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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Negros Beat

Noble intention, ‘fatal’ repercussion

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE “sleeping cops” havoc in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental still refuses to die down for two weeks now. Media and netizens “feasted”...

Opps…who’s telling the truth?

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT SEEMS that Victorias Milling Company (VMC) and the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in Western Visayas are at “odds” right now. Is...

Yellow allergy

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S QUITE sad and lamentable to hear that the proposed P1-billion Negros-Panay mega bridges will no longer be realized. The recent announcement...

E-sabong hullabaloo

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ABSOLUTELY, cockfighting or sabong” reigns supreme in the Philippines. In Negros Occidental where the fighting cock industry remains the second largest next...

VMC in ‘hot water’ anew

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN UNKNOWN to some, the country’s sugar-producing giant, Victorias Milling Company (VMC)  in Negros Occidentaln is in “hot water” anew. Both its sugar...

A ‘sweetie’ cause

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THIS WEEK, hogging the headlines of local dailies in Bacolod City was the story of Janrey Artus who topped the Philippine...

Oh, Kingkong!

By ERWIN “AMBO’ DELILAN IS KingKong malas or buenas? For former Bacolod City councilor Ricardo “Cano” Tan could be both. KingKong, per the Wikepedia, is a giant movie monster,...

Puzzling but ‘fatal’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN MURDERED Negros Occidental provincial capitol consultant Marton Cui was laid to rest on April 20. He was assassinated in his hometown (San...

Vaccine brouhaha

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN AFTER thousands or even millions of doses of anti-COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to the country, cases continue to surge “beyond...