With God, everything is taken care of. What we cannot take care, God will do it for us. Of course, God’s ways are not our ways. They may differ greatly from what we like to happen, but definitely God will take care of everything. I was very moved and impressed when a young man, now …
Monthly Archives: April 2021
Another option against COVID 19?
Ivermectin is a drug under the Essential Medicines List of both the Philippine FDA and the World Health Organization (WHO). However, it must be emphasized that it was approved as an anti-parasitic VETERINARY medicine. The recent alarming upsurge of COVID-19 in the country, the very slow arrival of approved vaccines and the consequent delay in …
Negrense Manday gets tender offer from SMB
By Adrian Stewart Co Negrense guard Jeffrey Manday’s dream of stepping in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) stage is still alive after receiving a tender offer from the San Miguel Beermen (SMB). The Bacolod City-native Manday was one of the four players selected by the Beermen during last month’s PBA Season 46 Rookie Draft who …
Lakers manhandle Raptors
By Adrian Stewart Co Los Angeles Lakers vented its ire on Toronto Raptors with a 110-101 beating in the 2020-2021 NBA Season on Tuesday night (Wednesday in the Philippines) at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. Talen Horton-Tucker top-scored with 17 points, while Markieff Morris added 15 points and nine rebounds as the defending champions …
PDEA, BOC strengthen NegOcc border controls
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Negros Occidental and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) will strengthen border controls through the deployment of Narcotic Detection Dogs. The move was discussed yesterday by the members of PDEA-Negros K-9 Unit during its courtesy visit to Bureau of Customs Collector Renevic Soliman held …
NegOcc, Bacolod get addt’l COVID-19 vaccines
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The provincial government of Negros Occidental and the city government of Bacolod have received additional doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccines yesterday morning. Of the 7,200 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, which arrived at the Bacolod-Silay Airport via a Cebu Pacific cargo flight, 5,200 were immediately handed over to the provincial government …
Bomb hoax alarms Bacolod City Hall of Justice
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Bacolod City Hall of Justice was evacuated yesterday morning following a bomb threat received by an employee over the phone. The Bacolod City Hall of Justice was evacuated yesterday morning after they received a bomb threat from an unidentified individual around 8:00 a.m. After two hours of searching, the …
Lacson releases P6M worth of barangay projects
Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson led the distribution of checks worth a total of P6 million for the implementation of various projects in the different barangays of Negros Occidental. The activity was held at the Capitol Social Hall on Monday morning and attended by the respective punong barangays and local government unit authorized representatives. The beneficiary …
Iloilo City bans non- essential gatherings
Effective today all mass and non-essential gatherings are prohibited, unless lifted or modified, in Iloilo City. This was contained in Executive Order No. 033 issued by Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, providing the new guidelines on inbound travel to Iloilo City and additional health intervention measures. Treñas said this in preparation to the lifting of the …
2 drug suspects nabbed in Brgy. Mansilingan
Two drug suspects were arrested following a drug buy-bust operation in Bacolod City’s Barangay Mansilingan on Monday night. Authorities identified the arrested as 21-year-old Jessa Quillan and 28-year-old Jonel Aguilar, both residents of the city. Officers of the Police Station 7 confiscated three plastic sachets of suspected shabu valued at P27,200 and P300 in buy-bust …