Metro Retail Stores Group Inc. opened its newest supermarket in the southernmost part of Bacolod City on Friday, June 11. The Metro Sum-ag Supermarket is the third Metro store to open in Negros Occidental and the 58th overall for the top retailer. Located along Araneta Street (National Highway) in Barangay Sum-ag, considered to be the …
Monthly Archives: June 2021
WV new COVID cases hit highest in a day at 828
Western Visayas recorded its new highest number of coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, cases in one day yesterday at 828, bringing the total active cases in the region to 10,050. Department of Health’s COVID-19 Regional Case Bulletin No. 440 showed Negros Occidental with highest recorded new cases with 212, of which 208 were local cases, …
Lacson: No border control in NegOcc
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has denied the request made by the Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases-Western Visayas chapter to close the province’s borders as well as non-essential businesses amid the threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a meeting held at the provincial capitol last Wednesday …
10 illegal fishers caught in Iloilo
Ten fishermen were arrested for illegal fishing in Barangay San Francisco in Iloilo province’s Barotac Viejo town around 6:30 a.m. yesterday. The following were detained at the Barotac Viejo Police Station for violating the municipal ordinance on illegal fishing: Marlon Andrad, Phillip Salvador, Bonnie Salvador, and Jay R Andrade, all residents of Barangay Madanlog, San Dionisio town; Rodel Bongayo, Rodgen …
Bacolod man yields P34K ‘shabu’
A suspected drug pusher was arrested in a drug buy-bust operation 9:50 p.m. on Wednesday, June 9, in Bacolod City’s Barangay 4. Authorities identified the suspect as 25-year-old Reginald Alarcon of the city’s Barangay Estefania. Officers of the City Drug Enforcement Unit of the Bacolod City Police Office confiscated seven plastic sachets of suspected shabu …
Clean public markets
People need to eat clean and uncontaminated food from the public market. Thus, the local chief executive should ensure that the taxpayers will get their money’s worth – clean, spacious, comfortable, foul odor-free public market. A clean and spacious public market is a proof of how good a local government unit (LGU) is. It also …
Our spiritual and supernatural bearing
Definitely, this spiritual and supernatural bearing of ours would lead us to refer everything in our life to God, to see God in everything and to discern his abiding providence over all his creation. It will be shaped and directed by God’s gifts of faith, hope and charity that, in turn, will inspire the development …
Margielyn Didal qualifies for Tokyo Olympics
By ADRIAN STEWART CO Filipina skateboarder Margielyn Didal has formalized her qualification as the 10th Philippine athlete to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics starting next month. Didal was one of the 20 skateboarders who will compete in the women’s street skateboarding event, based on the formal announcement of World Skats yesterday. The skateboarding discipline …
Negros Kingsmen settle for a split in PCAP
By ADRIAN STEWART CO Negros Kingsmen settled for another split game in the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) GM Wesley So Cup on Wednesday evening as the Iloilo Kisela Knights dominated its two matches. The Kingsmen opened the evening with a 14.5-6.5 annihilation over Olongapo Rainbow Team 7 before suffering a close 12.5-8.5 …
‘High-value’ drug target shot dead in Bacolod
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Victorias City’s high-value drug target was shot dead late Wednesday night by still unidentified gunmen in front of the barangay hall of Barangay Estefania in Bacolod City. Police identified the fatality as Danilo “Sipil” Sangcap, Jr., a resident of Barangay 7 Poblacion in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. Police Station 4 …