By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A 16-year-old was hospitalized late Tuesday night after allegedly being mauled by an unidentified group in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City. Police refused to identify the victim, but revealed they are a resident of Purok Riverside in the city’s Barangay Montevista. Based on the victim’s statement to police, while accompanied …
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Dumaguete City, Boracay hotels among Agoda Gold Circle Award recipients
Travel company Agoda recently named its Agoda Gold Circle Award recipients with two hotels in Dumaguete City and two in Boracay among the total 62 winners from the Philippines. Dumaguete City’s Atmosphere Resorts and Spa and the Salaya Beach Houses, along with Fairways and Bluewater Newcoast Boracay and the Astoria Boracay, were recognized for “elite …
Water Advisory
Water Interruption in the Service Area The Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) will be conducting service improvements, which will cause a temporary water supply interruption and/or turbid water in some portions of the service area. Activity: Installation of gate valve at East Homes 2 Schedule: Today (November 15), from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 …
Dumangas child successfully undergoes heart surgery in South Korea
A five-year-old child from Dumangas, Iloilo recently underwent surgery in South Korea to repair a large patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), or a hole in the aorta, the largest artery in the body that acts as the heart’s pumping chamber. A hole in that part of the body forces the heart and lungs to work harder …
Vice gubernatorial candidate drops out of race
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Former Negros Occidental fourth district Rep. Jeffrey Ferrer is officially running unopposed in the upcoming 2019 elections after independent candidate Raul Sayson Baterna withdrew his candidacy for vice governor. A formal statement of withdrawal was received by the Commission on Elections provincial office in Bacolod City earlier this week. …
Presidential Adviser: Negros remains ‘sensitive’ to insurgency
By Paulo Loreto Lim While speaking at a Philippine Press Institute seminar-workshop in Cebu City yesterday, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said, given recent violent incidents across the island, Negros continues to be vulnerable to unrest. “Negros is still a sensitive area with regard to insurgency,” he said. He also said …
November observed as Traditional and Alternative Health Care Month
Every November in the Philippines is Traditional and Alternative Health Care Month, which was created by Presidential Proclamation 698 in 2004 by then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as a means of recognizing certain methods of “preventing and healing a wide variety of diseases.” According to RA 8423, or the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997, traditional …
Armed men attack construction site in Alangilan
Leonardia denies ownership of the property By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga An unidentified group of armed men reportedly attacked a construction site late Tuesday night at Sitio Las Altas, Purok 12A in Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City. Based on a report by Police Station 5 (PS5), around five armed individuals were attacking the said …
Negros Occidental acquires farm machines, dump trucks
The province of Negros Occidental has acquired P9.2 million worth of agricultural machinery to boost its farm mechanization program. Japhet Masculino, head of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA), on Monday said the machinery delivered last weekend are now housed at the Rice Processing Complex at Barangay Tabunan in Bago City. The equipment include …
Korean ambassador to speak at UNO-R today
Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Han Dong-man is scheduled to speak at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos today at the school’s President’s Hall. His speech will focus on bilateral relations between South Korea and the Philippines. The event will be preceded with an opening prayer and the singing of the Philippine and South Korean national …