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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Pest infestations have wreaked havoc on 125 hectares of sugarcane and corn plantations in three local government units of Negros Occidental, initially affecting 208 farmers, according to reports of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist. In
Hometown bet John Rey Oro will aim for back-to-back wins in the ICTSI-JPGT (Junior Philippine Golf Tour) Visayas Series which starts Monday at Bacolod Golf and Country Club in Binitin, Murcia. Out to stop Oro’s title campaign in the premier
Over a thousand remaining evacuees in two sites in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, received assistance from civic organizations led by the Rotary Club of Bacolod Central, along with the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), and the Negros
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A diverse group of talented Negrense artists comes together to showcase their unique perspectives and creative expressions in a group art exhibition titled “Kaleidoscope.” The show opened at the White Space Gallery at the Art District,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN While the United Negros Alliance (UNegA) has yet to make the formal announcement and endorsement of Board Member Jose Benito Alonso as the coalition’s vice gubernatorial bet in the elections on May next year, he already
The House of Representatives will prioritize the approval of the 2025 national budget after the 19th Congress opens its third and last regular session, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said recently. The leader of the 300-plus-strong House said the national spending
