NegOcc private schools’ enrollment drops by 56%
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGABACOLOD City – Much fewer students enrolled in private schools in Negros Occidental for the reopening of classes this year.Data from...
CLO to probe big crowding at BCGC
BACOLOD City – What could have caused the unexpected big crowd of people that converged at the Bacolod City Government Center (BCGC) last week?
The...
City hall’s COVID-19 cases now at 91
ILOILO City – Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now infected 91 employees of the Iloilo City government.
The data include six additional infections confirmed yesterday by...
NegOcc MGCQ extended ‘til Oct. 31
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental remains under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ).
Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson issued an executive order yesterday extending...
Monsoon rains flood parts of Bacolod City
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – No public storm warning signal was raised but an enhanced southwest monsoon brought moderate to occasional heavy rains...
Iloilo City ‘46.11% drug-cleared’
ILOILO City – Eighty-three villages or 46.11 percent of this city’s 180 barangays have so far been cleared of illegal drugs by the national...
Kin of missing Ilonggo sailors still cling to hope
ILOILO – It’s roughly almost a month since 11 Ilonggo seafarers vanished at sea when a typhoon destroyed their ship in southwestern Japan. But...
Bacolod gets new top cop; Biñas reassigned to Camp Crame
BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has a new director.
This developed after BCPO director Colonel Henry Biñas was relieved from his...
Negros board member falls sick with COVID
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
Bacolod City – Provincial Board member Andrew Montelibano of the 3rd District of Negros Occidental tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019...
Iloilo City Council bats for Geduspan as LTO-6 chief
ILOILO City -- The Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution endorsing Ilonggo lawyer Gaudioso Geduspan II of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Western Visayas...