By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has recently completed the P45.94-million widening of the Bacolod-Silay Airport Access Road (BSAAR) in Silay City, Negros Occidental. The project involves the widening of the access road from two lanes to four lanes with the width of three meters. Although hampered by …
Monthly Archives: November 2020
NegOcc gov’t, PCG to send aid to typhoon victims
Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) transports 200 sacks of rice, five sacks of sugar and 50 boxes of noodles to the Philippine National Police national headquarters which will be distributed to the victims of Super Typhoon “Rolly” and Typhoon “Ulysses.” (PRO-6 photos) By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The provincial government of Negros Occidental and the …
2 drug offenders nabbed in Cadiz City
Two men were arrested following a drug buy-bust operation 1:10 p.m. on Monday, November 16, at Villa Cristina in Cadiz City’s Barangay Zone 1. Police identified the suspects as 26-year-old Cris Flores and 34-year-old Romeo Lagdamat, both residents of the said village. Cadiz City police confiscated five heat-sealed sachets of suspected shabu, including a buy-bust item, …
Pedicab driver stabbed to death
A pedicab driver was stabbed to death by a fellow driver around 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, November 15, in Bacolod city’s Barangay 3. The 41-year-old Dennis Panigue of the said village sustained multiple stab wounds on the body which resulted to his death, police said. Police Station 2 investigation revealed that the victim and the suspect, …
15 persons arrested for illegal gambling
Fifteen individuals were arrested on Monday, November 16, after police caught them playing mahjong and ‘tong-its’ in Barangay Alinsolong, located in Batad, Iloilo. Authorities identified the arrested as Gerly Bones, Rosa Tomo, Janice dela Cruz, Iris Canoday, Joseph Fabiantes, Charlene Descalso, Cherry Faviantes, Ann Marie Calderon, Airen Blanker, Celsa Bitoren, Lolita Sanchez, Alma Balida, Lorena …
Iloilo City’s Uswag COVID-19 lab passes proficiency test
Iloilo City’s newly-opened molecular laboratory in Molo district passed the proficiency test administered by the Department of Health-Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. Based on Proficiency Test Result, the Uswag Iloilo City Molecular Laboratory got a final and perfect score of 100 percent. The test procedures performed include Nucleic Acid Extraction, PCR Mastermix Preparation, Real Time …
Sugar and oral health (Part 2)
We dwell on sugar and oral health at this point in time of the pandemic because for some if not many of us, there is a slight chance, or maybe more, that we have been bingeing on sugary foods and drinks during lockdowns. We are aware, of course, that for many of our countrymen, putting …
God’s original and ultimate will
God’s original will for us has not changed at all despite the mess we created. That original will continues to be his ultimate will for us. And that is that we truly become his image and likeness, meant to share in his life and nature in our definitive status which we hope to obtain at …
No Filipino yet in Biden cabinet
“To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.” – Nigel Lawson Filipina billionaire Loida Nicolas-Lewis “will be recognized” for her contributions in helping fire up the Filipino-American support and votes for the Biden-Harris tandem in the recent U.S. Presidential Elections 2020, but there …
Filipina Animam shines in Taiwan basketball league
By Adrian Stewart Co Filipina center Jack Animam had a solid debut as Shih Hsin University cruised to a 115-44 annihilation of Taiwan University in the University Basketball Alliance on Monday at the Taiwan University of Science and Technology Gym. The former National University Lady Bulldogs center hardly showed any rust as she tallied 18 …