By Adrian Stewart Co Negrense boxer Rowel Rosia knocked down Cris Paulino in six rounds to clinch the Philippine Games and Amusements Board (PGAB) super flyweight belt in Parañaque City. It was the Cadiz City, Negros Occidental-native Rosia’s first fight since scoring a unanimous decision victory over fellow Negrense fighter Aston Palicte in 2019. Rosia …
Monthly Archives: November 2021
Negrense Pons, Rondina clinch BVR on Tour leg 2 title
By Adrian Stewart Co Negrense Bernadeth Pons and Cherry Rondina of Creamline 1 displayed their sandcourt dominance anew after ruling the second leg of the Beach Volleyball Republic (BVR) on Tour on Sunday at Santa Ana, Cagayan. Pons and Rondina completed a sweep of the two-leg BVR Cagayan bubble after defeating the pair of Angelique …
343 NegOcc, Bacolod minors receive COVID-19 jabs
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A total of 343 minors aged 12 to 17 years old have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine following the formal launch of the pediatric A3 vaccination in Negros Occidental and its capital Bacolod City last Friday, October 29. Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Executive Director Em …
Bacolod seeks lower COVID-19 alert level
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia over the weekend has forwarded a letter to the National Inter-Agency Task Force (NIATF) appealing for a lower alert level after the city switched from a quarantine status to the more updated alert level classification. Bacolod City was placed under Alert Level 4 classification by …
Town councilor in ‘hot water’ over rape charge
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A councilor of Moises Padilla town in Negros Occidental is facing rape charges and can no longer be located by police who were trying to serve his arrest warrant Moises Padilla police chief, Police Major Randy Babor, said they served the warrant of arrest to Councilor Fred Villaflor Bangcaya alias …
Bacolod EOC conducts night extraction simulation in hotel
The Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF), led by the Extraction Cluster, recently conducted a night simulation exercises for the extraction of hotel guests with COVID-19 at Park Inn by Radisson. Mayor Evelio Leonardia, who witnessed the simulation exercises, said the hotel management informed him they are planning to do similar simulation exercises quarterly. …
The dangers that lurk
It’s interesting to know that not only Filipinos do it. Americans do it too. Over six in 10 Americans or 64 percent of those surveyed use their feet to flush in public toilets, time.com reports, adding that the same number use paper towels to open bathroom doors. That’s how Americans fear the bacteria that lurk …
On the gender issue
As priest, I get to talk to all kinds of people—straight, gay, etc.—and I try my best to listen to each one, exerting effort to find where they are and where they are coming from. Only then would I try to clarify things. And even if there are disagreements, I try my best to maintain …
Negros, Iloilo bested foes in PCAP
By Adrian Stewart Co Negros Kingsmen and Iloilo Kisela Knights bested their foes in the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) San Miguel Corporation-Ayala Land Cup on Saturday night. The Kingsmen bounced back from two losses last Saturday with 16-5 win over Sunrays and 13.5-7.5 domination over Lapu-Lapu City Naki Warriors to improve their …
Sultan drops Caraballo 4x, nets WBO Belt
By Adrian Stewart Co Filipino boxer Jonas Sultan escaped with a close unanimous decision win over Puerto Rican Carlos Caraballo to clinch the WBO Intercontinental bantamweight belt on Saturday night (Sunday in the Philippines) at Madison Square Garden in New York. Despite sending his opponent to the ground four times, the Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte-native …