May 14, 2022

Maximum tolerance for WV cops during rallies

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Police commanders in Western Visayas have been ordered to exercise maximum tolerance in dealing with demonstrators protesting of the outcome of May 9 elections. PBrig. Gen. Flynn Dongbo, regional police director of Western Visayas, however issued

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Arrested couple yields P1.18M in shabu

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN More than P1.18 million worth of suspected shabu was seized yesterday by the police in another buy bust operation at Purok Kapawa in Brgy Punta Taytay, Bacolod City. Nabbed by operatives of the Bacolod City Police

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Wage hike for WV private workers, househelp

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Western Visayas has endorsed to the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) up to P450 daily minimum wage for workers in private establishments and P500 monthly increase for the salary of

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Tan meets GMA, presumptive VP Sara

BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Former Bacolod councilor Ricardo Tan was invited by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) during a dinner she and her family hosted for presumptive Vice President Sara Duterte Thursday in Manila. Also present were former First Gentleman

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Hari ng Pilipinas pageant on

The official candidates of Hari ng Pilipinas 2022 with provincial pageant director Joelito Aspan Orencio Jr. (center), during the sashing ceremony and press presentation at the Northwest Inn Hotel in Bacolod City yesterday.*

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The distinctive mark of a true Christian

Christ said it very clearly. “This is how all will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another,” he said. (Jn 13,35) And in another instance, he described how this love for one another should

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Red tagging and book burning?

Who would’ve thought that an online sale on children’s books on dictatorship and Martial Law would prompt the country’s intelligence chief to express alarm and claim without basis that it is part of a communist plot to “radicalize” Filipino children?

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8.3% GDP growth to bolster biz confidence

An economist of Juwai IQI Global has seen the country’s 8.3-percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter of the year as a good launch pad for the next administration to pursue its economic agenda. The chief economist

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