By ADRIAN STEWART CO The Bacolod Tay Tung High School Thunderbolts emerged as champions in the secondary girls’ volleyball tournament of the Victor C. Plagata Cup Season XVII at the Bingawan Civic Center in Bingawan, Iloilo on Sunday night, July 21. The Thunderbolts, composed mostly of players from the Western Visayas team that ruled …
Monthly Archives: July 2024
SGA spoils Taipei-A’s party to rule 43rd Jones Cup
Strong Group Athletics (SGA) Philippines spoiled the 43rd William Jones Cup campaign of hometown bets Chinese Taipei to clinch the tournament’s championship. The Charles Tiu-mentored squad reclaimed Jones Cup glory after they stunned Chinese Taipei-A in overtime, 83-79, during their clash in New Taipei City on Sunday evening, July 21. Tajuan Agee headed SGA …
For finalization: Relocation site for La Castellana residents within PDZ being finalized
By JEN BAYLON The relocation site for residents in Negros Occidental’s La Castellana town, living within Kanlaon Volcano’s four-kilometer permanent danger zone (PDZ), is being finalized. John de Asis, head of the La Castellana Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), said the municipal government will identify the relocation site soon. De Asis said the …
Fake Pinoys in our midst
By Ade S. Fajardo The Municipality of Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur is proximate to Davao City. Last week, it got featured as the source of 200 fake Filipino certificates of live birth. The certificate holders are mainly Chinese nationals. Civil Registrar General Dennis Mapa has announced that the local civil registrar has been relieved of …
Beware of Pharisaical legalism
By Roy Cimagala What is Pharisaical legalism? At bottom, it’s the understanding of law that is based only on our human ways, ignoring the ultimate basis of law who is God as revealed fully in Christ. As such, it tends to be rigid, to be quick to judge and to claim it has the …
LGUs, NGAs urged to submit public service continuity plans
Local government units (LGUs) and national government agencies (NGAs) in Western Visayas (Region 6) are urged to develop and submit public service continuity plans (PSCP) to avoid disruption in the performance of their functions amid crises and disasters. Bago City in Negros Occidental is the only LGU in Region 6 that has submitted a …
Peace adviser: Insurgency-free PH achievable by 2028
The goal of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s administration to make the Philippines insurgency-free by the end of 2028 is not impossible. Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. said the government’s convergence efforts can turn the vision into reality. “Nakita ko sa assessment ko, it is very achievable kasi nakikita natin …
Malnutrition rate drops in Negros Oriental
Local health officials continue their efforts to fight malnutrition as they call on the public and private stakeholders to follow the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) from 2023 to 2028. In a Kapihan sa PIA forum, Negros Oriental Provincial Health Office (PHO) nutritionist Antonieta Delfino said that despite increasing malnutrition cases in …
Ex-OFW ‘stabbed’ dead
A former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was allegedly stabbed to death by her live-in partner at Barangay Talaban in Negros Occidental’s Himamaylan City on Friday, July 19. Himamaylan police chief, Colonel Anthony Grande, identified the victim as 29-year-old Rose Ann Gahito. Grande said Gahito went to the house of her 32-year-old live-in partner, as she was allegedly stabbed by the suspect …
Cops seize P2.87-M ‘shabu’ in Negros Oriental buy-bust
Anti-illegal drug operatives in Dumaguete City seized suspected shabu worth almost P2.9 million during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Cangmating, Sibulan, Negros Oriental close to midnight on Friday, July 19. The suspected shabu weighed about 422.6 grams with an estimated street value of P2.87 million, Lt. Stephen Polinar, spokesperson of the Negros Oriental Police …