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Dep’t of Internet pushed

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – The government has been urged to create a new department that will oversee the quality and prices of Internet...

EU: PH maritime education improves

By SAMMY JULIAN Manila News Bureau Chief MANILA – The Philippines has made appreciated efforts to bring its maritime education, training and certification system in line...

Province bares 7 investment areas

By EUGENE ADIONG BACOLOD City — Negros Occidental has seven investment areas, the provincial government investment consultant Rafael Coscolluela revealed. These are tourism, agribusiness, renewable energy,...

3 killed in EB Magalona gunfight

By EUGENE ADIONG BACOLOD City — Three alleged robbers were killed while a policeman was seriously injured in a gunfight between armed men and the...

Guv to back Albee’s Senate bid

By EUGENE ADIONG BACOLOD City — In case 3rd District Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez decides to run for Senate in 2016, Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr....

Roxas water district mired in P1-B debt

By RALPH JOHN MIJARES ROXAS City — The Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) has incurred more than a billion pesos worth of debt, its general...

Improve services, ex-GM dares MRWD

By RALPH JOHN MIJARES ROXAS City — A former general manager of the Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) challenged the water distribution facility to improve...

Kalibo, volunteer group win ‘Gawad Kalasag’

By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL KALIBO, Aklan — The municipal government here and a volunteer group were declared winners in the 2014 Gawad Kalasag: Search...

Sackloads of rice seeds ‘missing’

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO – Under its Rice Development Program, the provincial government purchased fertilizers and palay seeds for distribution to farmers. But the Provincial Agriculture Office...

Agri chief blames ‘errors’ in documentation

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO – Provincial Agriculturist Ildefonso Toledo believes the rice seeds and fertilizers that the provincial government procured under its Rice Development Program...