By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental’s provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, revealed yesterday that the provincial government has begun conducting upgrades to their oxygen production plant in Silay City as the province continues to record a surge in new COVID-19 cases. According to Diaz, they want to further step up production by adding more …
Monthly Archives: September 2021
You are your own worst enemy!
In a typical family, love is always equated with fairness. For many founders placing more weight on being parents rather than business owners, fairness should naturally mean equal pay and equal shares regardless if one offspring is not working, lazy, entitled and a good-for-nothing adult child. Unfamiliar to a parent/owner, his or her act of …
Memoirs as a kidnap victim
Freedom almost always brings a sense of elation and relief. However, adjusting back to the real world can be just as difficult as abruptly leaving. The trauma kept me afloat for days. by Atty. Dennis Gorecho If Tokhang was already a sensational word in the 1990s, I could have been considered a tokhang survivor. Tokhang …
Bacolod City logs 9 more ‘Delta’ cases
Nine additional cases of the more transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 were detected in Bacolod City, bringing the total Delta cases in the city to 21 as of Monday, September 13. According to City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the Philippine Genome Center confirmed the nine new cases …
Grade 10 student dies due to hazing
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A Grade 10 student succumbed to injuries he sustained following a fraternity hazing rites in Negros Occidental’s San Enrique town. The 18-year-old lad, whose name was being withheld by the San Enrique police, was a resident of the town’s Barangay Guintorilan and a student of the Doña Hortencia Salas Benedicto …
Provincial Tourism Month kicks off
The province of Negros Occidental kicked off the 2021 Tourism Month celebration with Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson turning over the Tourist Restroom at the terminal area in the town of Calatrava on September 10), plus safety health protocol stickers for accommodation establishments and tourism offices in the first district of the province. Responding to the …
NPC rolls out ‘Unity’ Community Pantry
The Negros Press Club (NPC) led the rollout of a “Unity” Community Pantry for 200 residents of Progreso Village Relocation Site I in Barangay Vista Alegre, Bacolod City last Sunday, September 12. The activity, set at the Vista Alegre-Granada Relocation Elementary School campus, was a collective effort of various media outlets – broadcast, print and …
Formation under the new normal
We know that our need for formation is a continuing one. It’s a never-ending affair. That’s because not only do we have to pursue the ideal of the fullness of our humanity, let alone, our Christian perfection—already a formidable, overwhelming task—but we also have to contend with the changing circumstances as we go along, which …
DepEd-NegOcc notes increase in enrollment
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Department of Education (DepEd) in Negros Occidental noted an increase in the number of enrollees as the blended learning for public schools opened yesterday morning for school year 2021 to 2022. Negros Occidental Schools Division spokesperson Ian Arnold Arnaiz said about 79 percent already of last year’s 353,000 total …
Moving towards digital payments
Clearly, the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of our people’s consumer habits —and with it, their adoption of digital forms of payment. In fact, even before the pandemic, more of our people started using online means to conduct their day-to-day transactions. By the time this column comes out, two of the country’s biggest e-commerce …