Tacloban City — The 10 bricks of suspected cocaine found by a group of teenagers in Borongan City, Eastern Samar, and turned over to the police on May 6 were not cocaine after all, an official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, said yesterday. Liza Baoy, information officer of PDEA in Eastern Visayas, said that [...]
Bacolod City — Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. and the mayors of Negros Occidental are asking President Aquino to stop offshore mining of magnetite-laden sand, citing irreversible damage to the province’s coastal areas and marine ecosystems. They also asked Aquino to direct the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mines and Geosciences Bureau (DENR-MGB) to stop accepting [...]
WANT whiter skin? Better stick to natural methods like eating lots of watermelon, avocado, broccoli, spinach and tomatoes to boost natural glutathione levels in your body, said the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA gave this bit of advice to complexion-conscious Filipinos, warning that high doses of glutathione administered intravenously as a skin whitening agent [...]
Bacolod City — SM Prime Holdings Inc. is offering to buy or lease a 6.5-hectare property owned by the Negros Occidental provincial government on Gatuslao Street where it plans to build a convention center and hotel. Hans Sy, SM Prime Holdings Inc. president, said his company also planned to expand its present SM City Mall [...]
BACOLOD CITY — A congressman in Negros Occidental has drafted a resolution asking the House committee on energy to investigate disparities between the prices of oil products sold in Metro Manila and prices of gasoline and other petroleum products sold in the province. House Resolution 1218 filed by Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (Neg. Occ., 3rd [...]
Bacolod City — The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has put its housing loan program on hold as it is faced with total unpaid loans of P11 billion for 17,000 house-and-lot packages nationwide. “The GSIS means business in protecting the resources of its stakeholders, which may have been abused in the past,” said its chairman, [...]
CEBU CITY—Mother’s Day celebrations and fiesta meals in the Visayas were delayed as fans watched and cheered for Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao. Traffic dropped in the cities of Cebu, Bacolod and Iloilo as most residents were glued to their television and radio sets and kept tabs of the match. As in previous matches, police [...]
ILOILO CITY — Party-list groups will push for an investigation of the significant disparity between oil prices in the provinces and Metro Manila, according to Bayan Muna Rep. Teodoro “Teddy” Casiño. “We will not only address the complaints of transport groups in (Western Visayas) with regard to the disparities in pump prices that are much [...]
1,730 families displaced by floods, landslide brought by ‘Bebeng’ in Eastern Visayas Ormoc City — A man drowned while at least 1,730 families were temporarily displaced when floods and landslide hit a town and a city in Leyte and two towns in Northern Samar due to heavy rains brought by tropical storm “Bebeng.” Luis Bengcol, [...]
Bacolod City — The police in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City will be on heightened alert today as Negrenses flock to different venues in the province and in the city to watch the match between Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and American boxer Sugar Shane Mosley. Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz, Bacolod city police [...]
BACOLOD CITY — Negros Occidental may face a serious power shortage by 2014 if the province doesn’t build its own power plant starting this year. The warning came from Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras on Thursday during a meeting with Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. and his chief of staff, Jose Ma. Valencia in Manila. “The [...]
Bacolod City — At least two persons were killed and 10 others were wounded on Wednesday night when a bus fell into a ravine on the outskirts of San Carlos City in Negros Occidental. Five or six passengers were unaccounted for. One of the fatalities was Teodoro Aburido, driver of the Ceres Liner bus, which [...]
