Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia expressed his elation yesterday that for the first time, the highest-ranking Philippine National Police official has set foot at the Bacolod City Government Center. “This is an honor and, for the record, this is the first
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The last day of filing of certificates of candidacy on October 8 in some hotly-contested towns and a city of the 5th district of Negros Occidental, was filled with twists and turns. It was a daughter
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The VICMICO Planters’ Association, VICMICO Planters’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative, and VMC Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Negros Occidental, have expressed their full support to the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo. The sugar planter’s group and cooperatives
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Apolinario Gatmaitan Command issued a statement strongly denying allegations that the New People’s Army in Negros Island is exploiting minors as child warriors. In statement, rebel spokesman Ka Juanito Magbanua claimed that an alias “RR”,
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Cadiz City Police Station in Negros Occidental got a commendation from PNP chief Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar for the immediate arrest of a suspect behind the robbery-slay of a senior high school teacher on October 6
Mayor Evelio “Bing” Leonardia vowed to “bring Bacolod City to even greater (economic) heights” after he made official his reelection bid last week. Leonardia, the incumbent mayor of Bacolod, filed Wednesday, October 6, his certificate of candidacy to run again
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN PNP chief General Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar announced on Saturday the promotion of PNP spokesman Col. Roderick Augustus Alba to the rank of brigadier general, as he led the awarding of outstanding police stations and police supporters
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The provincial government of Negros Occidental has accommodated more 1,000 residents of Bacolod City in the different provincial government-run hospitals ensuring that everyone has access to medical care in the past nine months of this year,
TIME-OUT. Bikers and local kids take a refreshing break at the Imbang River in Brgy. Concepcion, Talisay City.* Renzi Juarez/CCN photo
Calling all women! Join me in giving thanks that we were not born in Afghanistan, or worse, Taliban. I think it is only lately that the whole world became aware of the situation of women in that country, especially now
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Art Studio Forty Nine has an ongoing group exhibition of the artworks of its students at the West Bridgeway of SM City Bacolod. Rodney Martinez, past president of the Art Association of Bacolod-Negros, led the opening
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Elizabeth Felicias Gaston-Puey, popularly known as “Christy Love,” celebrated her 80th birthday recently at Nature’s Village, Talisay City, Negros Occidental. Beth started her career as a disc jockey at the Manila Broadcasting Company-Bacolod (DYEZ) in 1980,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The drought brought about by El Niño phenomenon continues to wreak havoc on rice and corn crops in Negros Occidental, where as of April 12, the value of the damage has been pegged by the Office
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri led the inauguration and blessing of a two-story dormitory worth P14,850,000 inside the Carlos Hilado Memorial State University (CHMSU) Binalbagan campus on April 15, a press release said. The legacy project of Senator Zubiri
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A 58-year-old woman was gunned down, allegedly by a barangay tanod in Victorias City, while a farmer was burned to death in Cadiz City, all in Negros Occidental, on April 16. The woman victim, whose identity
A fireman trains his hose at the fire that destroyed 16 houses and damaged 3 at Barangay 18, Bacolod City on Saturday.* Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade photo
