The Department of Agriculture Region 6 (DA-6) recently turned over one unit of rice combine harvester worth P2.2 million and five units of granule applicators amounting to P240,000.00 to Sara Facoma Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Sara, Iloilo. DA-6 Regional Executive Director Remelyn R. Recoter said that the cooperative was granted these machineries as their reward for …
Monthly Archives: January 2021
4 Iloilo City cops test positive for COVID-19
Four police officers and a female non-uniformed personnel (NUP) of the La Paz Police Station in Iloilo City’s La Paz district tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. According to La Paz police chief, Police Captain Edfil Balibadlan, the five underwent reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests last Friday, January 15, and their positive …
Staggering police incompetence
Initial police pronouncements declared without qualification that the case of Christine Angelica Dacera was a rape-slay perpetrated by a gang of 11 men. Public vilification of the alleged malefactors quickly followed. Rape with homicide is a heinous crime deserving of the severest of penalties. Social media reaction was instantaneously unforgiving. A gang-rape brings up mental …
Be welcoming to our differences and conflicts
Yes, instead of being afraid, irritated and stressed out whenever we have differences and conflicts with others, let’s be welcoming to them and take advantage of them. A lot of good can actually be derived from them, even if we are not exempted from being pained and mortified by them. Our differences and conflicts, which …
‘High value’ drug target arrested in Bacolod
A resident of Bacolod City’s Barangay Vista Alegre faces charges for violation of Republic Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. Police said Edwin Salmingo, tagged as a “high-value” drug target, was arrested following a buy-bust operation in his residence around 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 16. Officers of the Police Station …
Leonardia joins ceremonial signing for AstraZeneca vaccine donations
Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia was among the invited guests to the January 14 ceremonial signing for the national government to accept donations from the private sector of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The ceremonial signing was part of the second wave of private sector’s efforts to help the national government secure more COVID vaccines for Filipinos. …
Lacson in favor of Cha-cha for economic provisions
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson is in favor of Charter Change (Cha-cha) for as long as it will tinker only on the economic provisions of the Constitution. “I am for Cha-cha as far as the economic provision is concerned,” he said. Lacson made the statement as the issue is …
PHO urges vigilance vs new COVID-19 variant
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Provincial Health Office (PHO) in Negros Occidental urged Negrenses to be more vigilant after it was confirmed earlier this week that the United Kingdom (UK) variant of coronavrius disease 2019, or COVID-19, has already entered the country. PHO head, Dr. Ernell Tumimbang, said the new variant is far more …
NegOcc is 7th richest province in PH
Negros Occidental was among the 10 richest provinces in the Philippines, according to the Commission on Audit’s (COA) 2019 Annual Financial Report on Local Government Units released on Thursday, January 14. Based on COA’s report, Negros Occidental made it to No. 7 in the list, with assets reaching to P15.901 billion. Iloilo province, meanwhile, had …
Manapla man nabbed for drugs in Iloilo
A native of Manapla town in Negros Occidental was arrested in a drug buy-bust operation at Barangay MV Hechanova in Iloilo province’s Leganes town on Friday afternoon. Police identified the suspect as 43-year-old Dindo Trinilla of Manapla town’s Barangay San Pablo. Officers of the Leganes Police Station confiscated six sachets of suspected shabu, including a …