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Quality of education

One interesting observation regarding secondary level education in the Philippines is that there seem to be more honor students these days. However, that does not jive with the results of the recent Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS)

7K security personnel to secure NIR during May 12 polls

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN About 7,000 personnel of the Philippine Army, National Police, and Coast Guard will secure the entire Negros Island Region during the May 12 elections, P/Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, Police Regional Office-NIR officer-in-charge disclosed on Monday.

Developer donates land for emergency facilities in Mandalagan

Rockwell Land Corporation is donating a 1,986-square-meter parcel of land to the City of Bacolod, which will serve as the future site of essential emergency facilities: a Fire Substation, a Bac-up Station, and a Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM)

P476K shabu seized in Bacolod

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Policemen arrested a suspected drug personality on Wednesday, during a buy bust operation at Country Homes Subdivision in Barangay Alijis, Bacolod City, leading to the confiscation of P476,000 worth of suspected shabu. Nabbed by operatives of

Baciwa Employees Union call for JVA revocation

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Baciwa Employees Union called for the revocation of the joint venture agreement (JVA) between Baciwa and PrimeWater, and the end of the privatization of all water utility firms. Leny Espina, BEU president, said they believe