• 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
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Christian Artists National Various Arts Society (CANVAS) in partnership with the Bacolod AI Artists Association and the Bacolod City Public Library, held an art show, music concert, and poetry reading in celebration of Mother’s day
“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
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution congratulating Antonio Alexi Gayares for placing 9th in the May 2024 Philippine Nurses Licensure Examination, was approved by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod yesterday. Authored by Councilor Em Ang, the resolution said the Professional Regulation
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental got P22.2 million in AKAP, or Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program aid, which was simultaneously received on Saturday by 7,440 poor families, in separate venues. The AKAP program is the national government’s
Grace Pharmacy president Ian Manuel T. Lo, representing the Dr. Manuel Lo Foundation, generously donated 20,000 five-kilo bags of rice to Bacolod City. The turnover rites were held yesterday at the Bacolod City Government, and the rice donations were received
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade strongly condemned the killing spree of innocent civilians carried out and admitted by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. These acts of violence are not only abhorrent, but also a
