May 2023

Dangerous for children

The Philippines was found to be among the world’s most dangerous countries in the world for children, in terms of exposure to multiple types of overlapping climate and environmental shocks and stresses, said the latest UNICEF East Asia and Pacific

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Royal Star Trading wins championship game

Number two seed Royal Star Trading pulled away in the 2nd half to defeat top seed University of St. La Salle Bacolod – Fyr Fyter, 87-71, Sunday at the Tay Tung High School Po Hang Gymnasium.  Witnessed by a packed crowd, RST took the first

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Gasoline prices up, kerosene down

Oil firms will adjust prices of gasoline and kerosene effective today.  In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Petro Gazz, PTT, Seaoil, and Shell said they will increase gasoline prices by P1 per liter. On the other hand, Caltex, Seaoil, and Shell

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MORE Power to invest P4B in Ceneco JVA

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) of business tycoon Enrique Razon will invest about P4 billion in the proposed Joint Venture Agreement with Central Negros Electric Cooperative, as about 1,000 barangay leaders in 61 barangays

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Only BAI can declare ASF in Bago – Ferrer

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN No ASF (African Swine Fever) in hogs in Bago City, Negros Occidental, unless it is declared by the Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Animal Industry, Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer said yesterday. This was the reaction of Ferrer

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Typhoon Betty cancels boat trips, some classes

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Boat trips between Negros Occidental, Iloilo and Cebu provinces were cancelled yesterday due to rough seas, while classes at all levels today in Hinobaan town, have been suspended by Mayor Daph Anthony Reliquias Jr. Based on

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76 WV brgy officials linked to illegal drugs

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 76 barangay officials in Western Visayas allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade are now under monitoring by the Philippine National Police (PNP), almost five months before the synchronized barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan

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Bacolod SP mulls 4-day work week for city hall

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod is requesting Mayor Albee Benitez to consider a comprehensive work week (Monday to Thursday) with work hours stretched from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for employees of the City Government of Bacolod

‘Whoever has seen me has seen the Father’

These words of Christ were addressed to Philip, the apostle, who asked Christ to show him the Father after Christ said that he was “the way, the truth and the life” and that no one can go to the Father

UNegA gears up for elections

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The United Negros Alliance (UNegA) is set to hold its general assembly this month, as the political party gears up for the elections on May next year. Cadiz City Mayor Salvador Escalante Jr., the UNegA secretary

GCash lending arm recognized at HK digital awards

Fuse Lending, the credit arm of finance app and mobile wallet GCash, was recognized for its innovative products at The Asset’s Triple A Digital Awards, recently held in Hong Kong. The awards are a recognition by Hong Kong- based financial

True love has a universal scope

This is what we can get from the readings of the Mass on the 6th Sunday of Easter, Year B. (cfr. Acts 10,25-26.34-35.44-48; 1Jn 4,7-10; Jn 15,9-17) The true love that can only come and is a sharing of the

Brgy tanod chief shot dead in Sipalay

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A barangay tanod chief was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman on Friday evening at Purok Mabinuligon in Brgy. Camindangan, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental. Initial investigations of the Sipalay City police indicated that the 37-year-old