January 18, 2022

‘No vaxx, no ride’ on Ceres buses

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI), which operates Ceres Liner passenger buses in Visayas and Mindanao, yesterday started to implement the “no vaccine, no ride” policy of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) that it said to protect

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Guv insists on RT-PCR test for inbound travelers

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday shot down proposals not requiring inbound travelers negative RT- PCR test results. “Right now, I’d rather be safe and still request a negative RT- PCR. It’s being followed too

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Business tax deadline looms

Bacolod taxpayers processing their business permits at the Business-One-Stop-Shop at the 4th floor of the Ayala Malls Capitol Central in Bacolod City* CGS photo

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Bacolod SP urges renewal of health worker contracts

BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is urging the prompt renewal of contract of service of local health workers in assisting the City of Bacolod combat COVID-19 virus and its variants. The resolution authored by Councilor Renecito Novero

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Two gun ban violators nabbed

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Two more gun ban violators have been accounted for, following their arrests on January 16 and 17, in Hinoba-an and Victorias City, Negros Occidental, respectively, bringing to five the number of apprehended suspects since it was

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1,054 rice farmers get financial aid

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 1,054 rice farmers in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental received P5,000 each from the Department of Agriculture’s Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF). The financial aid distribution, which was held on Jan. 17 at Moises

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Manapla awards ‘Barangay ko, Love ko’ winners

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN From ten participating puroks, Zone 6 was hailed as the champion, bringing home P30,000 in cash prize during the recent cleanliness, gardening and beautification competition in Brgy. Purisima, Manapla, supported by the Victorias Milling Company (VMC).

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Humility amid greatness

If there’s one precious lesson we can learn from our devotion to the Sto. Nino, it should be about how we should be humble even if we know we have the greatest dignity among God’s creatures. Such humility would truly

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Disaster-proofing

It has been a month since Typhoon Odette surprised us and while life is more or less back to normal in parts of Negros Island that were fortunate to have been spared the direct hit of by nature’s fury, let

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Vaccination issues

The United Nations has revealed that poor nations refused to take around 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in December alone, mainly due to short shelf life. UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, uses its vaccine logistics expertise to handle delivery flights

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Negros, Capiz encounters yield firearms

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Bacolod included in STI National Youth Convention

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Sugar prices rise to P2800 level, UNIFED lauds DA, SRA

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Truth, justice, mercy always prevail in the end

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