The Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) confirmed yesterday that around 7,000 doses of anti-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines from Sinovac Biotech have been allocated to the city. Dr. Chris Sorongon, EOC deputy for medical, said that half of the vaccine allocation will arrive in the city on Sunday, March 7, and the remaining 3,500 …
Monthly Archives: March 2021
PAG-IBIG POSTS P31.18B NET INCOME IN 2020
Members earn 5.62% dividend rate on Regular Savings, 6.12% on MP2 Pag-IBIG Fund posted a net income of over P30 billion in 2020 for the fourth consecutive year despite the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, its top executives announced during the 2020 Pag-IBIG Fund Chairman’s Report held online on Wednesday, March 3. “I’m happy …
Negros, Iloilo dismantle foes in PCAP
BY ADRIAN STEWART CO Negros Kingsmen and Iloilo Kisela Knights dismantled their foes in the first conference of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) on Saturday night. The Kingsmen opened the evening with a 15-6 domination over the Pasig City King Pirates before scoring a 14-7 outlasting of the Quezon City Simba’s Tribe …
Negros vs Iloilo in superliga beach volleyball finale
By ADRIAN STEWART CO It will be Negros Occidental against Iloilo in the championship round of the 2021 Gatorade-Philippine Superliga (PSL) Superliga Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup at the Subic Bay sands court in Subic, Zambales. Abanse Negrense A pair of Alexa Polidario and Erjane Magdato punched the first championship ticket with a 21-18, 21-12 victory …
Brushing with Disaster
It is no doubt that we, humans, revere beautiful things. And we are not content in settling with something less than what we think we deserve. When God gave us our identifying physical features, we always have better ideas. He gave us resources for sustenance, and we want to convert it into something more pleasing- or profiting- …
LANDBANK lends P6.95 billion to MSMEs, co-ops for COVID relief
THE Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) has approved loans totaling P6.95 billion for 227 borrowers composed mostly of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives that are affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the I-RESCUE (Interim Rehabilitation Support to Cushion Unfavorably affected Enterprises by Covid-19) Lending Program, LANDBANK has released …
Free Leila
TOMORROW it shall be four years since Sen. Leila de Lima was arrested on non-bailable drug charges – filed by a government that took power on the promise that the drug menace would be licked in three to six months. One of those charges was dismissed last week for lack of evidence. The Philippines’ foreign …
13 ‘illegal gamblers’ lands in jail
BACOLOD City – For illegal gambling, 13 persons were arrested in Barangay Zone 6, Pulupandan Negros Occidental. Jane Verde; Marlene Guangco; Jasmine Chua; NeonitaCusit; Milagros Badella; GemanaTivis; Corazon Apostol; Jorich Pimentel; KarvinAlbana; BalApostol; Julius Rio; Jeric Alcala; and JanelouHermoso were caught playing pusoy, pares-pares and tong-itsaround 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 27, a police report showed. …
Bacolod’s performance in road clearing 2.0 ‘improved’
The performance of the Bacolod City government in the second wave of road clearing operations has “improved,” according to the Negros Occidental Validation Team headed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). This was reported by the Validation Team, headed by DILG- OIC Provincial Director Roselyn Quintana of DILG Negros Occidental, during …
Tapaz ‘kap’ gunned down in Calinog
Two unidentified motorcycle-riding assassins shot a village captain in Barangay Malitbog, Calinog, Iloilo. Julie Catamin, 49, of Barangay Roosevelt, Tapaz, Capiz succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds, police said. According to initial police investigation, Catamin was on his way home when attacked around 8:45 a.m. on Sunday. According to reports, some members of the Criminal Investigation …