BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Four consultants of a Negros-based bio-energy power company, who came from South Africa, have been placed under isolation and are scheduled to be re-swabbed December 1, Provincial Inter Agency Task Force action officer Rayfrando Diaz yesterday
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Labor groups like GAWA are urging the government to adopt measures to prevent mass lay-offs and preserve business enterprises from bankruptcy. Like a raging tempest, COVID-19 has ruined and devastated the economic plight of the workers,
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabansa (RAM) – United Guardians Brotherhood Inc. (UGBI), yesterday endorsed the re-election bid of Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia and congressional aspirant Dan Atayde. The endorsement was made by RAM-UGBI president Ricardo “Mustang”
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen uprooted marijuana plants in two plantations sites discovered on November 29 in Purok Mangium, Brgy. Codcod, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. PLt. Col. Arnel Solis, regional police spokesperson, yesterday said that the two marijuana plantation
A simple sharing project launched by the Laban Leni Negros Occ (LLNO) volunteer group which envisioned the provision of a 2-kg bag of rice for economically deprived families during the Christmas season, has grown to become a testament of goodness
HOLIDAY LIGHTS. The Bacolod City Government Center, in partnership with Megaworld, is lit up for the holidays with 18,360 lights.* Bacolod City PIO photo
We need to realize this more widely and deeply. If we want to follow Christ, if we truly consider ourselves as real Christians and not Christians in name only, we have to be like Christ, holy and with the burning
Christmas and year-end parties are currently being planned, after nearly two years of lockdowns, quarantines and social distancing. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and with the newly discovered Omicron variant which threatens to be even more transmissible
The buzz this week was the Norwegian Post’s Christmas ad that had eyelashes blinking globally. A nod to the movie “When Harry Met Sally” the story begins with an elderly man meets a gay Santa by his living room’s fireplace.
• 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
PANAAD COSTUMES. Sagay City (left) won the Best Colorful, while Talisay City (right) won the Best Indigenous, in the Panaad Festival Costume Competition on Thursday at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City* Andrew Altarejos photos
The Municipality of Murcia further beefed up its fleet of ambulances and patient transport vehicles after it turned over two brand-new patient transport vehicles to Brgy. Lopez Jaena and Brgy. Cansilayan on April 17. “The health and welfare of Murciahanons
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The ongoing drought created further havoc on rice and corn crops in Negros Occidental, with the damage placed by the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist at P184,764.120.11, as of April 16. Also affected are 4,574 farmers,
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