• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The National Federation of Sugarcane Planters has urged the Sugar Regulatory Administration to explain why sugar prices continue to drop despite its “no importation” declaration. While sugarcane farmers were initially happy that no additional imported sugar
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The provincial government of Negros Occidental, in tandem with the Department of Energy and the University of St La Salle – Bacolod, will officially present its SecuRE Negros Roadmap (Energy Sector Development Strategy and Action Plan)
SUSTAINABLE. Organic produce being sold at the Provincial Capitol Grounds in Bacolod City, in line with the 17th Negros Island Organic Farmers Festival and 2nd Terra Madre Visayas, which will run until Nov. 23.* GPB photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The agricultural damage and losses due to the phreatic eruption of Kanlaon volcano on June, in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, has reached P194 million, affecting thousands of farmers relying their sourced of livelihood on farming, Mayor
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson needs guidelines from the Department of Budget and Management for releasing the 2022 and 2023 Performance Based Bonuses (PBB) to provincial government employees. Until such time that DBM will come up with
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF), the country’s largest service and convergence caravan, is set to visit 13 provinces in the first quarter of 2025, bringing essential government services directly to communities across the nation, a
This is what we can draw from that parable about a nobleman who had to make a journey to obtain his kingship and called his 10 servants, giving them 10 gold coins, telling them to engage in trade till he
The Second Congressional Commission on Education has found that some 10,000 schools have no policies on bullying, even with the existence of the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 of Republic Act 10627, that mandates them to implement such policies. The Commission
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Robinson’s Place Bacolod, in partnership with the Bureau of Jail Mangement and Penology (BJMP), launched the 15th Suga sg Paskua, a parol-making contest involving all 21 BJMP facilities in Negros Occidental, at the second floor of
The University of St. La Salle (USLS) is set to inaugurate the Center for Aerogel Technology for Energy and Environment (CATEE), that will be established in the University, with funding from the DOST Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Commission on Elections will focus its spotlight on Silay City, Negros Occidental, during the conduct of the 2025 synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, as it attributed vote buying as leading to the Election Day
The 38-year-old Cadiz City Public Library (CCPL) has been renovated and innovated anew, going for relevance amid digitalization, according to a press release from the Cadiz City PIO. Following its recent facelift from a one to three-storey glass-covered building, the
The implications of celebrating Independence Day on June 12, without the implementation of the P200 legislated wage hike would be significant, General Alliance of Workers Association (GAWA) secretary general Wennie Sancho said in a press statement, as he sees the
We should never forget this basic character of our life here on earth. Whatever we do, whatever situation we may find ourselves in, we should realize that we are always given a choice of whether we want to do the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negrense priest turned rebel Luis Jalandoni, known as Ka Louie among his comrades in the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA), National Democratic Front (NDF), died on June 7, while in self-exile
The General Alliance of Workers Association (GAWA) demands for the impeachment and expulsions of the 19 senators from the Senate chamber for their decision to remand the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives.
