“HIV stigma is not just retro, it’s wrong… I urge you to join me in taking a stand and leaving this stigma where it belongs, in the past.” –UK Prime Minister Theresa May Last week, the Bacolod City Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution approving the observance of World AIDS Day in the city today, …
Monthly Archives: December 2017
P10.9M road inaugurated in Murcia
Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon, Jr. led yesterday’s inauguration of the 900-meter Murcia-Granada road project, which cost the provincial government nearly P11 million, unveiling a marker at Hacienda Binitin in the municipality’s Barangay Binitin. A ribbon-cutting took place on a stretch of the road to be referred to as Ming Yuan Avenue. Present alongside the …
NPA claims responsibility for Kabankalan City quarry attack
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The New People’s Army (NPA) Armando Sumayang Command released a statement yesterday afternoon, claiming responsibility for the recent attack on a quarry site in Barangay Orong, Kabankalan City over the weekend. According to the release, the quarry operators were found guilty by their people’s court on behalf of barangay residents …
Zoning change for Hinoba-an industrial project pending before Provincial Board –Mayor
Estrao: Local residents must be compensated By Paulo Loreto Lim According to Hinoba-an Mayor Ernesto Estrao, the approval to convert nearly 300 hectares of agricultural land into industrial space in municipal Barangays Obong and Salvacion is still pending before the Negros Occidental Provincial Board. In addition, the town’s Barangay Bacuyangan is also home to land …
Eight homes destroyed in Bago City blaze
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga At least eight homes were confirmed destroyed after a fire broke out along Torres Street at Purok Kapayas, Barangay Poblacion in Bago City, early Wednesday morning. Arson investigators from the Bago City Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said the fire reportedly started in a home owned by Regie Guizihan and …
City Legal Office to Puentevella: ‘Supporters’ are different from ‘voters’
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Legal Office head, Atty. Joselito Bayatan, following the recent decision by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to dismiss with finality the electoral protest by former Bacolod City Mayor Monico Puentevella, yesterday responded to claims by the former mayor regarding the number of supporters questioning the result of the …
Taiwan-national, 11 others attempt hostile takeover of Goldenfields Bar
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A Taiwan-national, identified as Han Suan Chang, along with 11 “guards,” reportedly attempted a hostile takeover of a bar at the Goldenfields Commercial Complex in Barangay Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City, yesterday morning. Based on a report by the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO), Chang and his associates entered the establishment, owned …
Six incumbent, former Bacolod City Councilors suspended
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas ordered the 30-day suspension of six incumbent and former Bacolod City councilors on the grounds of simple neglect. The three city officials currently in office, City Councilors Em Ang, Wilson Gamboa, Jr., and Sonya Verdeflor, were served suspension orders from the Department ofthe Interior and …
Candoni man gunned down by riding-in-tandem
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon by riding-in-tandem suspects in front of Quirico G. Manzano Memorial National High School in Candoni, Negros Occidental. Police identified the fatality as 39-year-old Jerzon Tamises, a resident of the said town. An initial investigation by Candoni municipal police said Tamises was in …
SP extends congratulations to local ‘topnotchers’
By Paulo Loreto Lim A pair of resolutions passed by the Bacolod City Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during their regular session yesterday extended congratulations to local graduates who were among the “Top 10” in their respective board and licensure examinations. Among those included were “topnotchers” John Cyril Claur of the University of St. La Salle (USLS), …