Preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas showed the banking system was only able to allocate about 10.18 percent of its total loanable funds for agriculture and agrarian reform from January to September, falling way below the 25 percent
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III The registration process for Bacolod residents, who want to be vaccinated against Covid-19, is now ongoing, Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical and data analysis of the city Emergency Operations Center Task Force, said. Sorongon
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The provincial government of Negros Occidental has issued an appeal to the Bacolod City government for common protocols for returning residents. Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz aired the concern of the provincial government on the “different protocols”
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental will remain under the Modified General Community Quarantine status until Feb. 28 this year, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said in Executive Order No. 21-05 that he issued yesterday. Lacson added that the province had
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The House of Representatives approved on second reading Wednesday House Bill No. 8385, that consolidated several bills promoting urban agriculture, including HB 3412 authored by Rep. Francisco Benitez (Neg. Occ., 3rd district). Benitez headed the technical
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The city government of San Carlos in Negros Occidental is offering livelihood assistance to overseas Filipino workers, who have been retrenched, or failed to return to work because of the Covid-19 pandemic. As much as P15,000
A three-storey hemodialysis center, worth P19.5 million, will soon rise at the Ignacio L. Arroyo Memorial District Hospital in the municipality of Isabela in Negros Occidental. Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, Rep. Ma. Lourdes Arroyo (Neg. Occ., 5th District), and Isabela
BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III More than half a million-peso was poured in by the Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office for their simultaneous veterinary relief operations as part of the disaster recovery efforts in flood stricken-areas in the third district.
KEEPING AN EYE ON. The monitoring network of Kanlaon Volcano recorded three volcanic earthquakes during the 24-hour observation period, and weak emission of white steam-laden plumes was observed, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in its bulletin yesterday*
I have too many hobbies. Most of them cater to my girls interests. I have made them a cardboard dollhouse, and I am completing the handmade furniture inside. I have been painting peg dolls to live in said dollhouse. There
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Dengue cases in Western Visayas have increased to 2,124, as of April 11, with 294 cases recorded in Negros Occidental and 56 in Bacolod City, according to reports of the Department of Health – Western Visayas
A fireman trains his hose at the fire that destroyed 16 houses and damaged 3 at Barangay 18, Bacolod City on Saturday.* Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Negros Occidental logged its first pertussis related fatality, along with 11 confirmed cases, as of April 15. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Girlie Pinongan disclosed that the fatality is a one-month-old infant who died last week at
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN United Negros Alliance president, Vice Gov. Jeffrey Ferrer, yesterday said that they have already made their choice on their vice gubernatorial bet, the running mate of Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, that UNegA will field during the
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO A resolution urging the Baciwa-Primewater to either reduce proportionately the minimum water rate charges to consumers affected by frequent water shortages, or to refrain from collecting minimum water charge on consumers affected by a month of
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday called for a prompt and peaceful resolution to the recent seizure by Iranian authorities of a Portuguese-flagged container ship, which included four Filipino seafarers among its crew, a press release from the House of
