BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The 2023 annual budget of P3.250 billion submitted by Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez maintains a status quo with the previous year’s budget. This is the third instance the city hit the three-billion-mark, following fiscal year
BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The registration of voters will resume on December 9 and end on January 31, 2023, Bacolod Election Officer Kathrina Trinio-Cana announced. It is just an initial period since the Commission on Elections can always extend the
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental logged nine COVID-19 related deaths for the month of October as it comes to end, according to a report of the Provincial Incident Management Team. Active cases also went up by about 100 percent,
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Commodore Edgar Ybanez yesterday relinquished his command of the Coast Guard District Western Visayas to his successor, Commodore Arnaldo Lim Lim, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class 1995, was installed by Coast Guard deputy
The 6-day competition of the Bacolod Dancing Traffic Enforcers Challenge, held from October 5 to 19 in Bacolod City ended with Traffic Enforcer Hazel Nagar as the highly favored winning performer, a press release from the organizers said. Presenting the
The story of Zacchaeus in the gospel (cfr. Lk 19,1-10) gives us the precious lesson that despite our sinfulness we should never hesitate to go to God, asking for mercy and willing to do atonement and reparation for whatever damage
After two years of being closed by government because of the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, cemeteries all over the country have finally been opened to the public, allowing Filipinos to partake of their tradition of visiting loved ones
The Negros Occidental Provincial Government and the Provincial Sports Office (PSO) informed the public in a press release that the Abanse Negrense Softball Tournament 2022 scheduled to open on October 29 in Brgy. Blumentritt, Murcia has been postponed due to
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental and four of its local government units bagged numerous national awards during the 23rd Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines (ATOP) Pearl Awards held on October 27 in Tagaytay City, which was held
Army soldiers help unload DSWD foodstuff for distribution to evacuees affected by Tropical Depression Paeng in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental.* 62IB photo
The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), the oldest primary NGO in the country, through its Negros and Iloilo Offices, in collaboration with its partner, the Panay-Negros-Guimaras Crab Fishers Alliance (PANEG-CA), have spearheaded the first ever Regional Advocacy Mission in Western
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A 57-year-old landowner was injured after a gun attack on Saturday in Brgy. Dolis, Calatrava, Negros Occidental. Police investigations showed that the victim, whose identity they withheld, was distributing the salaries of their workers at their
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The long arm of the law has finally caught up with a leader of a New People’s Army, who was allegedly involved in the death of Negrense soldier, PFC Rodelo Alfanza, following an encounter in Tubongan,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN PrimeWater and Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) are deploying 24 storage tanks to 12 barangays in Bacolod City that were identified with critical levels of water availability, as part of ongoing initiatives to address the challenges
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The bill granting night shift differential to government employees whose work requires them to perform their duties beyond regular working hours, which was already approved by the bicameral committee of Congress, is now up for signing
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Incumbent Mayor John Rey Tabujara appears to be unfazed by reports that he will be challenged in the Cauayan mayoralty race in the elections next year. Tabujara confirmed that he will be seeking his third and
