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
In a heartwarming display of community spirit and appreciation for motherhood, McDonald’s The Upper East and Megaworld Bacolod recently organized a special event to celebrate Mother’s Day, a press release from the organizers said. The event titled “Celebrating Motherhood: A
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez has allocated a one hectare lot in Barangay Granada, for the transfer of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology facility, from Brgy. Singcang Airport, Bacolod City, after he personally witnessed the
A team from the DOST- Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), led by Fenina Osorio, paid a courtesy visit to Mayor Marvin Malacon on Monday, in the middle of their data collection for the National Nutrition Survey in Barangay Manta-angan,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The week-long anti-drug operations of the police in Western Visayas has resulted in the apprehension of 98 drug suspects and the recovery of almost two kilos of suspected shabu with an estimated market value of P13,226,000.
About four tons of trash were collected along the coastal barangay of Punta Taytay following the coastal cleanup drive initiated by Abomar Equipment Sales Corporation with student volunteers on Friday, May 3. More than 200 volunteers from Sum-ag National High
In the gospel reading of the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, (Jn 19,25-34) we see how Christ entrusts his mother to St. John. “Woman, behold, your son,” Christ told his mother to St. John who
