Group doing share to help fight Covid
September 5, 2020
A group of private citizens are doing their share to help in these difficult times, which is very much appreciated, Negros Occidental Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said yesterday.
A group of private citizens are doing their share to help in these difficult times, which is very much appreciated, Negros Occidental Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz said yesterday.
Four more drug suspects were apprehended by the police in buy-bust operations in Negros Occidental that also yielded about P140,000 worth of suspected shabu.
Personnel sent by the Police Regional Office 6 to Cebu City to help enforce quarantine regulations in the fight against the spread of Covid-19 are now back in Western Visayas.
BY SHIELA G. GELERA A personal motive is being eyed in the death of a probationer, who was gunned down in Purok Balinday, Barangay 2 in Bacolod City Thursday, P/Capt. Leo Estopa, Station 2 chief, said yesterday. Estopa said Felix
Bacolod Councilor Al Victor Espino yesterday clarified that the Sangguniang Panlungsod only endorsed the request for cockfighting activities in the city to the National Inter-Agency Task Force on Covid-19 and did not act on it.
Olivia Yanson, the 86-year-old matriarch of the Yanson group of bus companies, who is confined at the St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City for COVID-19, is feeling okay but is not out of danger yet, her daughter, Ginnette Dumancas, said yesterday.
Four Bacolod residents have separately been sentenced to life imprisonment for the sale illegal drugs.
The third district topped the list among the six districts of Negros Occidental with the most number of COVID-19 positive cases, excluding the lone district of Bacolod City, as of September 3.
The COVID-19 positive cases are alarming but with proper structures in place and close coordination between Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, he is very optimistic that the situation can be turned around in a couple of weeks, retired General Melquiades Feliciano, Inter-Agency Task Force-Visayas chief implementer, said yesterday.
A woman was injured while 19 houses were destroyed and four more were damaged when fire hit a slum area in Purok Sunrise, Barangay Taculing in Bacolod City, at about 1:32 p.m. yesterday.
“The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear” – The Beatles The genuine agrarian reform advocates, rural development workers, and small producers lost one of its prime movers. Arnel Ligahon, “Tibo,” as he is casually
The secretary general of Power Watch Negros said that the granting of the Negros Electric Power Corp. (NEPC) franchise could provide relief to the sufferings of the consumers of Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) brought about by frequent power outages.
PANAAD COSTUMES. Sagay City (left) won the Best Colorful, while Talisay City (right) won the Best Indigenous, in the Panaad Festival Costume Competition on Thursday at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City* Andrew Altarejos photos
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Police personnel in Western Visayas have been repeatedly reminded of the “no-take policy” in the campaign against illegal gambling, which prohibits all PNP members from taking any money from illegal gambling operations, as they would face
Following an intense 2-day competition, Delimondo’s Gelimae Villanueva and Bianca Lizares ruled the 1st Governor Bong Lacson Beach Volleyball Tournament (Women’s Open Category) held at the resthouse of Jose G. Montalbo in Spur 14 Purok Langka, Brgy. Bunga, Don Salvador
Local athletes, sports standouts, coaches and school heads from twelve private universities and colleges in Negros island will converge at STI West Negros University in Bacolod City, to compete in various sports and cultural events in the 1st Negros Island