January 20, 2025

BCPO seize P4.5M in shabu

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen seized about P4.5 million of suspected shabu from four arrested drug suspects, including three women, within a period of 48 hours of police operations in Bacolod City, from January 17 to 18. A 50-year-old widow,

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Kanlaon emits ash anew

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported that Kanlaon volcano emitted ash twice on Sunday. The ash emission events generated superheated and grayish plumes that rose 150 meters above the crater, with continuous degassing and

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Cadiz’s 50th Dinagsa Festival kicks off

Colors, sounds, and crowds will fill the air as the culmination of the 50th Dinagsa Festival kicks off today with a grand opening celebration, according to a press release from the Cadiz City PIO. The festivities will begin with a

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DILG identifies 18 ‘child-friendly’ NegOcc LGUs

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 18 local government units in Negros Occidental were among the the 79 localities in Western Visayas that successfully passed the 2024 Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit (CFLGA) conducted by the Department of Interior and

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Suicide suspected in minor’s death

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A minor was reported to by the police to have been declared dead on arrival at a hospital, after allegedly killing herself on Saturday at Hacienda Margasa 2 in Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental.

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PBBM, Speaker turnover completed Yolanda housing in Leyte

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Speaker Martin G. Romualdez recently led the ceremonial turnover of Yolanda Permanent Housing Program (YPHP) projects in Leyte, proof of the government’s commitment to rebuild communities devastated by Typhoon Yolanda 11 years ago, a

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Photo of the Day

SINULOG CHAMP. Tribu Orobinocao of Barangay Orong was declared this year’s Sinulog Sa Kabankalan grand tribal competition champion in Kabankalan City on Sunday* Andrew Altarejos photo

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A beautiful description of the priesthood

The Letter to the Hebrews (5,1-10) provides us that description that gives light to the nature, character, purpose, etc. of the priesthood. “For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in the things that appertain to

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Army to secure the perimeter of polling areas

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Philippine Army will secure the exterior perimeters of polling areas, while the police is tasked with maintaining law and order within the vicinity of polling precincts during the May 12 elections, Provincial Election Supervisor Atty.

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Slain rebel’s family gets aid

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The family of the late Rolito Tanillo, an alleged member of the New People’s Army who has been linked to an arson incident, got financial assistance from the municipal government of La Libertad in Negros Oriental.

Medical mission at ‘Balay Daku’

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Lions In Sight Mission of California and Nevada conducted a medical mission at the Javellana Mansion “Balay Daku” in Bago City yesterday afternoon, in partnership with the Bacolod City Host Lions Club, which had more

9,827 affected by sulfuric smell, water contamination

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Two days after the ash eruptions of Kanlaon volcano on February 15, residents of Barangay Mailum in Bago City, Negros Occidental, which has a population of 9,827, are still suffering from a sulfuric stench, aside from