BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Provincial Health Office of Negros Occidental has been tasked to study the possibility of administering Covid-19 booster shots to health workers vaccinated with Sinovac to strengthen their resistance against the highly contagious Delta variant, using
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negative RT-PCR test results are again required of all travelers, including those fully vaccinated against the Covid-19, to be allowed entry to Negros Occidental, following the increasing cases of the highly-contagious Delta variant. Negros Occidental Gov.
The two-storey Balay Silangan facility in Bacolod City was inaugurated and blessed Wednesday afternoon* City PIO photo
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III “We will still be under General Community Quarantine with heightened restrictions until July 31,” Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia, who issued Executive Order 41 series of 2021 yesterday, said. Leonardia said all provisions of EO 39
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Bacolod has already administered 90,942 vaccines as of Monday with 24,040 of them for the full inoculation of city residents, the Emergency Operations Center said yesterday. Of the number, 67,269 were with China-made Sinovac vaccines
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III Health protocol violators in Bacolod City had reached 27,941 as of Sunday, P/Lt. Col. Lester Leada, who heads the City Police Office Operations Branch, said yesterday. Of the number, 6,610 were reprimanded for violating the
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The municipalities of EB Magalona and Murcia, and Victorias City got new ambulances to further bolster the delivery of basic health services in their communities. Mayor Marvin Malacon said yesterday that EB Magalona received two ambulances
Political parties are everywhere in this country and now that the election season is on the horizon once again, many of these Machiavellian alliances that are driven by personal and selfish interests will be renewed or broken after being tested
How do we find topics to write on that could remove people’s minds from this pandemic? Sometimes, I think it is something next to impossible, but one could try, can’t one? Well, for one, I have been getting calls and
In a recently held virtual meeting with five other Asian agriculture ministers, Agriculture Secretary William Dar cited the need for regional and international collaboration in the agriculture sector in a bid to build more sustainable food systems. As he acknowledged
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental and Bacolod City are hosting the 2024 Western Visayas Regional Athletics Association meet on May 2 to 7, where a total of 4,756 athletes and officials all over the region are expected to participate.
Local athletes, sports standouts, coaches and school heads from twelve private universities and colleges in Negros island will converge at STI West Negros University in Bacolod City, to compete in various sports and cultural events in the 1st Negros Island
That’s “Go forth, the Mass is ended” in Latin. With these words, we are reminded that all of us who attend Mass are being sent forth the way Christ sent his apostles to “go into the whole world and proclaim
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An alleged member of the New People’s Army recently surrendered to the Philippine National Police in Talisay City, Negros Occidental. Through the combined efforts of police intelligence operatives of the Talisay City and Murcia Police Stations,
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO An ordinance establishing the Bacolod Waterfront Park, providing for park hours, permissible and prohibited activities, and providing penalties for violations, was passed on first reading by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) Wednesday. The ordinance authored by
We should not be too surprised and bothered by this phenomenon. Given our human limitations and weaknesses, this predicament can take place anytime and often. What we need to do is to go immediately to God, ask for pardon and
