• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The setting up of African Swine Fever checkpoints in Murcia and Talisay City, which have borders with highly urbanized Bacolod City was ordered yesterday by Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, after Bago City established border checkpoints. Bacolod
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN From a high of as many as 258 New People’s Army combatants in 2019, their numbers are now down to about 33 fighters in Negros Occidental, Brig. Gen. Orlando Edralin, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander disclosed yesterday.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Areas affected by the drought in Negros Occidental have further expanded to 1,669.71 hectares of rice and corn lands, with damage pegged at P77,702,833.31, as reported by the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist. The OPA report
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The campaign against communist insurgency in Visayas, especially in Negros, is practically “on the end game,” declared Visayas Command chief Lt. Gen. Benedict Arevalo yesterday. Stressing that the New People’s Army are now just a handful
An absurd romantic-comedy story of two praying mantises was awarded as this year’s Best Short Film of the Margaha Film Festival during its awarding ceremonies on February 28 at the Sagay City Public Plaza, a press release from Sagay PIO
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A 32-year-old male from Barangay Pahanocoy, Bacolod City succumbed to leptospirosis, according to reports from the Bacolod City Health Office (CHO). The CHO also reported three cases of leptospirosis in the city during the period covering
• ANDREW ALTAREJOS Hinigaran Mayor Jose Nadie Arceo led the inauguration of the Monument of Professor Remy A. Presas, a Hinigaranon and known as the “Father of Modern Arnis” at the Hinigaran public plaza in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on March
FIRE PREVENTION MONTH. Entries to the Bureau of Fire Protection – San Carlos art contest for primary and secondary schools that was held yesterday at the San Carlos City Fire Station.* San Carlos PIO photo
The readings of the Mass for Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Lent, (Daniel 3,25.34-43; Mt 18,21-35) which this year falls on March 5, remind us that we are all sinners, but God’s mercy is always available if we only
As the hype intensifies in the region with her Eras Tour making it to Singapore after Tokyo and Australia, it seems like everyone wants a piece of Taylor Swift these days, even Filipino lawmakers. While ‘Swifties’ have been clamoring for
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Western Visayas is now under blue alert status, in the wake of havoc created by the effects of the El Niño phenomenon in the region. In an
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN In the province of Negros Occidental, the number of confirmed pertussis cases, also known as whooping cough, has increased to 13, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Girlie Pinongan disclosed yesterday. Pinongan, however, said that two-month old infant
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
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Negros Museum in Bacolod City is hosting an all-women Korean art exhibition from April 19 to 22. Bacolod Councilor Em Ang, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on History, Culture and Arts, was guest of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) of Negros Oriental has recommended the placing of the province under a state of calamity. Provincial Agriculturist Manuel Caduyac, in an interview with Philippine Information Agency 7,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The relentless efforts of the Police Regional Office 6 toward a gun-free community led to the recovery of 998 loose firearms and 122 explosives, while 182 suspects were arrested in the first quarter of 2024. Of
