By Adrian Stewart Co Magnolia Pambansang Manok Hotshots used a strong third quarter rampage to beat Rain or Shine (ROS) Elasto Painters, 81-70, in Game 1 of the 2021 PBA Philippine Cup quarterfinals yesterday at the Don Honorio Ventura State University Gym in Bacolor, Pampanga. Paul Lee heated up in the fourth quarter to finish …
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Bacolod runs another vax drive as COVID deaths rise
Bacolod City’s Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF) mounted a two-day vaccination drive at the 888 Chinatown Square on September 25 to 26 as the number of COVID-19 deaths rose to 112 on Thursday, September 24. The weekend inoculation targeted 888 shoppers, City Administrator Em Legaspi-Ang, concurrent EOC-TF executive director and COVID-19 Vaccination Council (CoVaC) coordinator, …
Public warned of scammers posing as NOCPPO director
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The director of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) is warning the public of a scammer claiming to be him and asking for money. In a statement made by Police Colonel Romy Palgue yesterday morning, he said that on Saturday an individual from the town of Binalbagan received a phone …
GO HIGHER WITH THE EU IN THE 2021 VIRTUAL EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION FAIR PHILIPPINES
Planning to take graduate or post-graduate studies in the EU? Let the European Higher Education Fair (EHEF) 2021 guide you to “Go Higher with the EU.” The biggest of its kind in the Philippines, EHEF will give Filipino students, academicians, researchers and university officials the opportunity to connect directly with world-class higher education institutions from …
PAG-IBIG HOME LOANS, MP2 HIT RECORD-HIGH ANEW IN JAN-AUG 2021
Pag-IBIG Fund posted record-highs anew for the period January to August 2021 as members availed of its housing loan program and voluntary savings program in record numbers amid the pandemic, top officials of the agency announced during its Virtual Stakeholders’ Accomplishment Report held online on Friday, September 24, 2021. From January to August, home loans …
First McDonald’s NXTGen store in Negros rising in Northill Gateway Lot owners now starting to build houses inside Forbes Hill
This part of the 53-hectare Northill Gateway township right at the boundary of Bacolod City and Talisay City along the New Bacolod-Silay Airport Access Road is now fast taking shape. Megaworld is now constructing the first-ever McDonald’s NXTGen store in Negros Occidental, just beside the iconic Bacolod City Welcome Marker. NXTGen is a new store …
More COVID-19 vaccines for NegOcc, Bacolod
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The province of Negros Occidental and Bacolod City received an additional shipment of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday. Based on information released by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) at the Bacolod-Silay Airport, Negros Occidental received 4,700 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine; 40,000 doses of Sinovac vaccine; and 17,550 doses …
Comelec’s satellite registration ’til Sept. 30
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The satellite voter registration of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will continue until September 30. Comelec-6 regional director, Atty. Wilfred Jay Balisado, said that based on the latest issues, their national office is actually encouraging satellite registration in malls. Comelec-Bacolod is conducting satellite registration at the Ayala Capitol Central and …
Restart or reset?
Our duties toward God and others, especially our family, should be our first concern. Yes, the necessity for prayer and sacrifice will never wane. But they may have to be done in some novel way that is consonant to the new conditions Since we do not know how this whole COVID pandemic will play out, …
Facebook ‘blocks’ my blog but tolerates pornography
“The seven billion people on the planet don’t give a fuck what you want. They want you to program code for cool video games, they want you hot young girls to do porn, and they want you guys to like go build engineering and other stuff to make their lives easier. And they want food… …