By ADRIAN STEWART CO Bacolod Tay Tung High School, representing Unit 5, stamped its class in the secondary girls division of the Bacolod City Division Meet volleyball tournament, clinching the championship on Monday, December 8, at the Montalbo Gym. The Thunderbolts dominated both the finals and the individual awards, highlighted by Rhosé Viane Almendralejo’s standout …
Monthly Archives: December 2025
PH men through to semis after beating Indonesia
For the first time in 34 years, the Philippines will play in the semifinals of the men’s football competition in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. The Philippine men’s national football team held on for a 1-0 win against Indonesia on Monday night, December 8, at the 700th Anniversary Stadium in Chiang Mai, Thailand to book …
Harper’s late jumper lifts Spurs past Pelicans
Dylan Harper canned the decisive jumper with 9.1 seconds to play as part of his career-high 22 points and the visiting San Antonio Spurs outlasted the reeling New Orleans Pelicans, 135-132, yesterday (Philippine time). The Spurs were up by 20 points at halftime, but New Orleans rallied to take a 102-100 edge into the final …
Transition point | Bacolod still key transshipment hub for illegal drugs: BCPO
By CESAR JOLITO III The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has confirmed that no major drug syndicates or illegal drug manufacturers are currently operating within the city, even as authorities acknowledge that the city remains a strategic transshipment point in the region’s drug supply chain. BCPO director Police Colonel Joeresty Coronica warned that Bacolod continues …
PH’s Primelectric explores South Korea’s manufacturing hub
In a significant move to bolster infrastructure development and secure its supply chain, top executives from the Philippines’ Primelectric Holdings, Inc. embarked on a strategic visit last week to South Korea’s manufacturing heartland. The delegation, led by President and CEO Roel Castro, toured the facilities of Taeyoung Electric Co., Ltd., a cornerstone of Korea’s industrial …
Preventing measles outbreaks
By Sonny Angara The Department of Health (DOH) declared measles outbreaks in various regions of the country, namely Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Central Visayas, and Eastern Visayas. In fact, more than 5,600 people have been infected since the beginning of this year. And sadly, around 70 — a third of whom were unvaccinated children …
The radicality of Christian love
By Fr. Roy Cimagala If we truly identify ourselves with Christ, as we should, then we have to realize that we have to love God and everybody else all the way. And this can go even to the extent of offering our very life, since, as we have been reminded, “There is no greater love …
WHO urges clampdown on nicotine products aimed at kids
Sleek-looking disposable e-cigarettes and candy-flavored nicotine pouches are among a range of new products targeting young people and fueling a new wave of tobacco and nicotine addiction, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned. Speaking at the opening of a global conference on tobacco control, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried that surging numbers of children …
Troops pursue armed group; PNP vows justice for slain Negrense cop
The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) vowed justice for the violent death of a policeman in Calatrava, Negros Occidental, as pursuit operations continue for the arrest of the perpetrators. On December 7, the body of Senior Master Sergeant Rommel Aguilar, a member of the 3rd Maneuver Platoon of the 1st Negros Occidental Police Mobile …
Brgy execs, teacher face raps over illegal drugs
By CESAR JOLITO III The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Negros Island Region (PDEA-NIR) has elevated to the Office of the Ombudsman – Visayas a series of administrative and criminal complaints against three government officials and a public school teacher arrested in separate anti-drug operations this year — marking one of the region’s strongest moves yet to tighten …