By Adrian Stewart Co The Colegio de Sta. Ana de Victorias/Role Finance Festival of Chess is scheduled to take place today, January 19, at Metro Lobby, located on the fourth floor of the Ayala Capitol Central Mall in Bacolod City. The tournament will be divided into categories including 10 & Under and 16 & …
Monthly Archives: January 2019
NBTC 3×3 opens today at STI-WNU
By Adrian Stewart Co The Chooks-to-Go National Basketball Training Center 3×3 Basketball League-Bacolod leg starts today, January 19, at the STI-West Negros University (STI-WNU) gym with teams competing in either the Born 2001 or Born 1999 divisions. The team participating in the Born 2001 division include STI-WNU, Bacolod Tay Tung High School, St. John’s …
Bacolod City to host eight Pacquiao-Broner viewing sites
By Adrian Stewart Co Bacolod City will be providing eight venues this Sunday, January 20, for the public to view Senator Manny Pacquiao’s World Boxing Association welterweight title defense against Adrien Broner for free. According to Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia, who is in Las Vegas for the bout, a free livestream will be …
Columbian Dyip stuns San Miguel
By Adrian Stewart Co Jaymar Perez proved to be as good as advertised after lifting Columbian Dyip to a 124-118 stunner over the San Miguel Beermen in the 2019 Honda PBA Philippine Cup last night at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City. The top overall pick in the 2018 PBA Rookie Draft did not …
Bacolod City to host eight Pacquiao-Broner viewing sites
By Adrian Stewart Co Bacolod City will be providing eight venues this Sunday, January 20, for the public to view Senator Manny Pacquiao’s World Boxing Association welterweight title defense against Adrien Broner for free. According to Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia, who is in Las Vegas for the bout, a free livestream will be …
Pacquiao’s legitimate title war in an illegitimate governing body
“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took, and your name in the undertaker book.” –Joe Frazier At 40 years old, Senator Manny Pacquiao is one of few boxing champions to defend a title against a younger opponent. He is about to eclipse Irish-Canadian world welterweight champion Jimmy …
‘Buut’ as a moving force in one’s behavior
While at a coffee shop along Lacson Street, I heard a politician discussing strategies for the upcoming midterm elections, where he kept stressing: “Buut, kabubut-un sang pumuluyo, pagbuut sang Diyos” – if you’re wondering why I use the word “buut” instead of “buot,” it’s because I am using Professor John U. Wolff’s 1972 Cebuano Visayan …
Proposed San Carlos City coal plant continues to face opposition
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Diocese of San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, along with several Negros-based environmental groups, held a press conference yesterday afternoon to express their continued opposition to the proposed 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in San Carlos City. According to Alminaza, the Catholic Church supports the protection of the common good and …
Army commander urges joint condemnation of NPA atrocities
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Philippine Army 303rd Infantry Brigade (303IB) commander, Colonel Benedict Arevalo, yesterday urged the Negros Occidental local government units to jointly condemn atrocities committed by the New People’s Army (NPA). In a radio interview, Arevalo said locales throughout the province should condemn any NPA actions against the government and populace. …
Bishop says public should not take Duterte’s church tirades seriously
Alminaza: Other religious denominations face similar problems By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Diocese of San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza yesterday said people should not take President Rodrigo Duterte’s tirades against the Catholic Church seriously. He said they are already getting used to Duterte’s criticisms and the president’s spokesperson already affirmed several times that …