• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Uncertain as to when the Middle East armed conflict will end, the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board- Negros Island Region (LTFRB-NIR) is proposing that local government units to provide additional fuel subsidies for public utility vehicle
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The inclusion of representatives from sugar, ethanol and mill workers, agrarian reform beneficiaries, and consumer groups in the Sugar Regulatory Administration Board is being pushed by Deputy Speaker Raymond Democrito Mendoza in proposed House Bill No.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN / THERESA MAE DULMAN More local government units and government agencies in Negros Island Region have announced that they are adopting the 4-day compressed workweek, as part of energy conservation measures, amid the heightening of the
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Forty percent of the total power requirement of the Bacolod City Government Center is now supplied from clean and renewable energy, through the installation of solar panels, according to former city mayor-turned Representative Alfredo Abelardo Benitez.
RELICS. The St. Ezekiel Moreno Reliquarium at Villa Milagros in Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City, houses more than 200 relics of various saints, is now open to the public.*
• THERESA MAE DULMAN The Bacolod City government distributed P665,000 in financial aid yesterday, to support 64 families across three barangays, affected by a series of fire incidents. The payout, conducted under the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS)
• THERESA MAE DULMAN Authorities are awaiting the resumption of flights in Bahrain to repatriate a cancer-stricken Bacolodnon Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW), through the coordinated efforts of the City Help Desk and the Department of Migrant Workers. Following a personal
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) received augmentation forces from Regions 6 and 7, which are expected to boost its law enforcement capability and operational readiness. The 190 additional personnel who have been reassigned to
The body of a man was discovered by farmworkers at Hacienda Otelia, Barangay Efigenio Lizares, Talisay City, Negros Occidental, at around 6 a.m. yesterday. While not a resident of the area, the victim was tentatively identified by the alias ‘Jayvee’
• THERESA MAE DULMAN Police Regional Office Negros Island Region operatives arrested two men and seized several unlicensed firearms in separate search warrant operations across Negros Occidental on Tuesday, March 10. The first operation was conducted at approximately 7:30 a.m.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Former Senate president Francis “Chiz” Escudero is urging the national and local governments to immediately provide a “fuel differential subsidy” to drivers of public jeepneys, taxis, tricycles and transport operators this April, stressing that the temporary
The Second Sunday of Easter or the Octave of Easter is designated as Divine Mercy Sunday. The Ordo describes it as “a perennial invitation to the Christian world to face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that
As “Oplan Paglilingkod” marks its 30th year, Sagay Mayor Leo Rafael “Bebo” Cueva challenged local government departments to sustain and strengthen the city’s people-centered service delivery, emphasizing that bringing services closer to communities must continue to improve each year, a
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Nine soldiers of the 47th Infantry Battalion were honored and conferred with medals by the Armed Forces of the Philippine Visayas Command for their recent successful operations against remnants of the New People’s Army in Barangay
• THERESA MAE DULMAN Bacolod City police seized approximately P170,000 worth of suspected shabu during a buy-bust operation in Barangay 2 early Monday morning. The operation, conducted by police station 2 at around 1:00 a.m., resulted in the arrest of
• THERESA MAE DULMAN Two female doctors from the Bacolod City Health Office (CHO) are now facing formal administrative cases following show cause orders against them by the City Legal Office. According to City Legal Officer Atty. Karol Joseph Chiu,
