November 20, 2021

Zubiri files Senate bill to restore NIR

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN As promised during his recent visit to Negros Occidental, Senate Majority Floor Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri filed Senate Bill No. 2453, or the Negros Island Region Act, which seeks to bring together Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental

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3-day mass vaccination targets 66k Bacoleños

The National Vaccination Operations Center has directed Bacolod City to inoculate 66,000 residents during the national mass vaccination program from November 29 to December 1. Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF) executive director Em Ang said that Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia

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Negros JPSCC activated

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Joint Peace and Security Coordinating Council of Negros Occidental was activated yesterday, as authorities and the Commission on Election brace for the start of election period in January next year. The JPSCC is composed of

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Woman nabbed for shabu

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen yesterday seized P136,000 worth of suspected illegal drugs from an arrested woman at Purok Kabulakan 1 in Brgy. Singcang Airport, Bacolod City. Nabbed during a buy-bust operation was Sarian Joy Cagayanan, 33, of Brgy. 35,

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Photo of the Day

WORK AND PLAY. A biker and sugarcane farmworkers farmers go about their morning activities in Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City.* Jose Tan Jr./CCN photo

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Expect the world to end badly

This is, of course, not meant to scare us nor to have a pessimistic view of life. Rather it is to be realistic, given the way we are and the way the world in general is, what with all our

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Most business friendly

Congratulations to Bacolod City for having been named the “Most Business Friendly Local Government Unit” for 2021 by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, besting 10 other finalists in the highly urbanized city category of the nationwide search. The

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URC products compete on global stage

Universal Robina Corp. (URC) has proven itself as a true multinational company, with consumer products that are now mainstays in millions of shelves across the globe. Among the company’s market leaders abroad are its Fun-O biscuits and Tivoli wafers in

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Mundial de Futbol players eye Makati City tiff

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NPA claims woman’s death in Kabankalan

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Globe goes after SIMs engaged in spam and scams

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‘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