By Jerome S. Galunan, Jr. The championship round for March of the Tenpin Masters Challenge (TMC) Season 3 begins at the East Bowling Center at the Lopue’s East Centre in Bacolod City. Herman Santos, who captured the September 2016 title, is the current top seed with 1,330 pin falls, followed by Virgilio Arcolas with 1,309. …
Monthly Archives: March 2017
The sugar industry and the government’s preference for socialism
In recent days, the province witnessed the local sugar industry, along with local leaders, take a stand against Coca-Cola over their use of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Labor groups and their allies rallied outside the bottling plant of the beverage maker and burned an effigy in the image of Department of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel …
Filipino Witnesses appeal to Russian officials versus labeling JWs as extremists
In response to the Russian government’s threat to ban them in Russia, the more than 3,000 congregations and 200,000 members of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Philippines have joined a worldwide letter-writing campaign calling for Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and other government officials to intervene in a case that seeks to declare the religious organization …
PRO-18 chief dares former NOPPO Director on threat to shoot himself
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga After former Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOPPO) director, Police Senior Superintendent William Señoron, declared he would shoot himself if the allegations linking him to illegal drugs were proven true, Police Regional Office-18 (PRO-18) Director, Police Chief Superintendent Renato Gumban, said, “Just do it.” “You said that, you should do …
President expedites the release of Martial Law reparations
By Paulo Loreto Lim After President Rodrigo Duterte met with officers of the Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board (HRVCB) and the Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA), who had previously requested the president expedite the processing of claims, a preliminary list of 4,000 qualified Martial Law reparations recipients was released. The meeting …
Diocese to Duterte: Bow to the Constitution
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga In response to the proposal by President Rodrigo Duterte to postpone barangay elections and appoint officials instead, the Diocese of Bacolod yesterday advised the president to follow the Constitution. According to Diocese social communications head and San Sebastian Cathedral Rector, Fr. Felix Pasquin, as a public official, along with all …
Bacolod, Iloilo named among the ‘best cities to live in the Philippines’
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga According to The Conyo Times, a YouTube channel focused on local pop culture, Bacolod City and Iloilo City were named among their “Best Cities to live in the Philippines.” Bacolod City topped the ranks based on, according to one of the channel’s recent videos, “a rapid growth in tourism and …
4Ps rice subsidies cost P2.5B for one month –Palace Official
By Paulo Loreto Lim In a recent press conference, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella announced Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries will begin receiving P600 rice subsidies this month from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). “The additional rice subsidy allocated for the month of March has already totaled to P2.5 billion,” he said. …
Ombudsman takes up TFC inquiry into Hinoba-an infrastructure projects
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Ombudsman for the Visayas took up the inquiry posed by the Task Force Crusaders (TFC) questioning two “questionable” infrastructure projects in Hinoba-an. Hinoba-an Mayor Ernesto Estrao has been given five days by the Ombudsman to respond to questions raised by TFC National Deputy Commander John Chiong surrounding the P17 …
Former Himamaylan City police chief denies receiving money from Berya group
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Former Himamaylan City Police chief, Police Superintendent Antonietto Cañete, denied allegations by former Berya drug group member Ricky Serenio accusing him of receiving protection money. In a radio interview yesterday, he denied receiving protection money at a shopping mall in Bacolod City in 2016, and challenged Serenio to a one-on-one …