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Fuel prices going up today

Fuel prices are set to increase today, as oil firms announced price hikes of below P1. In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Jetti, Petro Gazz, Seaoil, and Shell said they will increase gasoline by 60 centavos per liter and diesel prices

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Gated community breaks ground in Bago City

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A premier gated community will soon rise in Barangay Lag-asan, Bago City, Negros Occidental. Glicerio Intengan and his wife, Ma. Angelina Valencia led their family, along with Marjorie Intengan Masangkay and Ma. Alexa Intengan, and Bago

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Concentrix to expand Turo Guro Program to Bacolod

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Global services and technology leader and Philippines’ largest private employer Concentric launched its Turo Guro Program last year and is targeting to expand it to 40 schools, which include two from Bacolod City, before the year

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Oil palm plantation generates 500+ jobs in Candoni

Over 500 jobs have been created in the municipality of Candoni, through the development of Hacienda Asia Plantations Inc. (HAPI), a company managing an oil palm operation in southern Negros Occidental. According to a press release, the project aims to

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With faith, miracles can happen

That’s the conclusion we can draw from that gospel episode where a woman with a 12-year illness was cured instantly, and a dead girl was made to rise back to life again. (cfr. Mt 9,18-26) These two miraculous events highlight

Cadiz mayor takes oath for third term

As he took his oath for his third and final term as top honcho of Cadiz City on July 4, alongside other winning local officials in the May 12 polls, Cadiz Mayor Salvador Escalante, Jr. committed anew to make their

P8M in smuggled cigarettes abandoned, seized in Bacolod

• 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

Photo of the Day

STILL RESTIVE. A seemingly peaceful Kanlaon Volcano, as photographed from Murcia, Negros Occidental, remains under Alert Level 3, still under the shadow of the threat of a sudden explosive eruption.* Andrew Altarejos photo

Sagay artist explores child’s imagination at McCafe exhibit

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO “In art, imagination does not stay still. A child may have no riches, no power, no crown, only his art and limitless imagination that runs untamed.” Sagay-based visual artist Christopher Fernandez of Topiko’s Art opened his

Capitol to reopen La Carlota hemodialysis center

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson yesterday assured patients that hemodialysis center at the Don Salvador Benedicto Memorial District Hospital in La Carlota City will reopen in two weeks time. Patients earlier expressed alarm at the