Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and 6th District Board Member Jeffrey Tubola led the distribution of cash assistance worth a total of P458,000 to the district’s residents who are recipients of medical and burial aids yesterday morning at the Barangay Talubangi Covered Court in Kabankalan City. Lacson thanked Tubola for initiating valuable projects that …
Monthly Archives: May 2021
NegOcc, Bacolod receive 6K vials of Sinovac vaccines
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental and Bacolod City yesterday received an additional shipment of CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccines made by Chinese biotech company Sinovac. The vaccines arrived via a Cebu Pacific Air flight from Manila around 8:00 a.m. The batch contained a total of 6,000 vials, 3,000 of which are for Bacolod City and …
Travel ban between Panay, Negros unlikely –biz group
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The head of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) believes the seven-day travel moratorium for Iloilo and Negros sought by Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas has a low chance of getting the approval of the National Inter-Agency Task Force (NIATF). MBCCI Chief Executive Officer Frank Carbon pointed …
Capitol workers infected with COVID-19 now at 43
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Negros Occidental provincial government recorded four additional employees who tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, bringing the total cases in the provincial government to 43. Provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, said the new infections include an executive assistant, a department head, a job order casual assigned at …
GERI properties in Alabang, Boracay and Antipolo sold fast in Q1
P4.4-B reservation sales booked in first quarter as company’s net income rose to P300-million Megaworld subsidiary Global-Estate Resorts, Inc. (GERI), the Philippines’ leading developer of master-planned integrated tourism estates, booked P4.4-billion in reservation sales during the first quarter of the year, a remarkable 104% surge compared to the same period last year, as the company …
Man hacked to death in Pontevedra
A 38-year-old man was hacked dead by his cousin on Sunday, May 16, at Sitio Cabug, Barangay Pandan in Pontevedra, Negros Occidental. Police said the victim identified as Teofilo Semillano, a resident of the place, sustained multiple hack wounds on the body. He was brought to the Don Salvador Benedicto District Hospital in La Carlota …
Cusi underscores DOE efforts towards energy sustainability
The Department of Energy (DOE) is taking steps to achieve energy sustainability, according to Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi. “All options in power sourcing should be considered, including the possibility of tapping nuclear energy in the future,” said Cusi, who was in Bacolod City last Thursday, May 13. Cusi met with Mayor Evelio Leonardia and other …
The teleological mind
To have a teleological mind can also mean that anything that happens is due to some purpose or design of things in general. Nothing happens by mere chance. Everything has a reason, no matter how unreasonable things may seem to us at the moment. The word “teleological” may sound Greek to us at the moment. …
PhilHealth owes Iloilo City hospitals, lab over P860-M
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) owes at least P860,493,324.85 unpaid claims to nine hospitals and the USWAG Molecular Laboratory in Iloilo City. Mayor Jerry P. Treñas disclosed the PhilHealth payables in his letter to Department of Health (DOH) Secretary and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Chairperson Francisco Duque III, vaccine czar Sec. Carlito G. Galvez …
The Widespread Epidemic of Discrimination
The COVID-19 pandemic, which was said to originate from Wuhan, China escalated the discrimination and outrage against Asians, mostly to the Chinese community. And even Filipinos and other Asian natives are not spared from the nightmare. Imagine being in a foreign country, walking home from work, just minding your own business. Then from out of …