“…’Very truly I tell you,’ Jesus answered, ‘Before Abraham was born, I am!’…” –John 8:58 I am urging the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, before beginning the importation of pork (which Department of Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol appears to be proposing), take an honest-to-goodness inventory of the country’s real need for pork from …
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Two Negrenses battle for WBO belt this weekend
By Jerome S. Galunan, Jr. Donnie ‘Ahas’ Nietes of Murcia is set to meet Bago City-born boxer Aston ‘Mighty’ Palicte this weekend, September 8, at The Forum in Inglewood, California, in the United States, where the two Negrense fighters will battle for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) super flyweight title. Nietes’ last bout …
OPA reports more than 3MT rice harvest in Antique
The Office of the Provincial Agriculture (OPA) reported Friday an early harvest of 3,375.31 metric tons in several towns of Antique for the first cropping season. OPA Rice Report Officer Ma. Lourdes Fortaleza said the harvest was from the 58.65 hectares rice area in the towns of Barbaza, Hamtic, and in Sibalom. This contributed a …
Bacolod City planning ‘healthy lifestyle campaign’ for PCL Week
With Philippine Councilors League (PCL) Week underway, PCL-Bacolod City chapter president, City Councilor Em Ang, said a “healthy lifestyle campaign” is planned for the entire observance, which began on Saturday and runs until Friday, September 7. She noted, Supreme Student Government officers from city schools will observe a Sangguniang Panlungsod session on Wednesday, while a …
Provincial government offering welding scholarship
The Negros Occidental Scholarship Program (NOSP) is offering a scholarship for 100 local students to participate in a 40-day welding training. NOSP head Karen Dinsay said the program will prepare potential welders to work overseas, with an emphasis on Japan. Eligible candidates must be Negros Occidental residents, at least 21 years old, and a high …
PHITEX 2018 pre-event tour underway in Bacolod City
Bacolod City is currently hosting the pre-event tour for Philippine Travel Exchange (PHITEX) 2018, with a welcome dinner last night at the Bacolod City Government Center. “We are excited that the Tourism Promotions Board has selected Bacolod City to be one of the 10 destinations to be visited by the international delegates,” said Bacolod City …
Rains inundate portions of Bacolod City
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Several areas in Bacolod City were inundated yesterday due to nonstop rains caused by an enhanced southwest monsoon brought about by a typhoon outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility. Based on a weather bulletin issued by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), Typhoon “Maymay” was last …
Puentevella: Bacolod City Charter Day bill will not pass the Senate
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Former Bacolod City Mayor Monico Puentevella yesterday said he expects the house bill seeking to move the city’s Charter Day from October 19 to June 18 will not pass the Senate, pointing out, no public hearings over the matter were ever held in the city and the National Historical …
Even if homes were awarded, they should still go to the homeless –Kadamay
Luminos: Informal settlers are ‘qualified beneficiaries’ By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) yesterday reiterated their plans to occupy government housing units intended for active members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) at Purok Guanzon, J.J. Gonzaga in Barangay Felisa, Bacolod City, …
PRO-6 director urges Moises Padilla vice mayor, husband to surrender
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Police Regional Office-6 (PRO-6) director, Police Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao, yesterday appealed for Moises Padilla Vice Mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo and her husband, Felix Mathias Segundo Yulo, to surrender to police after a warrant of arrest was recently issued against the couple. Bulalacao said they have to follow the court’s …