Power shortage in Visayas seenRotational brownouts across Negros loom
By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — Electric cooperatives in Negros Occidental are preparing for a possible power shortage in the Visayas grid.
Visayas may suffer from...
Ayalin a ‘high risk’ inmate at city jail
By MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City — From the Silay City police station lockup cell, murder suspect Noel Ayalin was transferred to the Metro Bacolod District...
‘Bingo Milyonaryo legal’
By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — Bingo Milyonaryo is legal, insisted an official of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in Negros Occidental.
The PCSO-sanctioned numbers game...
‘Negros can be renewable energy capital’
By EUGENE ADIONG
LA CARLOTA City — The Department of Energy (DOE) believes Negros Occidental can become the “Renewable Energy Capital of the Philippines.”
“With the...
Pasalamat, MassKara festivals in ‘Fiestas in the City’
By RAYMART ESCOPEL
NEGROS Occidental is considered the “sweetest province” in Western Visayas for its thriving sugar industry. But more than being the region’s Sugar...
3 nabbed for bribing Aklan police
By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan — Three people were arrested for offering cash to the police in exchange for dropping the charges against...
‘I will send you to jail!’
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – “Nobody can buy the governor of Iloilo,” declared an incensed Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr.
He was reacting to the insinuation of...
Luistro leads start of Brigada Eskwela today
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
NUEVA Valencia, Guimaras – Education Secretary Armin Luistro will spearhead the regional launching of Brigada Eskwela – bayanihan-style cleaning of school rooms – here...
Couple killed in road crash
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
DUMANGAS, Iloilo – A barangay kagawad and his live-in partner died in a vehicular accident in Brgy. Dacutan, this municipality.
Fifty-two-year old...
RMU-6 steps up Boracay security
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
BORACAY – The Regional Maritime Unit 6 (RMU-6) has stepped up their security in this island to secure local and international...