BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Negros Bacolod Transport Coalition is requesting the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Transportation to conduct a dialog to tackle the alarming and controversial status of the transport industry in the city. Diego Malacad, United Drivers
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday lauded the conduct of drug testing among the 1,100 government employees of Victorias City, Negros Occidental, describing it as a “good idea.” The drug testing in Victorias City led by Mayor
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office has condemned the killing of a police force multiplier on Thursday night by a gunman, claiming to be a member of the New People’s Army, at Purok 2 in Brgy.
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A bill that seeks to create agricultural trading centers to be called “Bagsakan ng Bayan Markets,” in every province, was filed on August 31 at the House of Representatives by Negros Occidental 3rd district Rep. Jose
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN A Philippine Army general yesterday dismissed as “fake news,” claims of the New People’s Army that at least two Army soldiers died after they harassed a military outpost in Sitio Casingan, Brgy. Trinidad, Guihulngan City, Negros
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Month-long anti-drug operations of the police in Bacolod City led to the neutralization of 46 drug personalities, through their arrests, that yielded more than P7 million worth of illegal drugs. PLt. Col. Sherlock Gabana, spokesperson of
The Sacred Heart Seminary-Bacolod celebrated their Araw ng Wika 2022 on August 29. Sem. Christian John Yanson Perlin, academic life servant leader, officially opened the celebration with the theme, “Filipino at mga Katutubong Wika: Kasangkapan sa Pagtuklas at Paglikha”. As
To be consistent to our Christian identity and vocation, we need to live a certain type of detachment that involves a certain self-emptying that would fill us completely with the spirit of Christ. That’s because in the end what truly
Malnutrition needs to be addressed in the country with more investments in programs and active participation from the private sector, the World Bank urged in a recent webinar. Yoonyoung Cho, senior economist at the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice
That’s what we can gather from what Christ said about himself being the Bread of Life. “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eats of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the
Senator Imee Marcos with Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer and his wife, Rep. Juliet Marie Ferrer, at the opening of 28th Panaad sa Negros Festival in Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City.* GPB photo
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Art Studio Forty Nine has an ongoing group exhibition of the artworks of its students at the West Bridgeway of SM City Bacolod. Rodney Martinez, past president of the Art Association of Bacolod-Negros, led the opening
The Luzon and Visayas grids were placed under alert status for the third consecutive day on Thursday, due to thin power supply. The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) put the Luzon grid under red alert status from 3
Philippine shares sustained its shedding on Monday, with the index falling below the 6,600 level, even as the peso depreciated by 0.28 amid the geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) closed 1.46 percent lower,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) can have a sigh of relief as the raising of the amount for their conditional cash grants is now being pushed in Congress. 4Ps party list Rep. JC
