PBBM designates VG Ferrer ‘WV Personal Adviser’
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with his Personal Adviser for Western Visayas, Negros Occidental Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer.*
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with his Personal Adviser for Western Visayas, Negros Occidental Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer.*
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN More dengue related deaths were logged in Negros Occidental and highly urbanized Bacolod City, as cases also increased further, records of the Department of Health Western Visayas show. Of the nine additional dengue related fatalities in
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A Bacoleña lawyer has been designated by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as Undersecretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology. She is Atty. Jocelle Batapa Sigue, also a former councilor of Bacolod City. In a
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has given the go signal for the establishment of a solar power plant in Calatrava, Negros Occidental. “The solar farm is a go, it’s not a controversial issue, they were here with
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Two Negros Occidental officials joined the 8th World Cities Summit in Singapore for intensive discussions on how to help global cities remain liveable, sustainable and more resilient through prolonged and predictable disruptions, amid COVID-19 pandemic and
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is requesting Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez to convene the Bacolod Arts and Culture Council. The resolution authored by Councilor Em Ang, SP chairman of the Committee on History, Arts and Culture,
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would
I don’t know how other families are doing these days, but mine is still not ready to go back to face-to-face school which supposedly reopens in a few days. First of all, we were told that it is going to
The Department of Foreign Affairs recently said that the Philippines will assert the 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea issue at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. At the meeting, the foreign ministers will be
Sipalay City government handed a total of 102 cleaning tools for the City’s Lakbayon and Lakbayan Project granted to 11 barangays of the city at the New Government Center on August 2. The recipients were Barangays 1, 2, 3, 4,
Will Team Greats make it back-to-back against Team Stalwarts? Top pick Brandon Ganuelas-Rosser and the rest of the team are certainly hard-pressed to repeat the act come the PBA All-Star weekend set March 23-24 here in Bacolod City. Last year
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The value of the damage to rice and corn crops, brought about by the drought due to the El Niño weather phenomenon in Negros Occidental, has further increased to P87,477,548.33, as of March 13, with 1,951.80
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army 79th Infantry Battalion reported yesterday the discovery of firearms, ammunition, and an explosive, believed to have been buried by New People’s Army rebels in Sitio Mocabog, Brgy. Washington, Escalante City, Negros Occidental. In a
Victorias City is among the seven cities in the Philippines that will be part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Cities for Enhanced Governance and Engagement (CHANGE) Project. On March 12, Mayor Javier Miguel Benitez signed the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Armed Forces of the Philippines Visayas Command reported that government troops sustained their onslaught against the New People’s Army in the Visayas region. During the Visayas Joint Peace and Security Coordination Center (VJPSCC) meeting held
The Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) member-consumer-owners (MCO) Federation registered their opposition to House Bill No. 9805, which seeks to grant a franchise to Negros Electric and Power Company (NEPC) through a joint-venture agreement between Prime Electric and CENECO, through