By ADRIAN STEWART CO Alas Pilipinas national women’s volleyball team’s gallant stand was not enough as they bowed to the taller and experienced Kazakhstan, 25-23, 25-21, 25-14 in the AVC Challenge Cup for Women semifinals at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday night, May 28. Arah Panique, a late addition to head coach Jorge …
Monthly Archives: May 2024
CSB sweeps Letran, completes NCAA women’s volley 3-peat
By ADRIAN STEWART CO The College of St. Benilde (CSB) Lady Blazers hardly broke a sweat as they swept the Colegio de San Juan de Letran Lady Knights, 25-18, 25-17, 25-18, in Game 2 of the NCAA Season 99 women’s volleyball finals at the FilOil EcoOil Arena in San Juan City. Gayle Pascual capped …
Wolves stay alive with Game 4 road win over Mavericks
Anthony Edwards came through with a game-high 29 points, Karl-Anthony Towns regained his form from beyond the three-point arc and the Minnesota Timberwolves stayed alive in the NBA Western Conference finals with a 105-100 victory over the host Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 yesterday (Philippine time). With their first win in the best-of-seven series, the Timberwolves …
Suffering from big loss; Unifed calls for BSWM abolition over failure to allow cloud seeding
By JEN BAYLON The United Sugar Producers Federation of the Philippines (Unifed) has requested the abolition of the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), over its failure to allow cloud seeding operations at the height of the drought to save sugarcane plantations in Negros Occidental. “The sugar industry is suffering from a big loss …
‘Red-tagging’ a threat to life, liberty and security
By Dennis Gorecho “Red-tagging” is a threat to life, liberty and security. Thus declared the Supreme Court in the case of Deduro vs. Major General Vinoya (G.R. No. 254753, July 4, 2023) that overturned a lower court’s 2023 decision dismissing a 2020 petition brought by Siegfred Deduro, an activist and former representative of the Bayan Muna party-list. Deduro alleged that …
The real righteousness
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:20) With these words, Christ is telling us how our righteousness should be. And that is we have to have the righteousness that truly comes from God. It should not be …
Benitez: Burgos market rehab funds to be reallocated for other projects
By JEN BAYLON The P525 million fund for the renovation of the Burgos Public Market will be allocated for other projects after market vendors voted against the city government’s plan. Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, who recently met with some members of the vendor association, said yesterday that the renovation has been cancelled. “Kun …
Bacolod City pays tribute to PH flag in 5 locations
The Bacolod City government, led by Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, marked the National Flag Day through simultaneous flag-raising rites in five locations yesterday. Tributes for the Philippine flag were at Rizal Elementary School, the Bacolod City Government Center, Bacolod Public Plaza, Andres Bonifacio Elementary School I, and old Bacolod Airport. Benitez, who led the …
Panay-Guimaras-Negros bridges to transform reg’l connectivity
The anticipated P187.54-billion mega Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) bridges project is set to transform regional connectivity in Western Visayas, the top official of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the region said on Monday, May 27. In a public briefing yesterday, DPWH Regional Director Engineer Sanny Boy Oropel said the feasibility study for …
High generation cost triggers power rate hike in W. Visayas
Electric cooperatives in Western Visayas have attributed the increased electricity rate as reflected in their May 2024 billing to the “significant rise in generation cost at the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM).” “To meet our energy demands, we rely primarily on our contracted power suppliers. And supplement our remaining power supply by sourcing additional …