BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Barely six days before the May 9 elections, the 18 towns and cities tagged as Election Watchlist Areas (EWAs) in Negros Occidental, have remained peaceful as of this time, provincial police deputy spokesperson PLt. Abegael Donasco
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Commission on Elections is putting up isolation polling places (IPP) in Negros Occidental to cater to voters experiencing COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, disclosed Provincial Comelec supervisor Atty. Roberto Salazar Jr. Salazar said there will
Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia yesterday issued a call on Bacolodnons to be more discerning with information they read or encounter on social and mainstream media as the election campaign reaches fever pitch in the run-up to the May 9 national
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The reelection bid of Eugenio Jose Lacson as governor of Negros Occidental got the full support of the Vicmico Planters Association Inc, Vicmico Planters’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative and VMC Farmers’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative. They described Lacson as a
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A self-confessed platoon leader of New People’s Army in southern Negros and his live-in partner, yesterday surrendered to the Bacolod City Police Office. Known only through their aliases as Ka Vince and Ka Karrel, PCol. Joseph
Negros Occidental gubernatorial candidate Juan Orola Jr., was endorsed by leaders of different labor federations, labor unions, labor center and labor rights advocates in the province. His endorsement was contained in a manifesto signed May 1, in time for the
LENI IN BAGO. A crowd of about 15,000, as estimated by its organizers, attended the mini political rally of presidential bet Leni Robredo at Bantayan Park in Bago City yesterday.* GBP Photo
Remember that beautiful gospel episode about the wedding in Cana. (cfr. Jn 2,1-11) Mary, very much a woman who always sees details often missed by men, noticed that the celebration was running out of wine, and so she asked her
After defending e-sabong as an activity which generates millions in revenues for the government every month, President Rodrigo Duterte, whose six-year term officially ends in a couple of months, now says he is putting an end to it. In his
Spring has definitely sprung with a gay event right down the street where I attend Mass when I wake early. A flurry of activities were visible with the banners and rainbows I could see adorning the lieu. It’s my hood’s
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 3rd Infantry Division welcomed the probe to be conducted by the Commission on Human Rights on a series of killings perpetrated and claimed by remnants of the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. We
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Twelve former rebels who surrendered to the 62nd Infantry Battalion and police in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, have availed of financial aid, through the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation of the Department of Social Welfare
Grace Pharmacy president Ian Manuel T. Lo, representing the Dr. Manuel Lo Foundation, generously donated 20,000 five-kilo bags of rice to Bacolod City. The turnover rites were held yesterday at the Bacolod City Government, and the rice donations were received
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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A former head of the National Bureau of Investigation Anti-Terrorism Division is now leading the NBI Bacolod District Office. Manuel Fayre Jr. replaced Atty. Renoir Baldovino, who had been assigned in Bacolod City for more than
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A marijuana plantation was discovered and raided on Tuesday by the police in Sitio Bedio, Brgy. Codcod, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. Seized at the plantation were 132 fully grown marijuana plants, estimated at 20 kilos.
