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Friday, February 14, 2025

Negros Beat

‘ROW row’ a woe for NGCP still

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ON NOVEMBER 13, I was able to attend a Power 101 press briefing by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP)...

Long story short: Thanks, Negros Power!

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ON NOVEMBER 13, the Enrique K. Razon-led Negros Electric and Power Corporation (Negros Power) broke ground for its remarkable project –...

Biting off more than one could chew

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN BACOLOD CITY’s Mayor Albee Benitez on Monday, November 11, held a press conference. Among the many topics he discussed with the Bacolod...

Seeing Visayan life on canvass

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE CADIZ CITY government recently launched a Visayas-wide painting competition. This is a no-joke endeavor meant to gather artists and their...

Shabu and cigarette smuggling

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE MONTH of October is not just about the MassKara Festival and tropical storm Kristine. It is also about shabu and...

A dying wish fulfilled

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT IS SAID that fulfilling a dying wish is the highest form of respect from living relatives. I do agree. Thus, I...

‘Criollo’ in Bago

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN HAVE YOU heard the word “criollo”? Sounds foreign, thus weird, to Negrenses’ ears. “Criollo” connotes history and heritage for Bago City, or Negros...

Human consideration vs wrongdoing

HUMAN consideration is always associated with or synonymous to compassion, empathy or kindness. I am a believer of that. But turning human consideration into...

Nothing’s final yet

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ S. DELILAN AMID THE MassKara season, Bacolodnons and Negrosanons can’t help but glance at the latest updates on the “siblings’ war” in...

Politics and spaghetti

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN BACOLOD CITY’s ongoing MassKara Festival, in an unexpected twist, is being overshadowed by “spaghetti”, figuratively speaking. It refers to the tangled...