The unveiling of the installation art entitled “Soaring High: The Power of Imagination,” was among the activities held during the MassKara Kick-off Salubong at the Bacolod City Government Center grounds yesterday to officially open the 43rd MassKara Festival in Bacolod
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN As the three-week MassKara Festival kicks off today, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez yesterday said he expects businesses to earn about P5 billion during the festival that anticipates approximately 200,000 visitors. With the very positive reaction of
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Several government employees in Negros Occidental were honored by the Civil Service Commission in Western Visayas on September 28, as part of its 122nd Philippine Civil Service anniversary held in Iloilo City. The Valladolid District Hospital
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Eighteen employees of the provincial government of Negros Occidental are currently in hot water after being issued with show cause orders by the Provincial Legal Office, for non-compliance in the submission of trip tickets and uncalled
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN About 5,000 homes for informal settlers will soon rise at the Yuhum Village in Brgy. Vista Alegre, Bacolod City, in a partnership between the administration of Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez and the Department of Human Settlements
The E.B. Magalona Municipal Health Office (MHO) reported one case of cholera in the municipality involving a 30-year-old female resident of Sitio Tinapok in the coastal barangay of Batea, a press release from the municipality said. The patient was diagnosed
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez has ordered the closure of 61 water refilling stations in Bacolod City for operating without sanitary and business permits. Of the 142 water refilling stations in Bacolod City inspected by the Environmental
Employees of San Miguel Brewery marked the 32nd anniversary of its Bacolod plant with a tree-planting activity in Barangay Estefania, Bacolod City. According to a press release, the activity also coincided with the 132nd anniversary of the plant’s parent company,
WATERSHED. The Bago River is one of the watersheds protected by the local government of Bago, seen snaking down from Mount Kanlaon.* Engr. John Kimwell Laluma photo
We need to realize this truth about ourselves more deeply. Everything is gift in our life. All the good things that we have come from God, freely given to us so we can be what he wants us to be—his
• 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 Following the declaration of a state of calamity in Kabankalan City in Negros Occidental, the Department of Trade and Industry has approved its request to implement a price freeze on basic commodities. Mayor Benjie Miranda requested
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade strongly condemned the killing spree of innocent civilians carried out and admitted by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. These acts of violence are not only abhorrent, but also a
“That they may be one, as we also are one.” (Jn 17,11) Words of Christ just before he entered into the culminating act of human redemption, expressing his greatest desire for us. We have to realize that this is the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Police chiefs in Negros Occidental have been warned of a “one strike policy and no take policy” in the campaign against illegal gambling, in their respective areas. This was after PBrig. Gen. Jack Wanky, regional police
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The havoc created by the ongoing drought on Negros Occidental continues, as the value of the damage to agricultural crops has been reported at more than P502 million, according to the Sugar Regulatory Administration and Office
