• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Department of Budget and Management has removed a provision in the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Negros Island Region that allows the establishment of satellite offices of government agencies in the new region’s provinces,
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Former Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for congressman of the Lone District of Bacolod City under the Nacionalista Party, yesterday at the Commission on Elections. He was the first candidate to
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Some members of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) and Partido Federal ng Pilipino have bolted to other political parties, as Day 1 of the filing of Certificates of Candidacy for candidates for the 2025 midterm elections,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental logged 6,510 voters on the last day of registration, September 30, records of the Commission on Elections showed yesterday. On the other hand, there were about 700 registrants in Bacolod City. Provincial Election Supervisor
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Victorias City vice mayoral aspirant Derek Palanca yesterday slammed the people surrounding his father, former Mayor Francis Frederick Palanca, whom he said are “misguiding and merely using him, perhaps ego feeding him, for clout to advance
BIODIVERSITY. Members of the team conducting a biodiversity assessment at the Lapus Lapus-Macapagao Local Conservation Area at Sagay City, focusing on mangroves, seagrass, and corals.* BLM-LCA Assessment Team photo
Upon the instruction of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr., Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, in partnership with Tingog Partylist and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), spearheaded the relief efforts in affected areas of the recent Typhoon Julian, bringing
October 2 is a special day for me. First, because it is the memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels to whom we should try to have a great devotion. That’s because they actually are very helpful in our daily affairs,
The government’s push to revive the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program has been met by opposition, particularly from the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and Kabataan party lists, saying genuine education should instead be advocated to influence the
I was 16 when I first experienced competing in news writing (English) at the College Press Conference and Awards (COPRE) in Punta Villa, Iloilo. I was the news correspondent of the Tolentine Star, then the official student publication of the
We need to realize this truth about ourselves more deeply and stably. We are meant to be living cooperators of Christ’s continuing mission of human redemption. And this is not only for a few, but actually for all of us.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 219 former Negros rebels have applied for amnesty, currently putting the Local Amnesty Board (LAB) Bacolod to top in terms of recording the most amnesty applicants, compared to other amnesty boards across the
The good news is that ten Aegis Juris frat men were convicted to life imprisonment for the 2017 hazing death of 22-year-old University of Santo Tomas law student Horacio “Atio” Castillo III. The bad news is that this week, hazing
Some 260 families of Barangays Atipuluan and Sampinit in Bago City, previously hit by floods in September, received food packs, medicines and vitamins, hygiene supplies, and more, through the CHMSUyanihan initiative of Carlos Hilado Memorial State University on October 3,
Employees of Negros Power and the Guardians of the Environment participated in a tree planting activity held in the mountainous region of Don Salvador Benedicto, also attended by Vice Mayor Nehemiah Joe Dela Cruz, on September 29. The program, spearheaded
Bacolod City marked Tourism Week Friday with a Barangay Booth Exhibit at The Upper East, Megaworld. The event was spearheaded by the Bacolod City Tourism Development Office, led by Ma. Teresa Manalili, Bacolod Tourism Operations Officer. The celebration kicked off
