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.
In a bid to enhance public transportation and promote eco-friendly travel options, the City of Bacolod, with the initiative of Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, will launch a green route dry run featuring electric jeeps (e-jeeps) starting May 15 until May
As per monitoring of Power Watch Negros, the application of the Negros Electric and Power Corp. (NEPC) for a legislative franchise, as embodied in H.B. No. 9805, had already passed the preliminary phase of the complex legislative labyrinth in the
GOVERNORS. Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose “Bong” Lacson and Negros Oriental Gov. Manuel “Chaco” Sagarbarria at a meeting yesterday at the Negros Oriental Provincial Capitol in Dumaguete City.* NegOcc Capitol PIO photo
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO “A mother is the heartbeat of her home, the pulse of her family’s existence.” In honor of all mothers, a group art exhibit titled “Handog kay Nanay” opened at the second level of Robinson’s Place Bacolod
The gospel of the feast of St. Matthias on May 14 tells us about how much God loves us, where we can find that love and how that love gives us also the complete joy. (cfr. Jn 15,9-17) “Jesus said
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade strongly condemned the killing spree of innocent civilians carried out and admitted by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. These acts of violence are not only abhorrent, but also a
