BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Seven Negros Occidental solons and three other Iloilo lawmakers are pushing for congressional inquiry on the power rates hike of various electric cooperatives in Western Visayas. Negros Occidental Third District Rep. Jose Francisco Benitez yesterday said
Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia made an appeal before the Energy Regulatory Commission to immediately look into the increase in power rates in service areas under the Central Negros Electric Cooperative. Leonardia also sought the help of ERC chairperson Agnes
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Members of the Medical Frontliners Alliance of Negros (MFAN) will be joining a nationally coordinated protest on September 21 calling for the resignation of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III for failure of the government to grant
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Police have filed charges for illegal possession of firearms and explosives against a top cadre and two members of the New People’s Army who were captured by government troopers during an encounter on September 14 in
The Tinagong Dagat at Mt. Mandalagan in Silay City, Negros Occidental, is off limits to trekkers, for now.* Pusoy Maquiling photo
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Six unidentified armed men shot and killed a laborer on September 15 in Sitio Tabuan, Brgy. San Isidro, EB Magalona, Negros Occidental. Initial police investigations showed that six armed men dragged the victim identified as Dionesio
Since sorrows are unavoidable in our life, we should know how to deal with it properly, even taking advantage of it, for it indeed can help us attain our ultimate goal in life, which is our own salvation, our own
The global shortage in COVID-19 vaccines will push the country’s target for achieving herd immunity beyond the first quarter of 2022, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez revealed during the Senate deliberations on the proposed P5.02 trillion national budget for next year.
Carlos Hilado Memorial State College turned over 500 sets of Personal Protective Equipment to its institutional partners who are in the frontline of the ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in a ceremony held on September 16, 2021, at the
The National Task Force Against Covid-19, along with Metro Manila mayors, have started their preparations for the expansion of the Covid-19 vaccination program to the younger population, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said yesterday. Galvez said the so-called vaccination
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday called for a prompt and peaceful resolution to the recent seizure by Iranian authorities of a Portuguese-flagged container ship, which included four Filipino seafarers among its crew, a press release from the House of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN United Negros Alliance president, Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer, yesterday said that they have already made their choice on their vice gubernatorial bet, the running mate of Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, that UNegA will field during the
The E.B. Magalona Pavilion at the Panaad Park has been spruced up and is ready for visitors and festival-goers when the 28th edition of the Panaad sa Negros Festival kicks off today. Mayor Marvin Malacon invited everyone to visit the
BEAUTIES. The presentation of Lin-ay sang Negros 2024 candidates during the opening ceremony of the Panaad sa Negros Festival.* Capitol PIO photo
That’s what we can gather from the readings of the Mass on Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter. (Acts 8,1-8; Jn 6,35-40) Whatever negative things we can encounter along the way, the good, which is a matter of believing
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Almost P1 million worth of suspected shabu and an unlicensed firearm were seized by the police in separate buy bust operations in four cities of Negros Occidental, also leading to the arrest of four drug suspects.
