• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Department of Health (DOH) and Commission on Elections have designated their respective regional directors for newly created Negros Island Region, taking the lead among other national government agencies. Dr. Razel Nikka Hao disclosed yesterday that
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN While the majority of La Castellana residents affected by the Kanlaon volcano phreatic eruption have gone home, the lack of water supply remains a perennial problem. Dr. Adriano Suba-an, regional director of Department of Health Western
The midnight fire at Barangay 10, Bacolod City, that affected a total of 34 families of mostly informal settlers.* Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez announced yesterday that the residential rates of Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) have significantly decreased an average of P2.40/kWh for the billing month of June. In a statement, Benitez said
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The component cities of Cadiz and Bago in Negros Occidental have emerged as among the top 10 local government units in the country in this year’s Walang Gutom Awards of the Department of Social Welfare and
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN About 3,250 police officers assigned at the Police Regional Office 6 in Western Visayas are up for transfer to the Negros Island Region. This is equivalent to 25 percent of the entire strength of the 13,000
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution expressing sympathy and condolences to the family and followers of the late Apostle Arsenio Tan Ferriol, founder and Chief Executive Minister of the Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch), who passed away on
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is arriving today in Negros Occidental, to distribute P83 million financial aid to more than 8,000 farmers and fisherfolk, who were severely affected by the El Niño phenomenon in the province. Each of the 8,315 beneficiaries,
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) awarded the local government unit of Himamaylan City a Certificate of Commendation for its implementation of the Electronic Business One-Stop Shop (eBOSS), a press release from Himamaylan PIO said. In a ceremony held at the
Christ said it very clearly. “It is not anyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ who will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven.” (Mt 7,21) Indeed, we always have
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Central Negros Electric Cooperative has lauded the Negros Power for the help extended to them in the repair and rehabilitation of its two substations yesterday in Bacolod City. We have successfully rehabilitated the Reclamation and
Together with the provincial government, Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has been keen in promoting the integration and expansion of sustainable grassroots sports development programs in the province. As a part of that effort, the Provincial Sports Office is
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN With the abundance of rains in southern Negros Occidental, which was badly hit by drought in the past several months, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday said it appears that there is no need for cloud seeding
Mayor Nicholas Yulo and Vice Mayor Ramon Torres led on Friday the blessing and inauguration of a P16.8 million Hazardous and Special Waste Treatment Facility at the vicinity of Bago City Hospital. Initiated by the City Environment Management Office (CEMO),
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution expressing sympathy and condolences to the family and followers of the late Apostle Arsenio Tan Ferriol, founder and Chief Executive Minister of the Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ (4th Watch), who passed away on
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Forty-three more barangays in Negros Occidental, have been declared as insurgency free, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson disclosed yesterday. Lacson said each insurgency-free barangay is proposed to receive P10 million worth of infrastructure projects under the Support
