Red Cross-Bacolod to use saliva-based COVID test
BACOLOD City – Starting next month, the molecular laboratory of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) here will be using saliva as an alternative specimen...
ICLAJODA opposes private inspection centers
ILOILO City – A transport group here is opposing the policy of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) requiring all motor vehicles to be inspected...
Pavia municipal hall closed for disinfection
ILOILO – The municipal hall of Pavia is off limits to the public today. The building would be disinfected.An employee of the Department of...
Bacolod resort sans biz permit shuttered
BACOLOD City – A newly-opened resort in Barangay Pahanocoy was ordered shut for a string of violations.
City Administrator Em Ang, executive director of the...
UP alumnus Defensor rues ditching of UP-DND accord
ILOILO – Keeping the security accord between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) would have been better...
P3.2-M shabu seized
ILOILO City – A top drug trafficking suspect here was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Buray, Oton, Iloilo. Shabu worth P3.2 million was...
WV records 210 ‘leptos’ cases in 2020; Death toll at 22, says DOH
ILOILO City – Last year, Western Visayas recorded 210 cases of leptospirosis, with 22 deaths, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
The figures were...
DU30’s help sought to probe Baciwa retrenchments
BACOLOD City – Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. asked President Rodrigo Duterte to look into the alleged illegal termination of 60 Bacolod City Water District...
Renewal of biz permits extended to Jan. 31
ILOILO City – Business permit applicants in this city will have more than a week to process their requirements.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved an...
NegOcc LGUs allot fund for COVID vaccination
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental have earmarked varying amounts to fund the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...