Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and San Carlos City Police Station dismantled a suspected drug den and arrested nine persons at San Juan Tunga, Barangay 5 in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental around 11:41 a.m. on Sunday, June 6. Joint operatives of PDEA-Negros Occidental, PDEA-Antique, PDEA-Guimaras, and San Carlos City Police …
Monthly Archives: June 2021
NegOcc, Bacolod get more COVID-19 vaccines today
By Darlene Delgado Negros Occidental Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz yesterday said that 23,400 doses of Chinese firm Sinovac biotech’s CoronaVac vaccines will arrive today at the Bacolod-Silay Airport. Diaz said 7,000 of the doses will be delivered to Bacolod City, while 16,400 doses will be given to Negros Occidental. On Saturday, June 5, Bacolod had …
INSULAR FOUNDATION COMMITS TO HELP EDUCATE WOMEN IN PRISON
The Insular Foundation, in partnership with Cebuana Lhuillier Foundation (CLFI), recently adopted the Alternative Learning System-Community Learning Center (ALS-CLC) at the Correctional Institution For Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City to help persons deprived of liberty finish their primary education. This is the first adopted center exclusively for women and the third ALS-CLC partnership between Insular …
Bacolod receives 10K more doses of Sinovac vaccines
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The city government of Bacolod has received an additional shipment of 10,000 COVID-19 vaccines over the weekend. City Health Office (CHO) head, Dr. Edwin Miraflor Jr., said the 10,000 CoronaVac doses from Chinese biotech company Sinovac arrived via Philippine Airlines at the Bacolod-Silay Airport. Miraflor said the additional doses will …
Localized thunderstorm causes flooding in Bacolod
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A localized thunderstorm experienced late Saturday afternoon, June 5, in Bacolod City has inundated several areas and triggered evacuations in some areas of the city. Bacolod City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) cluster head Joemarie Vargas said they immediately mobilized their teams after receiving an advisory from the …
DepEd Error: Passed or Failed?
Modules cannot replace teachers, that is the cold-hard fact. They spent years in education and training with their elective majors. Our parents came from various fields. We are school drop-outs, blue-collared workers, or white-collared ones rolled up in one. “No student left behind.” Sitting here now with the week-old school module of my pupil, I …
When his word is the law
Legal assistance is dependent on the economic status of the applicant. It is not a function of the political beliefs or gravity of the offense committed by the client. Most important of all, a client’s crime is not shared by his lawyer. A lawyer defending a client against an accusation of rape is not himself …
Negros, Iloilo dominate foes in PCAP
By Adrian Stewart Co Negros Kingsmen and Iloilo Kisela Knights were both on the winning track in the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) GM Wesley So Cup on Saturday evening, June 5. The Kingsmen started the evening with a 12-9 victory over Palawan Queen’s Gambit before following it up with a 17-4 …
PBA thumbs down Kiefer Ravena’s Japan stint for good
By Adrian Stewart Co The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has ruled with finality on prohibiting NLEX Road Warriors star Kiefer Ravena from suiting up for the Shiga Lakestars in the Japanese B. League. PBA chairman Ricardo Vargas said the league’s board of governors were unanimous in blocking the Iloilo City-native Ravena’s Japan stint pointing to …
COVID cases in San Carlos City continue to drop
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga San Carlos City Mayor Rene Gustilo revealed over the weekend that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the city continue to drop. Based on the latest data released by the Provincial Incident Management Team of Negros Occidental, the city only has 54 active COVID-19 cases. Gustilo said contact tracing, …