The tariff on mechanically deboned meat (MDM) of chicken and turkey will remain at 5 percent until December 2022, according to Executive Order 123, signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on Jan. 15 and made public yesterday. He signed the EO
Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson turned over checks, worth P3,544,000 recently, to the Nabinay Agrarian Reform Cooperative, based in Brgy. Daga, Cadiz City, representing the first tranche of fund transfer for the Negros native chicken breeding, production, and marketing enterprise, under
Oil players are set to increase their prices this morning, posting a third consecutive weekly rise. In separate statements, Cleanfuel, Petro Gazz, Seaoil, and Shell said they will increase gasoline prices by P1 per liter, and diesel prices by P1.05
Eleven micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Negros Oriental received technology upgrading, worth more than P7 million, through the Department of Science and Technology Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program Innovation-Enabling Fund (SETUP iFund). The SETUP iFund is intended mainly
The Japanese Diet opened yesterday with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowing to go ahead with preparations to hold the Tokyo Olympics this summer, in the face of growing public opposition amid a surge in coronavirus infections across the country. In
From bitter social media posts to workouts using mattresses as hitting partners, dozens of the world’s best tennis players confined to Australian hotels for two weeks are dealing with their confinement in contrasting ways. The Australian Open in Melbourne has
Rafael Nadal yesterday became the first player to be ranked in the ATP top 10 for 800 consecutive weeks, a run spanning more than 15 years. The world number two broke Jimmy Connors’ previous record of 789 straight weeks in
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The National Bureau of Investigation district office in Bacolod City will be closed for one week, after five of its employees tested positive for the coronavirus disease, its head, Renoir Baldovino, said yesterday. Baldovino said the
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Department of the Interior and Local Government said 52 more barangays of Negros Occidental were liberated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines from the influence and control of the New People’s Army. Twenty-eight former
Mayor Evelio Leonardia will present before Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat of the Department of Tourism the status of the tourism industry in Bacolod and its tourism recovery plan to mitigate the adverse effects of the pandemic. Leonardia will make the presentation
It looks like the happy days of the proverbial wangwang, which has lately been becoming more and more a thing among public officials and other people who see themselves as big shots, have come to a surprising end once more,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A 58-year-old woman was gunned down, allegedly by a barangay tanod in Victorias City, while a farmer was burned to death in Cadiz City, all in Negros Occidental, on April 16. The woman victim, whose identity
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO Art Studio Forty Nine has an ongoing group exhibition of the artworks of its students at the West Bridgeway of SM City Bacolod. Rodney Martinez, past president of the Art Association of Bacolod-Negros, led the opening
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said the follow-up meeting of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. with US proponents of nuclear energy is a step forward in realizing his dream for adequate, reliable, and cheaper electricity for all Filipinos. Hours before his historic
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez on Monday asked the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) to submit a water security plan as he noted the failure of PrimeWater Infrastructure Corp., Baciwa’s joint venture agreement partner, to improve supply in the past four
More than 250 public school teachers, Early Childhood Care and Development Workers, Parents-Teachers Associations officers, barangay officials, and local government officials of Murcia participated in the Murcia Municipal Education Summit conducted on March 21 at Resorts Negrense, Bacolod City. Spearheaded
