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Negros Beat

VMC ‘at war’ with Negros planters

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE LUCIO TAN-led Victorias Milling Company (VMC) is currently “at war” with over a thousand sugar planters in Negros. What an...

Political ‘chop suey’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN BARELY two months before the official filing of certificates of candidacy (COCs) for the 2022 elections, Negros and Bacolod politics seem...

Corruption blah, blah, blah

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN NOWADAYS, going to Cadiz City in northern Negros will surely make you dumbfounded by the mushrooming commercial establishments left and right. Aside...

Bacolod’s ‘misunderstood hero’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ON JULY 10, 2021, Bacolod City lost someone who acted like a protagonist but often misunderstood because of his gigantic dream...

Ceneco in ‘silent chaos’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE CONTROVERSIAL Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) is in “silent chaos”. The cause is the much-talked 20-megawatt (MW), 12-month extension power deal...

Praiseworthy initiative

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN AMID the daily hubbub brought about by the current pandemic, Bacolod City has one COVID-19 response initiative worthy of praise. This...

VMC vs CARP

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE POLLUTION dispute in Barangay Purisima, Manapla, Negros Occidental involving the sugar-producing giant in Asia, Victorias Milling Company, Inc. (VMCI), has...

Miss Earth and ‘Mr. Binoro’

SOMETIMES the timing is “off”. Worse, if it’s questionable. May I refer this to the recent act of the Silay City government in giving cash assistance...

‘La Familia Integrada’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THREE months before the much-awaited filing of Certificates of Candidacy (CoCs) for the 2022 national and local elections, Negros political kibitzers...

‘Derby’ at Ceneco

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN UNKNOWN to the public yet, a “derby” among the directors of the highly controversial Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) silently started...