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Negros Beat

Negrense soon to be space explorer

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN SOONER or later, let’s not be surprised that one of the explorers in outer space is a Negrense. He is Ethan Acaling-Derikito,...

‘Didi’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’DELILAN THE classic biblical story of a “mismatch” fight between David and Goliath is happening soon in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. And this is...

Comedy of errors

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) is like having a “circus” right now. And the “greatest show” that consumer-member-owners (CMOs) are watching...

Killings and brownouts

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN ASIDE from the spiking cases of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), there are two other things that keep on pestering Bacolodnons –...

Confidence boosters

THE PLEDGE of G-7 leaders to provide at least one billion vaccine doses to 92 poor and lower-middle-income countries and last week’s emerging positive...

‘Lulubog, lilitaw’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN THE PROPOSED P1-billion Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) bridges are like “lulubog” (will sink) and “lilitaw” (will appear), making both Ilonggos and Negrenses “ramble”. Senators...

Deep but plangent

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S GOING deeper, but getting plangent. This is probably the current status of a row between Victorias Milling Company (VMC) and Save...

On ‘flying’ coffins and candelabra

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S WOEFUL! What an adjective to describe the Facebook (FB) post of a certain Jenard Britanico on June 1, 2021, showing...

‘Spare Mommy Love, please’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN IT’S BARELY five months before the filing of Certificates of Candidacy (CoCs) for the 2022 national and local elections. But talks about...

Arroz caldo with the ‘heart’

BY ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN AMIDST “uncertainties” due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the current Duterte administration has intensified the campaign against the “un-ignorable” hunger in the...