BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Another policeman assigned in Negros Occidental died due to Covid-19 on June 26, deputy provincial police spokesperson, P/Lt. Abegael Donasco, confirmed yesterday. Donasco said the 42-year-old police officer was assigned at a police station in southern
QUARTERS. The P10.7 million quarters of officers of the 542nd Engineer Construction (Pathfinder) Battalion of the Philippine Army in Brgy. Caradio-an, Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental is expected to be completed next month*
Most of last weekend was spent in nostalgia as my wife and I dealt with the sudden loss of former president Noynoy Aquino that reminded us of an era that felt like a lifetime ago, when this country’s leader could
I know I have quoted this before, but some events happening now seem to confirm more than ever the old saying that “It’s an ill wind that blows no good”. Not that I am giving credit to the pandemic that
The latest annual world drug report has found that around 275 million people used illegal drugs in the last year of unprecedented upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, up by 22 percent from 2010 and it is “business as usual”
The country’s top cop ordered yesterday an accounting of all dismissed drug cases since 2016 as part of the “intensified cleanliness policy”. “Having data and information on these dismissed drug cases since the war on drugs started in 2016 would
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III yesterday administered the country’s 10 millionth dose of Covid-19 vaccine to 74-year-old Nieves Catacutan in a ceremonial vaccination in Valenzuela City that highlights the government’s vaccination program. Catacutan, a resident of Barangay Gen. De Leon,
The Carlos Hilado Memorial State College was among the 19 state universities and colleges that received a P23 million grant for its Smart Campus Development Project, during a press conference on smart campus projects and updates on limited face-to-face classes,
The Department of Agriculture has approved the calibrated distribution of 70 percent or 140,000 metric tons of pork meat to address the supply gap. The meat supply will arrive starting July to October, according to the DA’s minimum access volume
The Build it Big Community of Usana Health Sciences Bacolod donated 30 electric fans to the Emergency Operations Center yesterday for the use of Covid patients in 13 quarantine facilities of the City. Four each will be turned over to
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Negros Museum in Bacolod City is hosting an all-women Korean art exhibition from April 19 to 22. Bacolod Councilor Em Ang, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on History, Culture and Arts, was guest of
The Mixed 2012 of Montevista ES ranked first in round one of Mundial de Futbol, Inter Continental Soccer qualifiers held in conjunction with Gardenville United Football Club Inc., at Megaworld’s The Upper East on April 20-21. In the Girls 2009
A total of 134 applicants for student driver’s permit in E.B. Magalona and neighboring cities, finished the two-day Theoretical Driving Course Seminar conducted at the town’s Public Plaza on April 25 and 26. The applicants yesterday received a certificate of
Silliman University, through the Culture and Arts Council (CAC), is set to host a national music and culture summit that aims to convene music leaders and practitioners from various fields of music in the Philippines on May 15-17. With the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Another member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1991 joined his classmates in their assignments in the Visayas region, as a commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Visayas Command. In his assumption of the
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is taking proactive steps to protect its pensioners from the dangers of extreme heat following PAGASA’s warning of unprecedented temperatures reaching up to 46 degrees Celsius in 24 areas across the country. Old-Age and
