September 15, 2022

150,000MT sugar importation gets green light

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN After issuing orders that all locally produced sugar will be earmarked for domestic consumptions amid the lack of supply in the local market, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. yesterday gave the go signal for the importation of

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9 COVID deaths in 2 weeks

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN COVID-19 remains deadly to some Negrenses, as the Provincial Incident Management Team (PIMT) logged nine deaths in Negros Occidental within a two-week period this month. The increasing number of fatalities comes in the wake of the

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Rebel leader bounty raised to P500K

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Brig. Gen. Inocencio Pasaporte, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, yesterday said that the bounty being offered for the arrest of a notorious rebel leader linked to numerous murder cases has been raised to P500,000. This was after

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P1M in shabu intercepted at BREDCO Port

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Authorities yesterday confiscated an estimated P1 million worth of suspected shabu from an arrested Iloilo City resident at the BREDCO Port in Bacolod City. Nabbed was Marcial delos Santos Jr., a Person With Disability (PWD) and

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EO creates disposal committee

The Office of the City Mayor issued Executive Order No. 29 or “An Order Constituting the Bacolod City Disposal Committee” to manage the disposal of properties of the local government units of the city, a press release from City Hall

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Our Lady of Sorrows

What does the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, celebrated on September 15, remind us of? I would say that among other things, it reminds us of how our Lady can teach us how to handle our unavoidable sufferings and

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Tipping points

Planet Earth is at risk of triggering multiple climate tipping points if global temperatures continue to rise beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, researchers from the University of Exeter, Stockholm Resilience Center, Future Earth and Potsdam Institute for Climate

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Unplanned but welcome respite

On a regular week, I usually spend my Wednesday either running errands or pampering myself like getting a facial. But not yesterday.  Instead, I headed to the Agribusiness Demo Farm of the University of St. La Salle in Barangay Granada.

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Panaad sa Negros Festival opens, security assured

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday said that they have enough security forces to secure the visitors at the Panaad sa Negros Festival site in Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, where the opening ceremony was attended

Christ gives himself to us completely

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

Province logs pertussis fatality, 11 cases confirmed

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental logged its first pertussis related fatality, along with 11 confirmed cases, as of April 15. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Girlie Pinongan disclosed that the fatality is a one-month-old infant who died last week at

Bacolod Mayor seeks water security plan

Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez on Monday asked the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) to submit a water security plan as he noted the failure of PrimeWater Infrastructure Corp., Baciwa’s joint venture agreement partner, to improve supply in the past four

Holding company AGI posts P30.3B net income

Alliance Global Group, Inc. (AGI), the holding company of tycoon Dr. Andrew Tan, achieved a record-breaking net income of P30.3-billion, up 20 percent year-on-year, despite higher inflation, which pushed overall costs and expenses up during the period. Attributable net profit