October 1, 2021

Acting prov’l Comelec supervisor relieved

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Lawyer Ian Lee Ananoria is back in Negros Occidental as the new acting provincial Comelec supervisor effective September 30. Ananoria yesterday replaced Atty. Maria Fatima Aspan, who returned to her previous position as Election Officer of

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Albee not worried by petition

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Former Rep. Alfredo Benitez said he is confident that the petition for his exclusion in the voters list of Bacolod City, will be rejected by the court. Benitez, who declared his intention to run for mayor

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Be wary of bitter zeal

Yes, we have to be most careful with our tendency to fall into bitter zeal. It’s that zeal that was rebuked by Christ in that gospel episode where his disciples suggested that fire rains on those who did not welcome

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Grid tied 2

So it was right smack in the middle of this pandemic that the PV stars aligned and the opportunity to shift my hybrid-off-grid system to a grid-tied one presented itself. Our home’s second set of lead acid, deep discharge batteries

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Bottom dweller

The Philippines has been declared the worst place to be in a pandemic among 53 countries in Bloomberg’s COVID Resilience ranking this month. To be fair to our unfortunate country, other Southeast Asian countries also slid to the bottom of

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Negros-based Sara supporters still hopeful

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Supporters of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio in Negros Occidental are still hopeful that the lady mayor will eventually decide to run for president in the May 2022 elections, after she topped again a survey for

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P843K in assistance distributed

Financial assistance from the City Mayor’s Office worth P843,000 was distributed to 143 beneficiaries at the Bacolod City Government Center Wednesday and Thursday. Mayor Evelio Leonardia led the Sept. 29-30 distribution of medical help worth P688,000 to 127 recipients, burial

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Armed rebel surrenders to PNP

• 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,

No state of calamity declaration yet – guv

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday reiterated that the province is not yet declaring a state of calamity, despite the damage to crops in Negros Occidental reaching P184.7 million, due to the drought, while also

Speaker, U.S. Rep. Bera embrace ‘balut diplomacy’

Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Wednesday afternoon (United States time) paid a courtesy call to United States Rep. Ami Bera of California’s 6th District at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where the American legislator offered beer and

‘Ite, missa est’

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

AFP Visayas Command gets new head

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Another member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1991 joined his classmates in their assignments in the Visayas region, as a commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Visayas Command. In his assumption of the