• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The confirmed cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, has risen further to nine in the highly urbanized city of Bacolod, as of April 20. Of 28 cases, nine are confirmed, 18 yielded negative results,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Diocese of Dumaguete, which issued an appeal to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to veto Senate Bill 2507 that seeks to create Negros Island Region (NIR), alleges that it violates the 1987 Constitution. The President earlier
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Stressing that they have enough funds to help their drought affected residents, Mayor John Rey Tabujara announced yesterday that they will not declare a state of calamity, amid reports from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist
• 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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Incumbent Mayor John Rey Tabujara appears to be unfazed by reports that he will be challenged in the Cauayan mayoralty race in the elections next year. Tabujara confirmed that he will be seeking his third and
The leadership of the House of Representatives will take its cue from the Senate, which will now take the lead on the proposal to amend the restrictive economic provisions of the 37-year-old Constitution, a press release from the House of
Mayor Raymund Tongson brought honor to Himamaylan City as he received the award as Best Oral Presenter in the recently concluded 2nd International Conference for Higher Education Research of the Philippine Association of Institutions for Research Inc., said a press
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
Whose duty is it to modernize the country’s public transportation system? Should it have been the traditional jeepney operators and drivers, who were basically, by default, somehow left in charge of a cultural icon and the undisputed “king of the
A recent Social Weather Stations survey indicates that more Filipinos experienced involuntary hunger in the first quarter of the year, the highest since 20221, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the survey conducted on March 21 to 25 showed
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The week-long anti-drug operations of the police in Western Visayas has resulted in the apprehension of 98 drug suspects and the recovery of almost two kilos of suspected shabu with an estimated market value of P13,226,000.
At the end of the first round of games, Organic Solutions cruised towards an easy win over JSY Countertrade with a final score of 67-53. The first half was a back-and-forth contest, though it always seemed Organic Solutions were the
• ANDREW ALTAREJOS About 168 newly registered medical technologists took their oath as professionals, presided by Dr. Marilyn Cabal-Barza, chairman, Professional Regulatory Board of Medical Technology of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), at SMX Convention Center in Bacolod City Monday.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The granting of a franchise to the Negros Electric Power Corp., to maintain an electric power distribution in key localities of Negros Occidental, is steadily inching towards approval by the Philippine Senate. The Senate approved on
A team from the DOST- Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), led by Fenina Osorio, paid a courtesy visit to Mayor Marvin Malacon on Monday, in the middle of their data collection for the National Nutrition Survey in Barangay Manta-angan,
On the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, we are reminded that we should always have heaven in mind, for that is where we came from and where we are supposed to go as our ultimate destination and to
