September 2020

Canlaon hospital temporarily closes

The Canlaon District Hospital in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental has temporarily shut down after a staff member had come into contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019.

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‘No 3-day closure of markets’

Bacolod City Administrator Em Ang clarified yesterday that the city government has no intension to close the major markets for three days once the market vendors submit themselves for swab testing.

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BCPO director moved to Crame

P/Col. Henry Biñas was relieved from his post as director of the Bacolod City Police Office, effective yesterday, and transferred to the Philippine National Police-Drug Enforcement Group in Camp Crame as chief of directorial staff.

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Mayor seeks Bacolod downgrade to GCQ

Mayor Evelio Leonardia asked Health Secretary Francisco Duque yesterday to de-escalate Bacolod City’s quarantine status from Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine to the less stringent General Community Quarantine effective Thursday.

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Cops kill ‘drug kingpin’ from Cebu in shootout

A High Value Individual (HVI) drug personality from Region 7 died in a shoot-out with policemen and operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency during a manhunt operation in Brgy. Minoyan, Murcia, Negros Occidental, 7:30 a.m. yesterday.

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Ascetic

If there’s anything good that came from living in a country where the one and only strategy against the coronavirus is to basically rotate through different quarantine statuses while waiting for a vaccine, many of us have been forced to rethink our lifestyles and priorities over the past six months as we endured the world’s strictest and longest lockdown.

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SP opens tap for another water franchise in Bacolod

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO An ordinance laying down the policies and guidelines for the grant of non-exclusive franchise to construct, establish, commission, operate, and maintain a water supply system for Bacolod City, was passed on first reading by the Bacolod

Ideologies

I was having a conversation with a couple of close friends from way back the other day, and as usual, the topic turned to how things are changing as we age. This time, instead of talking about our health and

6 rebels surrender in Negros, Iloilo

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Six more self-confessed New People’s Army rebels surrendered to the 11th and 61st Infantry Battalions in Negros and Iloilo, respectively, according to reports of the Philippine Army. Three of the six NPA rebels surrendered to the

When we fail to practice what we preach

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Planters group gets sugar mill’s nod

Newly rebranded planters group “The Sugar Association Inc.”, formerly the Vicmico Planters Association, secured acceptance as one of the accredited partner associations of Hawaiian-Philippine Company (HPCo) sugar mill. “We are honored to be formally recognized as one of the partner

Bacolod City forms Task Force vandalism

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez has issued an executive order creating a task force against vandalism. In his executive order dated April 23, Benitez said that the proliferation of acts of vandalism has been observed in different