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Friday, February 14, 2025

Negros Beat

Deep but plangent

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S GOING deeper, but getting plangent. This is probably the current status of a row between Victorias Milling Company (VMC) and Save...

On ‘flying’ coffins and candelabra

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S WOEFUL! What an adjective to describe the Facebook (FB) post of a certain Jenard Britanico on June 1, 2021, showing...

‘Spare Mommy Love, please’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S BARELY five months before the filing of Certificates of Candidacy (CoCs) for the 2022 national and local elections. But talks about...

Arroz caldo with the ‘heart’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN AMIDST “uncertainties” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the current Duterte administration has intensified the campaign against the “un-ignorable” hunger in the...

Noble intention, ‘fatal’ repercussion

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE “sleeping cops” havoc in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental still refuses to die down for two weeks now. Media and netizens “feasted”...

Opps…who’s telling the truth?

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT SEEMS that Victorias Milling Company (VMC) and the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in Western Visayas are at “odds” right now. Is...

Yellow allergy

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S QUITE sad and lamentable to hear that the proposed P1-billion Negros-Panay mega bridges will no longer be realized. The recent announcement...

E-sabong hullabaloo

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ABSOLUTELY, cockfighting or sabong” reigns supreme in the Philippines. In Negros Occidental where the fighting cock industry remains the second largest next...

VMC in ‘hot water’ anew

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN UNKNOWN to some, the country’s sugar-producing giant, Victorias Milling Company (VMC)  in Negros Occidentaln is in “hot water” anew. Both its sugar...

A ‘sweetie’ cause

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THIS WEEK, hogging the headlines of local dailies in Bacolod City was the story of Janrey Artus who topped the Philippine...