Sen. Go pushes for investments in health care
June 8, 2023
Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go and Mayor Joedith Gallego lead the groundbreaking rites of a Super Health Center to be built in Brgy. E Lopez, Silay City.* GPB photo
Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go and Mayor Joedith Gallego lead the groundbreaking rites of a Super Health Center to be built in Brgy. E Lopez, Silay City.* GPB photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The City Veterinary Office yesterday announced that it is still “safe to eat pork” in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, despite the detection of nine confirmed cases of African Swine Fever (ASF). In a post on its
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO An ordinance imposing a Mayor’s Permit fee on electric and/or telecommunication poles/posts owned by public utility companies erected on government/private lots using government streets, roads, highways and/or alleys at the rate of P500 per post per
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Power Watch Negros yesterday issued a statement urging Central Negros Electric Cooperative member-consumers to participate in the referendum on June 24 and 25, as well as July 1 and 2, for the ratification of the Joint
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Two more Negros Occidental provincial government employees were slapped with 60-day preventive suspensions after being charged with grave misconduct, serious dishonesty, and malversation of public funds, by the Provincial Legal Office, in connection with missing fertilizers
A leader of a drug syndicate being monitored by the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) was arrested in Compostela town in Cebu province on June 2, police confirmed Wednesday. The suspect, Cader Chisno Magondacan, has been identified as a sub-group
Christ said it very clearly. When asked what the greatest commandment was, he simply said: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” And
“Agriculture is not farming, it is feeding” – Reday Sol The national leadership, with other major concerns, must make agriculture an equally urgent one. The “growth and development” the country is experiencing must be directly proportional to the agriculture modernization
Farmers’ group Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) pointed out that government should prioritize the competitiveness of local palay farmers amid the flooding of imported grains, as achieving rice self-sufficiency would be short-lived if it lacks profitability for producers. FFF national
The first Ben Lo Memorial Cup kicks off today at the Bacolod Tay Tung High School Po Hang Gym with seven teams participating in the basketball competition. The field is composed of Chiang Kai Shek College, Sacred Heart School-Ateneo De
Higher prices of fuel and agricultural products are expected to contribute to upside risks to the inflation rate this month, which the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) sees between 5.3 percent and 6.1 percent. In a statement last week, the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Noting the rise of cases with flu-like symptoms in public schools, Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday renewed calls for Negrenses to wear face masks. “The wearing of face masks is something we learned during
LIT. The highway streetlights at the Talisay-Silay boundary in Barangay Bubog, along the Bacolod-Silay Airport Access Road, have been reinstalled and energized.* Talisay PIO photo
The Bacolod Tay Tung High school community honored the late Oscar K. Anglo Sr., with a commemorative marker, celebrating his legacy to Bacolod City and to the TayTungian Mission of Education. The unveiling ceremony and blessing was held on September
From left, Atty. Cezar Ong, PrimeWater VP for JV Operations; Cynthia Javarez, Chair, Prime Asset Ventures Inc.; Atty. Lorendo Dilag, Chair, BACIWA Board of Directors; Mona Dia Jardin, BACIWA General Manager; and Jabez Alvarez, owner of Northern Negros H2O Inc. signing the Bulk Water Supply Agreement which aims to address the growing demand for water in Bacolod City.*
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Three more large scale estafa cases have been filed by the police against an incumbent member of the La Castellana Sangguniang Bayan and a woman recruiter, in connection with an alleged PNP recruitment scam which reportedly