Eruption-affected residents plead for potable water
June 7, 2024
BAYANIHAN. Policemen join residents of Brgy. Biak-Na-Bato in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, as they remove the lahar that overflowed from a creek into the highway.* PRO 6 photo
BAYANIHAN. Policemen join residents of Brgy. Biak-Na-Bato in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, as they remove the lahar that overflowed from a creek into the highway.* PRO 6 photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Anticipating the start of operations by the 3rd quarter of this year, the Negros Electric and Power Corporation (Negros Power) started purchasing essential electrical materials and supplies, which signals its readiness to become the new electric
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen have seized more than P1 million worth of suspected shabu in series of buy bust operations on June 5, in Negros Occidental. One of the four arrested drug suspects turned out to be a member
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 280 persons were arrested for illegal gambling in Negros Occidental for the past month of May. Of those nabbed, 231 were arrested by the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office, and 49 others by
A total of 20,322 drug suspects were killed in just 17 months in the course of the bloody anti-drug war of former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, the House of Representatives committee on human rights learned Wednesday. The figure is more
Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Lacson and other elected officials have bared their complicity to the ongoing genocide at Gaza by welcoming with open arms Israel Embassy ambassador Ilan Fluss during a courtesy visit last June 4 in Bacolod City, a
These are words of St. Paul in his Letter to the Ephesians which is the second reading on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. (cfr. Eph 3,17) St. Paul fervently desires that Christ be truly in our heart
Why is it that there seem to be more wang wangs on our roads these days when they are no longer supposed to be allowed again, as per the Administrative Order of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.? The other week I
Over 50 of the world’s leading scientists have warned that global warming has accelerated at an “unprecedented” pace as the window to limit rising temperatures within internationally set targets is closing. The study published in the journal Earth System Science
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Bacolod City Lone District Rep. Greg Gasataya and Negros Press Club (NPC) Inc. president Erwin “Ambo” Delilan led the ribbon-cutting for the unveiling of the renovated/refurbished NPC office in Bacolod City yesterday. Fr. Aniceto “Mao” Buenafe
LONG WEEKEND. Local tourists cooling off to enjoy the long weekend at destinations like the Mabinay Spring Resort in Negros Oriental, which along with Negros Occidental and Siquijor Island, now belong to the newly created Negros Island Region.* Andrew Altarejos photo
In a bid to boost its environment protection and preservation efforts particularly on reducing plastic waste, the City Government of Bago has pioneered the implementation of a community-based waste-to-cash program in Negros Occidental. Dubbed “Aling Tindera Plastic Waste to Cash,”
Over a thousand remaining evacuees in two sites in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, received assistance from civic organizations led by the Rotary Club of Bacolod Central, along with the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI), and the Negros
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A bus passenger died, while dozens others were injured, as a result of a bus crash at about 5 p.m. yesterday at Purok Talos, Brgy. Igmayaan, Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, according to Mayor Laurence Marxlen
The Ascott Limited successfully opened its latest property on June 14 with a festive event themed “Sinadya: Celebrating the Opening of Citadines Bacolod City.” The ceremony, with its Masskara theme, successfully captured the lively spirit of Bacolod’s renowned festivals, and
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Following approval of the creation of the Negros Island Region, Negros Occidental Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo is hopeful that the new administrative region will be fully operational in 2025. “We can hope that by 2025, we