April 13, 2021

‘Negros Occidental not safe right now’

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN It is not safe in Negros Occidental at this time, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday after noting that the increase in Covid-19 cases have been in triple digits in the past four days. The Provincial

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4-day work week at Capitol

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson issued a memorandum yesterday adopting a four-day work week and a day of work from home for Capitol employees, effective immediately, as six more provincial government employees tested positive for Covid-19. “This

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228 OFWs swabbed on arrival

Personnel of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office disinfect the bags and luggage of overseas Filipino workers upon arrival at the Bacolod-Silay Airport Sunday* City DRRMO photo

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Cop: 3 drown while gathering seashells

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Three persons, including a student, drowned while gathering seashells, or “kayog”, from the Himogaan River in Brgy. Paraiso, Sagay City, Negros Occidental Sunday, the police said. P/Lt. Abundio Diaz, Sagay City deputy police chief, identified the

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Murder, rob charges filing today: police

BY ADRIAN P. NEMES III “I can’t forgive him,” Jonel Norbe, the husband of one of the victims in the gruesome massacre in Gardenville Subdivision, Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City, told the DAILY STAR yesterday when asked if he will accept

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Bacolod, NegOcc get 14K vaccine vials

The Department of Health sent an additional 14,400 vials of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine to the province of Negros Occidental and Bacolod City yesterday afternoon. The latest batch of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) from the national government arrived

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Community

Yesterday, the Visayan DAILY STAR celebrated its 39th year of service to the people of Negros Island. After barely managing to survive through one of the most difficult years of its existence as a local daily newspaper, this year’s anniversary

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The STAR Principle

Forgive me if your Twinkling will sound a bit out of tune today. We are still groggy from the thought that yesterday, we marked the 39th anniversary of your DAILY STAR! Imagine that! Thirty-nine years, when other local journalists were

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Grey list

The Philippines needs to enact major reforms in the country’s bank secrecy laws to avoid being included anew in the grey list of the Paris-based money laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF), resulting in adverse effects on trade and

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‘Lawyers on vaccination priority list’

Lawyers, judges, and other employees in the justice sector are included in priority category A4 of the government’s vaccination plan, Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said yesterday. The A4 category includes non-medical frontline personnel in essential sectors, both public

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NIR bill almost finished – DILG chief

• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Following its approval by the Philippine Senate, the Negros Island Region bill is now almost finished, Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. disclosed yesterday. Abalos, who attended the series of activities in Victorias

The cross is necessary in our life

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First PONY Visayan baseball championships held in Sagay

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Photo of the Day

WATERSPORTS FEST. Fireworks signal the opening of the First Bacolod Watersports Festival yesterday, at the 800-meter seafront of the Bacolod Baywalk Recreational Park, where various water sports activities such as bancarera, beach volleyball, boat tug-of-war, and paddling, among others, will be held until April* CGSamillano photo

The strong faith of St. Joseph

On the Solemnity of St. Joseph, celebrated on March 19, the readings of the Mass highlight the importance and indispensability of faith, which is first of all a gift of God who starts to share his life, nature and power