• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez yesterday suspended classes in all levels, both for public and private schools and universities, due to the extreme heat index forecasted by the state weather bureau. Benitez said, as per the Department
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN About 100,000 hectares of sugarcane plantations in Negros Island have been already been affected by the drought, said Manolet Lamata, president of the United Sugar Producers Federation. The sugar plantations in central and southern Negros Occidental
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Ten of the 31 local government units in Negros Occidental, excluding the highly urbanized Bacolod City, have been declared by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency as “drug cleared,” as December last year. PDEA identified the drug
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 3rd Infantry Division slammed remnants of the New People’s Army and its affiliated organizations, for concocting stories to accuse and malign the security forces, in order to gain sympathy of the people and win
Mayor Raymund Tongson recently led the groundbreaking ceremony of the two-storey Himamaylan City Component City Police Station building, a press release from Himamaylan PIO said. The new station building worth P24,979,760 is funded under the General Appropriations Act of 2024.
Filipinos may have kept guard protecting their Facebook accounts from possible hacking, a day after Meta confirmed there was a global outage in its system, however, what we failed to prevent was the biggest political hack when the House of
ROAD SHOW. The San Carlos City Fire Station, with the Bureau of Fire Protection Special Rescue Force of Negros Occidental, recently had a Fire Square Road Show at Paseo de Flores, Center Mall of the city, in line with the observance of Fire Prevention Month.* San Carlos PIO photo
The 4th Sunday of Lent is usually dubbed as “Laetare Sunday” for the simple reason that its Entrance Antiphon starts with this passage from the Book of Isaiah (66,10), “Rejoice, Jerusalem! Be glad for her, you who love her; rejoice
“A woman who farms is an empowered one who empowers other women.” – Anonymous The month of March is the global celebration and recognition of women’s contribution to humanity’s evolution. This perfectly fits for the celebration of a woman leader
The number of unemployed Filipinos increased in the first month of 2024, posting an employment rate of 4.5 percent, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. National Statistician and PSA Chief Claire Dennis Mapa reported that the number of unemployed persons
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Negros Island Region (NIR), which is due for signing into law by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is “very advantageous” to the 5th district of Negros Occidental, Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo disclosed on Saturday. One of
Negros Occidental has the biggest share of the food packs distributed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to El Niño-affected families in Western Visayas. Negros Occidental received 37,367 food packs, followed by Antique with 33,054 packs, Iloilo with
BOOKWORMS. Preschoolers at the National Child Development Center in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental peruse the recently donated books from the Regional English Language Office – U.S. Embassy, through the office of Neg. Occ. Third District Rep. Jose Francisco Benitez.* Kiko Benitez FB photo
In its commitment to continue delivering quality education and exceptional service, STI West Negros University inaugurated its new School of Basic Education (SBE) building along Hilado Street, Barangay 18, Bacolod City, yesterday. The ribbon-cutting ceremony and unveiling of the building
About four tons of trash were collected along the coastal barangay of Punta Taytay following the coastal cleanup drive initiated by Abomar Equipment Sales Corporation with student volunteers on Friday, May 3. More than 200 volunteers from Sum-ag National High
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN About P2.8 million worth of suspected shabu was seized by authorities from two arrested drug suspects, during a buy bust operation on Thursday at South Circumferential Road, in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City. The joint operations of
