• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Local business group leader Frank Carbon expressed alarm over the dumping of human bodies and mutilated body parts in Bacolod City, stressing “this is very bad for business.” Carbon, the chief executive officer of Metro Bacolod
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Militant organization BAYAN Negros yesterday issued a statement condemning the call of NTF-ELCAC spokesman Jeffrey Celis, whom they described as a serial red tagger, to arrest the leaders of the upcoming transport strike in Bacolod City.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN More than 60 families displaced by a gun battle between government troops and New People’s Army rebels on Wednesday in Sitio Ulo-Tuburan, Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, have returned to their respective homes, a day
Board Member Jeffrey Tubola and Provincial Administrator Atty. Rayfrando Diaz turn over a copy of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan resolution to the family of the late Board Member Reynaldo Depasucat, expressing the condolences of the Negros Occidental provincial councill.* Capitol PIO photo
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO / GILBERT P. BAYORAN Heavy rain brought on by the low pressure area embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone yesterday triggered flooding in some areas of Bacolod City. After the non-stop rains late afternoon yesterday, heavy
The Bacolod City government, in tandem with private garbage hauler IPM-Construction and Development Corp. (IPM-CDC), will soon launch the use of a mobile application that will allow households and business establishments to book garbage pick-ups. City Administrator Pacifico Maghari III
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Bacolod City Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (BCESU) recorded a total of 129 dengue cases in Bacolod City, with two reported deaths, as of April 22. The fatalities are 9-year-old girl from Brgy. Villamonte, and a 6-year-old
Yes, we can! Christ said it clearly. “Amen, amen I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do.” (Jn 14,12) Incredible, indeed! But that’s
The HIV/AIDS Registry of the Philippines report, according to the Department of Health, said 2,078 new human immunodeficiency virus cases were logged in March alone, with 57 deaths. It added that the number of people diagnosed with HIV per day
Headline inflation further decelerated to 6.6 percent in April from 7.6 percent in March, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said yesterday. The inflation rate settled within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ 6.3 to 7.1 percent forecast range for the period.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Manhunt operations of Police Regional Office 6 against fugitives in Western Visayas have led to the arrest of 1,501 wanted persons in the first quarter of 2024, of which more than 50 percent were collared in
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An 80-year-old widow who succumbed to multiple hack injuries, was found dead on April 22 in Sitio Malusay, Brgy. Caradio-an, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. The lifeless body of the victim, whose identity was withheld by the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Two suspected New People’s Army rebels, who are remnants of the dismantled Northern Negros Front, were captured on Thursday by Army soldiers and police troopers in Brgy. Pinowayan, Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental. 2Lt. Dan Carlo
We have to continually listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit who always intervenes in our life. And that’s because it is actually the Holy Spirit, more than us, who shapes and directs our life, who deepens, widens, if
The local stock market continued to rebound on Wednesday, closing near the 6,600 level, while the peso moved sideways. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) gained 65.95 points, closing at 6,572.75, while the broader All Shares also rose 16.56 points
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Wednesday afternoon (United States time) paid a courtesy call to United States Rep. Ami Bera of California’s 6th District at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where the American legislator offered beer and
