Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia yesterday said that like many hospitals, treatment facilities and local governments all over the country, Bacolod City is also losing a lot of health frontliners due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But Leonardia, in an interview with
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Commission on Elections VI has designated Sipalay Election Officer Adrian Arellano as acting election officer of Bacolod City from Sept. 21 to 25. Arellano was directed by Wilfredo Jay Balisado, Comelec regional director, to replace
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Movie actor and television personality Javier “Javi” Benitez, son of former Third District Rep. Alfredo Benitez, formally declared yesterday his bid for the mayoralty post of Victorias City in Negros Occidental. “I will be running for
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Talisay City Mayor Neil Lizares announced yesterday that he was also tested positive for COVID-19, making him the second mayor who attended the Love Negros fellowship on Sept. 18 to be infected by the virus. Lizares
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Power Watch Negros Advocates Inc. is opposing the holding of the 43rd Annual General Membership Assembly (AGMA) of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative on September 25 for possible violation of existing health and safety protocols
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Maj. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, newly-installed Army’s 3rd Infantry Division commander, yesterday encouraged the support of various stakeholders in the fight against the New People’s Army and the COVID-19 pandemic. “We should face both squarely. We should
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution requesting Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia to look into the plight of professional healthcare frontliners in Bacolod City to avert an imminent breakdown of the city’s healthcare services, was proposed by Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr.
A cow watches a motorcycle cross the river near the hanging bridge at Brgy. 1 in Moises Padilla town.* Nonoy Catugas/CCN photo
I find it amusing if it were not a disturbing and sad story. While Christ was already predicting his passion, death and resurrection, all that his apostles did was to discuss who among them was the greatest. (cfr. 9,30-37) This,
Forecasters at the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration are expecting the country to experience more rains due to a 70 to 80 percent chance for the La Niña weather phenomenon to form in the last quarter of the
The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD), the largest political party in the country, has forged an alliance with Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) to further promote people’s interests under the Bagong Pilipinas program of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr., a
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN About P2.8 million worth of suspected shabu was seized by authorities from two arrested drug suspects, during a buy bust operation on Thursday at South Circumferential Road, in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City. The joint operations of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN There is no stopping from the provincial government of Negros Occidental as it pursues its bulk water project, amid opposition from members of the Silay City Sangguniang Panlungsod and sugar planters, as confirmed by Mayor Joedith
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Twelve former rebels who surrendered to the 62nd Infantry Battalion and police in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, have availed of financial aid, through the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation of the Department of Social Welfare
“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
Farmers in the 5th district of Negros Occidental have availed of P11.8 million in rice and corn agricultural inputs, from the provincial government headed by Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson. Lacson and Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo, assisted by Mayor Rogelio Raymund
