• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson disclosed yesterday that he is “inspired” by the statement issued by Cadiz City Mayor Salvador Escalante, that the United Negros Alliance (UNegA) will continue to support his administration. Escalante, the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A minor who was injured in a shooting incident, and was expected by the police to help in the identification of suspects behind the attack that claimed the lives of his mother and elder brother in
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The March 22 letter of five industrial manufacturers in the food and beverage industry requesting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to directly import sugar for their needs, is an economic disaster for the sugar industry, Save the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN With the suspension for 60 days of Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves for misconduct, House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez has assumed post of Negros Oriental legislative caretaker, effective March 23 until May 22 this year. The House
Negrense labor leader Roland de la Cruz, the national president of the National Congress of Unions in the Sugar Industry of the Philippines (NACUSIP), was re-appointed as labor sector representative to the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council of the Department
Participants of simultaneous indignation rallies in Negros Island burning a replica of a CPP-NPA flag.* 303IB photo
March 30 marked the 4th year commemoration of the bloody 2019 Synchronized Enhanced Military – Police Operation (SEMPO), also known as Oplan Sauron 2, of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) forces. That day,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Brig. Gen. Leonardo Peña, commander of the 302nd Infantry Brigade in Negros Oriental, has been designated as the new assistant division commander of Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. However, the successor of Peña at the 302nd Infantry
That’s what Christ told those Jews who could not believe that he was the Son of God. “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy,” those Jews said. “You, a man, are making yourself God.” (Jn
One driving habit that surprises me whenever I’m in Metro Manila is how the people there are so dependent on the navigation app Waze. It doesn’t matter if they are going somewhere for the first time, or if they are
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Negros Museum in Bacolod City is hosting an all-women Korean art exhibition from April 19 to 22. Bacolod Councilor Em Ang, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on History, Culture and Arts, was guest of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Grid operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) yesterday placed the Visayas grid under yellow alert, as 13 power plants are on forced outage, while five others are running on derated capacities, resulting in a
About 575 Senior High School students of E. B. Magalona National High School attended a Career Guidance and Employment Coaching at their school on April 17. Mayor Marvin Malacon, Vice Mayor Eric Matulac, and Executive Assistant Matthew Louis Malacon also
The Fourth Sunday of Easter is often called Good Shepherd Sunday. The gospel reading in each of the three lectionary cycles is taken from Chapter 10 of John wherein Jesus refers to himself as the good shepherd. “I am the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday reiterated that the province is not yet declaring a state of calamity, despite the damage to crops in Negros Occidental reaching P184.7 million, due to the drought, while also
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The National Electrification Administration (NEA) ordered the dismissal and forfeiture of benefits of two former general managers and 12 members of the board of directors of the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative (NOCECO), due to improper fund
