BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said 3,328 of 4,051 barangays in the whole of Western Visayas, which is equivalent to 82 percent, are already drug-cleared. Barangays Batea and Pasil in EB Magalona, and Sebucauan in Isabela,
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson issued executive orders yesterday, extending the duration of the Modified General Community Quarantine status in the city and the province until May 31. Bacolod City
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Additional 7,500 doses of China-made Sinovac vaccines are expected to arrive in Bacolod City today for 3,750 residents, City Administrator Em Ang, the executive director of the Emergency Operations Center, said. Ang said that as
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III More than 50 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) and 47 policemen of Bacolod City have tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019, as of yesterday. Executive director Em Ang of the City Emergency Operations Center
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III A resolution, favorably endorsing the use of a certain portion of the city’s property as residential area in Purok Neptune, Brgy. Singcang Airport, in Bacolod City, was unanimously approved by members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN More than eight years after the infamous massacre of nine civilians, barangay tanods and policemen, the responsibility for which was claimed by the New People’s Army in Brgy. Puso, La Castellana, Negros Occidental in 2013, Mayor
CONSTRUCTION. The ongoing construction of the 5MVA Calatrava substation of the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative that will soon serve the municipalities of Calatrava and Toboso* Noneco photo
Sorry if I have to bring up this topic. But we cannot deny that, nowadays, this addiction to pornography is getting widespread. It is now all over the place, even affecting little children. We have to do something drastic about
A bill that will make vaccination mandatory has been filed. Any objections? But we have heard some people complaining that it would be an infringement on their freedom of choice. Do you agree with them? Indeed, they can claim that
In response to Senate Bill No. 2121, or the Act Defining and Penalizing Red-Tagging filed by Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon last month, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra expressed support for the push to declare Red-tagging as a criminal offense. “(Criminalizing
This is what we can get from the readings of the Mass on the 6th Sunday of Easter, Year B. (cfr. Acts 10,25-26.34-35.44-48; 1Jn 4,7-10; Jn 15,9-17) The true love that can only come and is a sharing of the
• YASMIN PASCUAL-DORMIDO The University of St. La Salle won the 1st Negros Island Private Schools Athletic Association (NIPRISAA) perpetual trophy, having won the most number of medals (209) to end up as the first champion of the recently-concluded sports
These words of Christ were addressed to Philip, the apostle, who asked Christ to show him the Father after Christ said that he was “the way, the truth and the life” and that no one can go to the Father
When there exists a new and a potentially powerful weapon that can be easily deployed during this golden age of disinformation that we live in, most politicos and their operators would probably prefer to turn a blind eye to it,
Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said the government is sticking to its revenue collection target for now, adding that he is hopeful that the double-digit growth in the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) collections will be sustained until the end of
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution authorizing Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez to designate barangay health workers of Bacolod City as Barangay-level Health Education and Promotion Officers (HEPOs) for implementation of health promotion policies, programs, and activities in the community, was
