January 8, 2021

Jumping to conclusions?

The curious case of flight attendant Christine Dacera, who died after a New Year’s party in a Makati hotel, has captured the nation’s imagination, distracting Filipinos from the uproar caused by the Presidential Security Group vaccination scandal that welcomed the

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Make your COVID Motto: Be Prepared!

We are already well into January but the United States is still  counting the votes cast in their November elections. Maybe that is inevitable if you have an opponent like Donald Trump who does not know how to admit defeat

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Child protection

The Department of Education directed public and private elementary and high schools to establish and strengthen child protection committees to help address online sexual abuse and exploitation of children, and reports of rampant child pornography online during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Bacolod allots P300M for vaccines vs. Covid

Mayor Evelio Leonardia (center) shows a copy of the multi-lateral and confidentiality agreement he signed with AstraZeneca on the availment of vaccines against Covid, as witnessed by Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran and City Administrator Em Ang (seated, l-r); and Drs. Hector Gayares and Edwin Miraflor, City Legal Officer Joselito Bayatan, Councilor Renecito Novero, and Dr. Chris Sorongon (standing, l-r) at the Bacolod City Government Center yesterday*

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Victorias under state of calamity, too

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Victorias City in Negros Occidental has been also placed under a state of calamity, after this was approved yesterday during the session of its Sangguniang Panlungsod, as recommended by Mayor Francis Frederick Palanca. This was after

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AFP, PNP on high alert against NPA atrocities

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Armed Forces of the Philippines and National Police in Western Visayas are extra vigilant and have already initiated pre-emptive operations against any possible deployment of New People’s Army assassins. While they have not monitored any

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MNLF men in DSB fake news: spox

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office and the Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade dismissed yesterday as “fake news” the reported presence of members of the Moro National Liberation Front in Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, in November

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Crime volume in Negros, city down – police

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN & ADRIAN P. NEMES III The total crime volume in Negros Occidental went down by 34 percent last year, compared to 2019, provincial police deputy spokesperson, P/Lt. Abegael Donasco, said yesterday. It reduced from 1,371 in

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‘No bogus travel passes’

BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III There are no fake travel passes in Bacolod City, the City Police Office spokesperson, P/Lt. Col. Ariel Pico said yesterday amid reports that there are bogus travel passes circulating in some areas. Pico said that,

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