BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said yesterday that the three remaining Delta variant-infected residents of Pulupandan, Valladolid, and La Carlota City tested negative in repeat swab tests. “They will be sent home,” Diaz said. The 9-year-old boy
The joint launching of the 24/7 vaccination center and the third mobile vaccination unit at the Jollibee branch at Gatuslao-Burgos Streets in Bacolod City Monday* Bacolod PIO photo
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A new twist in politics is about to take place in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, after incumbent Mayor Alejandro Mirasol yesterday announced that his wife, Mary Ann, will be his running mate in the May 2022 elections.
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN / ADRIAN P. NEMES III Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, yesterday ordered a thorough probe into the killing of a police officer, who was actively involved in the anti-drug campaign of the Bacolod
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III More isolation facilities in Bacolod City are being prepared in anticipation of sudden surge of Covid-19 cases, executive director Em Ang of the Emergency Operations Center said yesterday. Ang said that, based on the opinion
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III The General Alliance of Workers Association is supporting the plight of frontliners nationwide in calling for the release of their delayed payment for Special Risk Allowance, Meal Accommodation and Transportation Allowance, hazard pay, and other
The re-election bids of Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Vice-Governor Jeffrey Ferrer got a further boost yesterday, after Murcia Mayor Victor Gerardo Rojas also expressed his full support for their candidacies. “With Lacson and Ferrer at the helm,
A proposal seeking to end child marriages in the country has hurdled second reading at the House of Representatives. During plenary session yesterday, the chamber passed through voice voting House Bill 9943, which seeks to protect children by prohibiting and
Especially when we find ourselves in some difficult, if not impossible, situations, we should readily go to Christ to seek at least some relief. He always gives it, perhaps not in the form we want, but always in a way
A report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that the slow rollout of Covid-19 vaccines will cost the global economy $2.3 trillion in lost output and emerging and developing economies whose vaccine rollouts are far behind those of wealthier
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Police Regional Office 6 reported that it arrested 29 drug suspects and recovered P5.1 million worth of suspected shabu in Western Visayas, during 24-hour police operations on May 10. Of the 29 arrested suspects, seven
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration has recently announced that the worst of the El Niño heat may be over, but with the caveat that Filipinos should now brace themselves for an expected La Niña, which could make
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An Army general has reiterated that the 3rd Infantry Division does not engage in “red tagging,” which he stressed is not a government policy. Maj. Gen. Marion Sison, 3ID commander, disclosed that the information presented to
“That they may be one, as we also are one.” (Jn 17,11) Words of Christ just before he entered into the culminating act of human redemption, expressing his greatest desire for us. We have to realize that this is the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Stressing that the police force in Western VIsayas is a very professional one, PBrig. Gen. Jack Wanky, regional police director, yesterday said that there is no need to conduct a loyalty check. For us here, I
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,
