• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Bacolod City Police Office has recommended to the Police Regional Office 6, the creation of a Special Investigation Task Group to investigate the dumping of human bodies and dismembered body parts in Bacolod City, in
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN In anticipation of possible flooding and landslides due to the Low Pressure Area embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone, which has triggered continuous rains, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday placed the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri called on the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to solve the recurring blackouts in Western Visayas. In a statement, Zubiri said “The DOE
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN While COVID-19 cases in Negros Occidental are rising, it is not alarming, Dr. Girlie Pinongan, Provincial Health Office acting chief, said yesterday. From January to April 24 this year, PHO logged 505 COVID-19 cases in Negros
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Armed skirmishes between Army soldiers and suspected New People’s Army rebels ensued at about 5 p.m. yesterday in Sitio Paloypoy, Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Initial reports from the police indicate that eight families residing
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Ten former members of the New People’s Army availed of P10,500 financial assistance each from the Department of Social Welfare and Development, facilitated by the 94th Infantry Battalion. Mayor Benjie Miranda, who used to be an
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is requesting Bacolod City Police Director Col. Noel Calderon Aliño to intensify the campaign against theft and robbery of electronic and telecommunications cable in the city. The resolution authored by Councilor Claudio
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Javier Miguel Benitez has distributed 23 brand new units of Apple MacBook Air laptops on May 2 to all Victorias City Hall department heads, as the city government gears up for more efficient office operations.
MANUAL LABOR. Workers unloading copra at the municipality of Cauayan, on Labor Day.* John Kimwell Laluma/CCN photo
“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step towards a civilized life” – Arthur Keith ORGANIC AGRICULTURE DENT When Negros was branded as the organic capital of the Philippines it came as a reward but, at the same time,
Yesterday we celebrated the great feast of Pentecost. Fifty days after the Lord’s resurrection, the disciples gathered in the upper room together with Mary when the Holy Spirit descended on them in the form of tongues as of fire. Filled
“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
GOVERNORS. Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose “Bong” Lacson and Negros Oriental Gov. Manuel “Chaco” Sagarbarria at a meeting yesterday at the Negros Oriental Provincial Capitol in Dumaguete City.* NegOcc Capitol PIO photo
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Saturday vowed that the House of Representatives would oppose any arrest made by China within the 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Philippines, a press release from the House said. “The House of the
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Italianni’s Restaurant recently opened its 33rd branch in the country at the ground floor of Ayala Malls Capitol Central in Bacolod City. The popular restaurant chain, known for its great American-Italian food, is the second Italianni’s
• 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
