Loren denies hand in pork barrel scam Escudero, Angara, Pimentel wash hands, too
By PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA — Sen. Loren Legarda denied her involvement in the multibillion-peso Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima...
Miraflores: I don’t know Janet Napoles
By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan — Gov. Florencio Miraflores had been identified as one of the government officials behind the pork barrel scam.
He...
Central market smelly, messy
BY FREDA MAE SORSANO
ILOILO City – The comfort rooms are dirty. The toilet bowls are defective. The drainage pipes are clogged.
The garbage piles up....
Negros Occ. harnesses sun’s power
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL – The 22-megawatt (MW) solar farm in San Carlos City inaugurated by President Benigno Aquino III yesterday is the...
Guv: Arrest illegal logging suspects
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. is fuming. Some P25-million worth of endemic and indigenous species of trees found only at the...
Minor illegal Chinese fishers released
By SAMMY JULIAN
Manila News Bureau Chief
MANILA – The two minors who were among the 11 Chinese fishermen apprehended at the Hasa-Hasa Shoal were released...
AFTER 3 YEARSNoel Ayalin falls
CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City — Noel Ayalin, one of the most wanted persons in Western Visayas who had been hiding for three years, was...
Magnitude 6.3 hits Hinobaan
By CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City — A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Negros Occidental, reverberating through several areas in Western Visayas, at 6:16 p.m. yesterday.
The...
5 more solar power plants in Negros eyed
By EUGENE ADIONG
SAN CARLOS City — San Carlos Solar Energy, Inc. (SACASOL) said it plans to put up five more solar power plants in...
‘Negros Region’ plan under DILG study
By EUGENE ADIONG
SAN CARLOS City — President Benigno Aquino III yesterday said the proposal to convert Negros Island into an independent region is now...