• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A sugar planter is now locked up in jail, following his arrest on March 27 in Candoni, Negros Occidental, for illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Armed with a search warrant issued by Kabankalan Regional Trial
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen yesterday recovered about P3.4 million worth of suspected shabu during a buy bust operation at Purok Kapawa in Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City. Nabbed during a buy bust operation, conducted by the BCPO Drug Enforcement Unit,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The city government of Victorias in Negros Occidental, is set to distribute 3,555 tablet computers to Victoriahanon students, following the provision of 711 SMART TV sets and 924 laptops to all public school classrooms, also in
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 220 children and senior citizens of three poblacion barangays in E. B. Magalona, Negros Occidental, have availed yesterday of free medical services and free medicines at the Asenso Tumandok Medical Mission. Held at
A covered image of Mary Magdalene, along with her carroza, are being prepared for the Good Friday procession in Silay City.* Nic Ledesma/CCN photo
“Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.” (Jn 8,58) Words of Christ that so confounded the Jews of that time that they started throwing stones at him. These are words Christ said to show
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the
After attending the United Nations 2023 Water Conference in New York from March 22 to 24, Environment Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga has called on stakeholders to scale up efforts to address the global water crisis. “Now, more than ever, we
Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated talk show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s words moved me. I chanced upon a video on YouTube where she was passionately talking about recognizing one’s higher purpose in life. The timing was impeccable as I
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Negrense visual artist Tetet Ledesma is holding her solo art exhibition titled “Grateful” at the White Hotel in Burgos Street, Bacolod City, which opened on March 18 and will run for a month. Carmeli Bantug was
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Stressing that they have enough funds to help their drought affected residents, Mayor John Rey Tabujara announced yesterday that they will not declare a state of calamity, amid reports from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist
Here comes the SUNN. The State University of Northern Negros (SUNN), formerly known as Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, was officially inaugurated, with Renante Egcas as first university president, in a ceremony at the SUNN Hotel in
Last Sunday’s gospel gave us a glimpse of Jesus’ intimate relationship with his disciples through the much-loved image of the Good Shepherd (who knows his sheep and lays down his life for them). This Sunday we are given another equally
• YASMIN PASCUAL-DORMIDO The University of St. La Salle won the 1st Negros Island Private Schools Athletic Association (NIPRISAA) perpetual trophy, having won the most number of medals (209) to end up as the first champion of the recently-concluded sports
When there exists a new and a potentially powerful weapon that can be easily deployed during this golden age of disinformation that we live in, most politicos and their operators would probably prefer to turn a blind eye to it,
“We’re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.” – Chris Hayes We suffer because of drought, and I think we are bound to, as the saying goes. The social welfare department released the data that it has affected
