BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN We are practically ready for the May 9 elections in Negros Occidental, declared Provincial Comelec supervisor Atty. Roberto Salazar Jr yesterday. Salazar reported that they have already distributed the vote counting machines (VCMs) to Comelec temporary
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Unvaccinated voters are not being required by the Commission on Elections to present vaccination card or negative RT-PCR swab test result when entering polling places to cast their vote during the May 9 local and national
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Supporters in Negros Occidental will converge in various gatherings on May 3 to give Vice President Leni Robredo and her team both a rousing welcome reception and a Negrense-style send-off for the 2022 elections. Vice President
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN This was the call to all Negrenses of former Mayor Esteban “Sonny” Coscolluela, spokesperson of the Macros campaign in Negros Occidental. With seven days to go before the May 9 elections, Coscolluela said he expects all
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A police investigator is now in hot water after he was arrested on May 1 by operatives of the PNP Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group (IMEG) during an entrapment operation in Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod City. Nabbed
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 3rd Infantry (Spearhead) Division marked its 48th founding anniversary on May 1 at Camp Macario Peralta in Jamindan, Capiz, by honoring outstanding personnel and infantry units for their persistent efforts and dedication in serving
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Another patient of the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City jumped to his death on Saturday night, the second incident to happen in the same hospital since January this year, police records show.
FIRE. Personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection-Bacolod responding to a fire incident in Purok Maghili-ugyon, Brgy. 35, Bacolod City Sunday that resulted in P1,000 in damage to the house of Conchita Canunayon Mameso.* BFP photo
We should be very clear about this basic truth about the world in general or about the whole of nature that has been created by God. We need to realize that as God’s creation, the whole world of nature has
There is less than a week to go before the elections, and depending on who you ask, the results will either be a landslide or one of the closest fights we have ever seen. The most recent survey results, which
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Police personnel in Western Visayas have been repeatedly reminded of the “no-take policy” in the campaign against illegal gambling, which prohibits all PNP members from taking any money from illegal gambling operations, as they would face
The secretary general of Power Watch Negros said that the granting of the Negros Electric Power Corp. (NEPC) franchise could provide relief to the sufferings of the consumers of Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) brought about by frequent power outages.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Unidentified armed men shot a farmer dead in front of his wife, on Saturday at Purok 4 in Brgy. Lagaan, Calatrava, Negros Occidental. Initial police investigations indicated that the victim, a 54-year-old farmer, whose identity was
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Manhunt operations of Police Regional Office 6 against fugitives in Western Visayas have led to the arrest of 1,501 wanted persons in the first quarter of 2024, of which more than 50 percent were collared in
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Residents of Isabela in Negros Occidental that are PAG-IBIG members may soon avail of housing through a project facilitated by the municipal government, Mayor Irene Montilla disclosed yesterday. Montilla, her son, Vice Mayor Juan Miguel Montilla,
The readings of the Mass on Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter (cfr. Act 13,26-33; Jn 14,1-6) remind us of our duty to really know who Christ is since he is the very pattern of our humanity, the savior
