A female drug suspect from Bacolod City was arrested following a buy-bust operation at Purok 11, Taytay Tanate in Himamaylan City’s Barangay Aguisan around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Himamaylan City police OIC chief, Police Major Romeo Vargas, identified the suspect as 46-year-old Wilma Satur of Purok Kagaykay, Barangay 2, Bacolod City. The suspect yielded four …
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Both delicate and tough
Especially in discussing highly contentious issues, like the political and social ones, all parties involved should try to be both delicate and tough. This is how we can conduct our discussions in a way that is positive, fruitful and constructive. We need to be delicate because more than issues, what are involved are persons who …
Man shot dead inside house
A man was shot dead Tuesday evening, October 6, in his house at Sitio Hinagupitan in Escalante City’s Barangay Dian-ay. Escalante City police said the victim identified as 65-year-old Warlito Pabuaya died of multiple gunshot wounds. Investigation revealed that Pabuaya was inside their house preparing for dinner with his wife when a gunshot was heard. …
‘We sink or we swim together’
“I’m tired of being behind this virus. We’ve been behind this virus from day one. We underestimated this virus. It’s more powerful, it’s more dangerous than we expected.” – Andrew Cuomo While the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency 6 (PDEA-6) has cleared 64 additional Western Visayas villages of illegal drugs through the “barangay drug-clearing deliberation process,” …
The 2020 Human Capital Index Report
People are a nation’s key resource. The healthier, better-educated and empowered a population is, the more likely a nation will be prosperous and developed. This is what the Human Capital Index (HCI) is about. The HCI is a regular World Bank report that ranks countries according to how well they develop the economic and professional …
Lifestyle checks, SALN dapat ituloy
“Bakit sinasabi ng mga tagapagturo ng Kautusan na ang Cristo ay anak ni David?… Si David na rin ang tumawag sa kanya ng Panginoon; paano siya magiging anak ni David?” – Si Jesus, sa Marcos 12:35-37, Ang Tanging Daan Bibliya Ang mga alituntunin sa lifestyle check ng mga opisyales at kawani ng gobyerno at sa …
What’s in store for the last quarter’s economy
Millions of Filipinos are in a quandary as to the state of the people’s lives in the last three months of the year. The people are praying that government leaders and politicians are able to play it well better sans political motives in their mindset. With just a year before massive political campaigns for the …
10 Negrense players to suit up in PBA restart
By Adrian Stewart Co Negros Occidental will be well-represented in the restart of 2020 PBA Philippine Cup on Sunday, October 11, at the Angeles University Foundation Gym in Pampanga with 10 players who traced their roots from the province being lined up. Based on the lineup released by PBA on Wednesday, five of the Negrense …
Joint venture is valid, legal –BACIWA chairman
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The joint venture agreement entered into by the Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) and PrimeWater Infrastructure Corp. (PIC) is clearly regular, valid and legal, BACIWA Board Chairman, Atty. Lorendo K. Dilag, said in a statement yesterday. “In OGCC Opinion No. 126, Series of 2020, the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) entered …
Lacson signs MOA for 3rd batch of free scholarship
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and University of St. La Salle (USLS)-Bacolod President and Chancellor, Bro. Joaquin Severino Martinez, led the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement for the third batch of Project Free – Paglaum Scholarship Program at USLS’s St. Brother Miguel Hall yesterday. Other signatories were Bishop …