BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Five incumbent kagawads of Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City have filed a complaint before the Office of the President and the Criminal and Investigation Group against suspended Barangay Captain Noli Villarosa and four officials and employees of
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia has ordered the City Permits and Licensing Office not to issue any business permit or license to operate any activity or event in line with the Bacolaodiat Festival 2021, that has
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III There are now 2,745 out of 287,383 voters in Bacolod who have been delisted for various reasons, Commission on Elections City Registrar Kathrina Trinio told the DAILY STAR yesterday. Of that number, 1,167 are deceased,
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 3rd Infantry Division slammed the New People’s Army yesterday after it owned up to the killing of a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental last month. Maj.
The Tuburan Port in EB Magalona will serve as a service port for a barge and dredging equipment of a private firm tasked to declog heavily silted waterways in the town* Gilbert Bayoran photo
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Yanson 4 siblings also conducted a stockholders’ meeting of Rural Transit (Mindanao) Inc., on Feb. 10, at the Seda Centrio Hotel in Cagayan de Oro, with Roy V. Yanson elected as chairman of the board
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III “Shellfish in Negros Occidental is safe to eat,” Marian Jill Abeto, provincial head of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources assured yesterday, following reports of several areas in the country hit by red tide.
One issue that the Covid-19 pandemic and our government’s preferred response of the indefinite and vague roulette of quarantine status and restrictions has exposed is the lack of public spaces in this country. We are now approaching the anniversary of
Serves him right! I am referring to the president of the Olympic Games who had to resign when les girls went figuratively up in arms when he was quoted as saying “Women talk too much!” How dare he! But just
This year, as a huge chunk of humanity strives to welcome the year of the Metal Ox in the safest way possible, Bacolod City, for one, will not be celebrating with the Bacoloadiat Festival as officials bid to control the
• 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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The granting of a franchise to the Negros Electric Power Corp., to maintain an electric power distribution in key localities of Negros Occidental, is steadily inching towards approval by the Philippine Senate. The Senate approved on
Coast Guard personnel rescuing six fishermen from a capsized boat off the coastline of Silay City in Negros Occidental.* PCG photo
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 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 Department of Trade and Industry reported that a 60-day price freeze was imposed in 31 local government units in Western Visayas, either due to El Niño or Pertussis outbreak. Out of the 31 declarations of
