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July 5, 2025
First Friday and market day equals a vibrant marketplace at Talisay City yesterday, where fresh produce and native goods are widely available.* Talisay City PIO photo
First Friday and market day equals a vibrant marketplace at Talisay City yesterday, where fresh produce and native goods are widely available.* Talisay City PIO photo
That gospel episode where Christ appointed 72 other disciples and sent them to places where Christ intended to visit (cfr. Lk 10,1-12.17-20) reminds us that if we too consider ourselves as disciples of Christ, we should also realize that this
(The following is the response speech of the writer graduating as a Master in Public Administration at STI West Negros University on July 5, 2025 as an academic excellence awardee) Our theme this year is: “Sustaining Excellence. Inspiring Generations.” Fully
The European Union Election Observation Mission report on the May 12 midterm polls found the lack of voter secrecy to be a persistent problem in the Philippines, as well as recommended the updating of election laws, noting that half of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN After realizing that they lost food assistance and have nowhere to go, nineteen families, composed of about 45 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to the evacuation camp that they fled in La Castellana, Negros Occidental,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Commission on Human Rights – Negros Island Region (CHR-NIR) will start a probe on a series of killings that have claimed the lives of seven civilians, perpetrated and claimed by the New People’s Army in
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 11,179 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) in Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental received financial relief, as the Philippine government, through the Department of Agrarian Reform, condoned more than P1.8 billion in debts. The targeted
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Police operatives seized an estimated P8 million worth of smuggled cigarettes which were abandoned on Wednesday at the old airport in Bacolod City. At the same time, three suspects were arrested by operatives of the PNP
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The declaration of Dumaguete City by the World Travel Index (WTI) as the Philippines’ Safest to visit in 2025, was attributed by the Police Regional Office – Negros Island Region to the sustained peace and order
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen yesterday confiscated about P374,000 worth of suspected shabu from an arrested drug suspect, during a buy bust operation on Thursday at Purok Oraro in Barangay 4, Bacolod City. Nabbed was Ariel Fuentes, 52, a High
The call of Bacolodnons to restore the Bacolod Public Plaza to its past glory is being answered, one day, one sweep, one truckload of waste at a time, a press release from the Bacolod Communications Office said Now on its
• SANCHO TAN Seventeen-year-old Negrense Carmina Sanchez Tan recently competed in the 2025 Junior Olympic Championships in Arlington, Texas, United States at the Arlington ISD Athletics Center and Natatorium starting on June 28. The competition was organized by the USA
COASTAL ZONE. A drone shot of Danjugan Marine Reserve and Sanctuaries in Cauayan, Negros Occidental, which was the among the sites of Sipalay City’s recent Environment Month Celebration and Coastal Zone Convergence Week, where the city’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) managers were exposed to ecosystem-based management and reinforced their leadership as frontline stewards of MPAs.* Sipalay City LGU photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A total of 37 families, composed of 100 individuals, abandoned the evacuation center they were using on Monday in La Castellana, Negros, without the consent of the concerned local government unit. Donato Sermeno, regional director of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN With sugarcane farms in the islands of Negros and Panay already affected by the red-striped soft-scale insect (RSSI) infestation, the Sugar Regulatory Administration and farmers have joined hands to prevent the pests from infecting Mindanao, especially
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The declaration of Dumaguete City by the World Travel Index (WTI) as the Philippines’ Safest to visit in 2025, was attributed by the Police Regional Office – Negros Island Region to the sustained peace and order