By ADRIAN STEWART CO Jeremiah Gray delivered with clutch triples as Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Kings pulled off a come-from-behind 114-111 win over NLEX Road Warriors in the 2022-2023 PBA Governors’ Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday night, February 8. Down 101-108 with over a minute left, Gray unloaded back-to-back three-pointers followed by …
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Changwon prevails over Daegu in KBL
By ADRIAN STEWART CO Justin Gutang and Changwon LG Sakers prevailed over Samjosef Belangel and Daegu Korea Gas Corporation Pegasus in the 2022-2023 Korean Basketball League (KBL) at the Daegu Gymnasium on Wednesday night, February 8. Gutang, a former College of St. Benilde Blazers guard, finished with six points on 3-of-4 shooting, to go …
Obiena to miss Asian Indoor Championships due to cargo trouble, finances
EJ Obiena won’t be able to compete in this year’s Asian Indoor Championships this coming weekend in Kazakhstan. The world’s top 3 pole vaulter is looking to ride on the momentum of his gold medal win in the Orlen Cup, but could not transport his poles to Astana. “Despite huge efforts from everyone, including …
Lacson prefers restoring NIR over Albee’s sub-region plan
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday he would prefer seeing a fully-reestablished Negros Island Region (NIR) compared to the sub-region proposal by Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Benitez. According to Lacson, he is okay with Benitez’s two proposals, but the governor would very much prefer restoring NIR …
Group calls for transparent, fair sugar importation
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Confederation of Sugar Producers Association (CONFED) said yesterday they have sent another letter to the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) calling for open, transparent and fair sugar importation. Earlier, CONFED and several other groups from the sugar industry proposed the importation of only 350,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar, …
Guv: Bulk water project an answer to water woes
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday that the proposed bulk water project by the provincial government could be the answer to Bacolod City’s current water woes. Lacson made the response after the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) declined to cooperate with the public-private partnership’s bulk water project. …
Benitez hopes next BCPO chief a Bacolodnon
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Benitez hopes that the next Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) director will be a native of Bacolod. Concurrent BCPO director, Colonel Thomas Joseph Martir is due to retire in May of this year. Although Martir’s retirement is still far away, Benitez said in a radio …
3 slain NPAs in Negros ‘deceptively recruited’
The three Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) fighters slain during a clash in Negros Occidental’s Kabankalan City on Sunday, February 5 were deceived to join the armed struggle which they eventually abandoned in their deaths, a Philippine Army official said yesterday. “They were deceptively recruited for the ideology they did not …
Contaminated water eyed in 4 deaths
The Negros Oriental Provincial Health Office (PHO) is investigating a possible water source contamination in the province’s Vallehermoso town following the deaths of four people recently, an official bared yesterday. Acting PHO chief, Dr. Liland Estacion, told the Philippine News Agency that she has sent sanitary inspectors to Vallehermoso to take water samples from …
BCPO seized P1-M ‘shabu,’ nabbed 37 suspects in January
Drug enforcement teams seized some P1 million worth of suspected shabu and arrested 37 suspects in January this year, a report from the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) on Tuesday, February 7 showed. From January 1 to 31, the total volume of suspected shabu recovered in various operations reached 147.0788 grams with a standard price …