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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Negros Beat

Bellicose for blinds

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN LITERALLY and figuratively speaking, there’s this tyro cop in Bacolod City whose “bellicose for life” is forever fixed for his family...

‘Raiz de la grandeza’

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN LET’S CALL it “raiz de la grandeza” (root of greatness). It’s the soon-to-be-constructed P800-million Bacolod City General Hospital (BCGH). The groundbreaking for its...

A ‘pie in the sky’

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN AMIDST the current mess in the sugar industry, Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) acting administrator David John Thaddeus Alba announced recently that...

Reds’ dicey mission

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT SEEMS that commies in Negros Island are on a dicey mission anew. The recent assassinations of two village chiefs in...

Where’s Agnes?

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN WITH the “spat on the spot” between Councilor Al Victor Espino and traffic czar, Police Major Junji Liba, Bacolod City’s Mayor...

Silay’s ‘Mega 4’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ‘GREATNESS’ is now in the pipeline for Silaynons. Four major projects billed as “Mega 4” are bound to happen anytime soon in...

When the poor cry

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN BACOLOD City’s Mayor Albee Benitez’s promised-slash-proposed housing project for informal settlers will now have 10,000 units “up for grabs” in its...

‘Tultol teka’

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE HULLABALOO in the sugar industry is turning into a comedy skit. With the daily confusing updates, ordinary Filipinos can’t really...

‘Ant war’

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN STRAIGHT to the point: the country is currently witnessing an ala “ant war” amidst a sugar crisis be it genuine or artificial. In...

‘Pobreng alindahaw’

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN FIRST of all, Negrenses are thankful to Negros Occidental’s Gov. Bong Lacson for “putting out the fire” caused by a “word...