Personnel of the Provincial Incident Management Team of Negros Occidental facilitate the offloading of the 3,080 vials of the AstraZeneca vaccines delivered to the province yesterday. IMT NEGROS OCC

NegOcc, Bacolod get more AstraZeneca vaccines

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA BACLOD City – The local governments of Negros Occidental and Bacolod City received additional AstraZeneca vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
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Defensor open for coalition with Biron, Garin; running mate in 2022 still unclear

ILOILO –Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. said he is open to form an alliance with two prominent political names despite them opposing him during the...

LTO-Bacolod temporarily shut

BACOLOD City – The Land Transportation Office (LTO) here was locked down effective yesterday. Two of its employees assigned in the registration division tested...

Kabankalan ‘drug den’ dismantled; 17 caught

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Kabankalan City police station raided a suspected...

Iloilo ramps up prevention, preparation for case surge

ILOILO City – This city and Iloilo province are exhausting all means to beef up quarantine curbs while also preparing for a possible surge...
(from left to right) MALONG, SANGRINES, TAÑAGRAS

Supermoms in uniform: How Ilongga cops are juggling duty, motherhood

ILOILO City – How would the world measure a mom’s love for her kids when most of her hours couldn’t be theirs? We read...
Dorothy Paes gets cozy with her daughter

THROUGH THICK AND THIN; Mom’s love endures, prevails

ILOILO – Mothers will always be mothers to their children, no matter how far they are from them. Three Ilongga overseas Filipino worker moms share...
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SP probing ‘improper waste disposal’ of food processing company

BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) here passed a resolution urging the City Health Office (CHO) and the City Environment and Natural Resources...
A healthcare worker administers a vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to a frontliner during Bacolod City’s five-day “mass vaccination” rollout for healthcare workers, elderly and persons with comorbidities. The event is spearheaded by the Emergency Operations Center and the COVID-19 Vaccination Council. A total of 433 Bacolodnons were inoculated on May 4, and 291 on May 3. The vaccination will run until May 7. BACOLOD CITY PIO

RIATF: ‘Low-risk’ areas must keep temporary COVID units on standby

ILOILO City – The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) in Western Visayas enjoined local government units (LGUs) to keep their temporary treatment and monitoring...
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Negros rejoices over feat of PMA cadet

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGABACOLOD City – Cadet 1st Class Janrey Cabanero Artus, the Negrense who topped his class in the Philippine Military Academy...