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By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga   The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) is now investigating the shooting of a Talisay City home owned by radio broadcaster Rey Siason. According to Siason, the PTFoMS immediately coordinated with him following the incident last week. The radio personality also said authorities recovered several closed-circuit television videos …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga   The Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) Employees Union (BEU) recently expressed their opposition to any form of privatization. In response to an unsolicited proposal by the MetroPac Water Investments Corporation, Prime Water Infrastructure Corporation, and the Manila Water Company Inc. to form a public private partnership, BEU President Claudio …

Seismic activity was recorded in the southern portion of Negros last Monday, with a 2.3-magnitude tremor striking just west of Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental shortly after midnight and another 2.3-magnitude quake in the waters south of Siaton, Negros Oriental that evening, around 10:50 p.m. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, neither event caused …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga   Based on recent data from the Department of Health-Region VI (DOH-6), the number of rabies-related fatalities in Negros Occidental is up to four this year. DOH-6 Regional Rabies Program coordinator Ame Liz Mardoquio said, from January to June of this year, the department recorded a total of 51,967 dog …

Benitez: The race for mayor is ‘unclear’   By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga   Negros Occidental third district Rep. Alfredo Benitez refused to endorse a side in next year’s elections in Bacolod City. During a recent press conference, the congressman said he received word former Bacolod City Mayor Monico Puentevella planned to challenge incumbent Bacolod …

The Central Negros Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Ceneco) revealed residential rates for September 2018 came to P11.8574 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), a slight increase from the August 2018 rate of P11.7019/kWh. In line with total expenses last month, around 75 percent of revenue is allocated towards generation and transmission companies, which include system loss charges and adjustments …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga   With regard to plans to privatize the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa), Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the plan is “not bad.” During a press conference yesterday, he said, while he is not outrightly endorsing the proposal, there are many cases where privatization became successful. In a radio …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga   The group of minors who were recently fired upon by unidentified gunmen at the Celine Homes Subdivision in Barangay Estefania, Bacolod City are now considered suspected members of the notorious ‘akyat bahay’ gang. In a radio interview yesterday afternoon, Barangay Estefania Captain Jerry Tingson said the involved minors, some …