By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga An alleged drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation at Purok Sigay, Barangay 2, Bacolod City, yesterday afternoon. Police identified the suspect as 54-year-old Emil Nicolas, a resident of the said barangay. Police Station 2 (PS2) commander, Police Chief Inspector Benedicto Villarias, said they recovered four elongated and one …
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Nabbed ex-NBI employee linked to Berya group transferred to BJMP
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Bacolod employee Rodolfo “Boy” Gamuyao was transferred by NBI personnel, yesterday, to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) facility in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City. Reports over local radio station Aksyon Radyo-Bacolod said Gamuyao was earlier arrested on April 19 at the Terra Plaza …
PC bowlers capture inter-squad duckpin title
By Jerome S. Galunan Jr. PC bowlers captured the crown of the just-concluded 3rd Kami Mga Hubin Inter-squad Trios Duckpin Bowling League at the Goldenfield Commercial Complex Super Lanes in Bacolod City. The win was PC’s first major achievement since they started to participate in the KMH-organized bowling event, last year. The PC squad composed …
NOFA 12 & Under Invitational: Don Bosco Cebu, Jaro & Barotac rule Day-2
By Jerome S. Galunan Jr. Visiting teams from Cebu and Iloilo displayed much talent in the second day of the 2017 Negros Occidental Football Association (NOFA) 12 and Under Invitational Cup at the Sta. Maria football field in Talisay City. Don Bosco Cebu came out with a solid game yesterday morning in Group A by …
Negros First inter-hacienda softball league opens today
By Jerome S. Galunan Jr. Aimed to re-establish Negros Occidental as one of the country’s seed-beds of best softball players, the Negros First Gov. Freddie Marañon Inter-Hacienda Softball League is set to open today at the Hda. Lourdes Ballpark in Manapla town. Twelve softball teams from Manapla, Cadiz City and Bacolod City are up for …
The mayor is his brother’s keeper
“Only younger brothers will understand me. We’re following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.” – Wladimir Klitschko Blood is thicker than water. Now a full-pledged politician as head …
Sugar stakeholders express concern over low sugar prices
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Sugar planters in Negros Occidental remain concerned as to what the sugar industry will face in the coming crop year as composite prices of sugar are still down at P1,200 to P1,250. Lawyer Emilio Yulo, spokesperson of the Sugar Alliance of the Philippines (SAP), in a statement, said they are …
TFC urges speaker, DOH to probe health insurance fraud
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The local chapter of an anti-corruption and crime group in Bacolod City has called on Health Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial and Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez to investigate an alleged health insurance fraud. In a letter dated April 6 this year sent to Ubial and Alvarez, John Chiong, national deputy commander of …
‘Surprised’ Stephen bucks taxes on sugar-sweetened drinks, other items on tax reform package
By Dominique Gabriel G. Banaga Abang Lingkod Party list Rep. Stephen Paduano expressed surprise over the inclusion of sugar-sweetened beverages in the government’s tax reform package that had already passed the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives. Paduano, a native of Bacolod City, said he also bucked the imposition of excise taxes …
DENR-NIR, City launch greening program for Bacolod
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Negros Island Region (DENR-NIR) and the city government of Bacolod have inked a memorandum of agreement to launch a massive ‘greening’ program for Bacolod City. The program dubbed by Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia as the Bacolod City Urban Development Greening Program aims to …