping up its leasing portfolio until 2030 in order to reach 3,000,000 square meters of gross leasable area (GLA) for both Megaworld Premier Offices and Megaworld Lifestyle Malls. This is 52 percent higher than the company’s
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
• 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
An award-winning filmmaker and longtime educator has been recently appointed by the Bacolod City Government as director of its film festival, set to be held this September in select cinemas in the city. The Bacolod Film Festival Council (BFFC), chaired
• 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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN There is no stopping from the provincial government of Negros Occidental as it pursues its bulk water project, amid opposition from members of the Silay City Sangguniang Panlungsod and sugar planters, as confirmed by Mayor Joedith
