January 4, 2022

Bacolod vax drive resumes

Bacolod’s vaccination drive resumed at the different malls and barangays starting yesterday, Dr. Edwin Miraflor, Jr., officer-in-charge of the City Health Office, said. The schedule ran from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for mall-based inoculation, he said, adding that the

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Biz permit renewals at mall begins

BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Business permit renewal and the Business One-Stop-Shop (BOSS) started yesterday at the 4th floor of the Ayala Malls Capitol Central, Bacolod City and will run until January 20. Permits and Licensing Division head Stela Rose Rayos

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Bacolod BHWs federation judged 2nd best

The Bacolod City Barangay Health Workers Federation placed second in the search for the Best Performing Barangay Health Workers Federation in the recently concluded 2021 BHW Performance Based Incentive Awards conducted by the Department of Health Western Visayas-Center for Health

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Orola brings up COVID and ‘Odette’ concerns

Negros Occidental gubernatorial aspirant lawyer John N. Orola Jr., appealed to Negrosanons to maintain alert level status at alert Level 2 and at the same time create feasible modalities/avenues to sustain the economic recovery of the province, a press release

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Our weakness attracts God’s power

That beautiful gospel episode on the multiplication of the loaves (cfr. Mk 6,34-44) clearly shows us that our helplessness in certain situations should not worry us so much. God is always around and knows what to do, though his ways

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Twenty-twenty too?

The New Year has just been rung in and yet, because of the Omicron variant and holiday fueled surge, it feels like 2021 all over again. Whatever gains we made in the fight against COVID-19 throughout the entire year of

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Coordination meeting held for hosting of provincial, regional meets

The Department of Education (DepEd) Negros Occidental recently held a coordination meeting with the counterpart committee chairs from the provincial government of Negros Occidental, Bacolod City government, and DepEd Division of Bacolod City for the upcoming 2024 Provincial Athletic Association

Albee to seek reelection

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez has announced his intention to seek reelection as mayor of highly urbanized Bacolod City. Right now, I’m staying put, Benitez said when he made the announcement on Saturday, during a press briefing

DA OKs funding for proposed E.B. Magalona abattoir

The proposed abattoir project of the Municipality of E. B. Magalona, which will cost P55 million and will be constructed in its Barangay Gahit, will receive funding from the Department of Agriculture (DA), a press release from E.B. Magalona PIO

Negros Occidental dengue cases down 31%

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Dengue cases in Negros Occidental have shown a steady decline in the first two months of 2024, dropping by 31 percent compared to the same period last year. Based on the reports of the Provincial Health

First PONY Visayan baseball championships held in Sagay

The City of Sagay has recently making significant strides in paving the way for the revival of baseball as a re-emerging sport in the province of Negros Occidental, where, as part of its annual Sinagayan Festival, it hosted the 1st

Kiko hopeful NIR signed into law by April

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN As the Negros Island Region bill, which has already been approved by the House of Representatives and Philippine Senate, soon finds it way to Malacañang, Negros Occidental Third District Rep. Jose Francisco Benitez said he is