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  By Mae Singuay The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) urged the Office of the Building Official (OBO) to strictly implement laws that will require establishments to install facilities for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens. Councilor Simplicia Distrito said the SP passed a resolution requesting the OBO to strictly implement City Ordinance (CO) 8-16-774, …

  Seventeen municipalities in Western Visayas stand to benefit from the Project Local Adaptation to Water Access (LAWA) and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished (BINHI) funded with P92.32 million as part of the risk resiliency program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) amid the El Niño phenomenon. The project …

  The Bacolod City will host some 1,000 student-athletes for the 2024 Philippine Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Games (PRG) Visayas qualifying leg from May 26 to June 1. Department of National Defense Assistant Henry Robinson, Jr. visited the city yesterday to discuss initial preparations with Office of Youth and Sports Development coordinator Adrian Melocoton and …

  By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental 5th District Congressman Emilio Yulo III was dismayed after the Bureau of Soil and Water Management (BSWM) of the Department of Agriculture in Western Visayas (DA-6) did not recommend cloud seeding. Yulo said DA-6 should have closely looked at the situation of the entire province, which continues to …

  The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Bacolod City brought its fire safety advocacy campaign inside the modernized jeepneys starting yesterday, as one of the initiatives in the local observance of Fire Prevention Month this March. Dubbed “Reels-On-The-Bus,” commuters can learn about fire safety by watching a 30-second advocacy video while traveling. City fire …

  By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The La Castellana Sangguniang Bayan (SB) has expelled the municipal councilor allegedly involved in the recruitment scam in the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Monday, March 18. La Castellana Mayor Rhumyla Nicor-Mangilimutan said the seven-member SB voted to expel Councilor Donato Dumaguit after failing to attend …

  By Jen Baylon An additional 900 hog raisers affected by African swine fever (ASF) in Negros Occidental will receive financial assistance. Chiqui Gonzales, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office head, said the farmer-beneficiaries will each receive P2,000 in aid. Gonzales said the funds were sourced from the cash advance approved by the Provincial Treasurer’s …

  By Jen Baylon Seven business establishments and a house were ravaged by a fire at Barangay 8 in Negros Occidental’s Isabela town on Monday morning, March 18. Bureau of Fire Protection-Isabela fire marshal, Senior Fire Officer 3 Annie Rose Limsiaco said the blaze started at 4:10 a.m. in the house of 57-year-old Isidro Casuyon …

  Barely a month before the staging of the 2024 Panaad sa Negros Festival, the province’s top government officials came together to launch the “festival of all festivals” of Negros Occidental at the Capitol Park and Lagoon in Bacolod City on Monday night, March 18. Set from April 15 to 21, the festival’s 28th edition …

  Three social workers of Bacolod City’s Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD) received recognition from the Department of State of the United States of America (USA) for providing care to an ailing American retiree for almost four months before he passed away last month. DSSD officer-in-charge Alma Gustilo, social welfare officer II Anjanette …