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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Winds of Sugarlandia

Isolate Negros

BY MATÈ ESPINA WITH the rising cases of COVID-19 in our midst, local chief executives in Panay are seriously mulling to close their borders from...

COVID hits close to home

BY MATÉ ESPINA THEY used to be statistics. Now, they are people we know. Birthdays and anniversaries interspersed with call for prayers as COVID-19 cases...

No lockdown but…

BY MATÉ ESPINA BACOLOD City and Negros Occidental cannot declare a lockdown but sentiments expressed by officials clearly want, at the very least, closed borders...

State-managed farming – a solution to poverty

BY MATÉ ESPINA FROM the title itself, this new bill seeks to cover all government lands for agricultural business as a supposed solution to poverty. House...

Resolution 101 fails

BY MATÉ ESPINA THE CALL to disband the current composition of the National Inter Agency Task Force (NIATF) is gaining ground for the increasing COVID-19...

Loosen up

BY MATÉ ESPINA NEGROS Occidental is loosening up in time to welcome summer. A new executive order signed by Gov. Bong Lacson adopted the IATF resolution...

Family planning and COVID-19

BY MATÉ ESPINA IF PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is to be believed, the reason why it was hard for the country to contain the spread of...

Inday Sara

BY MATÉ ESPINA IT WAS a sea of green as supporters of Davao City mayor Sara Duterte Carpio converged at the New Government Center over...

Who gets the vaccines?

BY MATÉ ESPINA ACCEPTABILITY to get inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines has increased a bit according to City Administrator and head of the Emergency Operations Center,...

Defying IATF

BY MATÉ ESPINA THE WESTERN Visayas Regional Inter Agency Task Force, enjoined by the local government units (LGUs) here in Negros Occidental including Bacolod City,...