BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Energy Regulatory Commission, in response to complaints of Western Visayas electric consumers on significant increase in the electricity rates originating from the damaged submarine cable of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, ordered the
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital is hiring an additional 547 hospital staff with the approval of RA 11441 increasing the bed capacity of the regional hospital to 1,000 beds. Dr. Julius Drilon, CLMMRH Chief
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has issued a memorandum formally designating Valeriano M. Gatuslao Memorial District Hospital in Himamaylan City as COVID-19 center in Negros Occidental. This brings to three the number of COVID-19 facilities in the
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A mass swab testing among several Love Negros members, will be conducted on September 23 at the Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City, Negros Occidental, after two of its affiliated mayors tested positive for
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Three men were separately found dead in Negros Occidental on September 20 and 21, one of them killed in a shooting incident. Three unidentified armed men shot and killed Dionie Dada, 43, in Sitio Winaswasan, Brgy,
LOW LEVEL. The majestic Mount Kanlaon, the highest peak in Visayas, is currently under alert level 1 (low-level unrest) by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.* John Kimwell Laluma/CCN photo
To be truly Christian, we should be what Christ wants us to be—light of the world. As such we have to learn how to give good example to others, obviously with the proper motive and purpose. Christ pointed this out
Mayor Evelio Leonardia today rallied senior citizens and other Barangay Banago residents belonging to the urban poor sector to get inoculated soonest and help educate their families about COVID-19 as their contribution to the city government’s campaign against the pandemic.
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Residents and officials of Brgys. 16A and 19A in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, thanked the Victorias Milling Company for clearing, widening and deepening of the canal that spans the two barangays, which always being flooded during
Members of the Kapatiran para sa Progresong Panlipunan Inc. (Kapatiran) based in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental continue to receive more livelihood assistance from the government through the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. The beneficiaries are former rebels under the
About four tons of trash were collected along the coastal barangay of Punta Taytay following the coastal cleanup drive initiated by Abomar Equipment Sales Corporation with student volunteers on Friday, May 3. More than 200 volunteers from Sum-ag National High
Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. The Acts of the Apostles tell us that after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples, presenting himself alive to them by many proofs and giving them instructions for
An award-winning filmmaker and longtime educator has been recently appointed by the Bacolod City Government as director of its film festival, set to be held this September in select cinemas in the city. The Bacolod Film Festival Council (BFFC), chaired
Kabataan Partylist-Negros vehemently condemned the intimidation, psychological harassment, and constant illegal surveillance by the state forces to Florence Guzon, KPL-Negros’ Secretary General, a press release from the group said. Last April 25, state elements went to Guzon’s residence in Talisay
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The month long anti-illegal operations in Negros Occidental, including the highly urbanized Bacolod City, has led to the arrest 246 persons, according to reports of the Police Regional Office 6. Among the arrested suspects, a total
“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
