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The Sipalay City Local Youth Development Office is one of the 25 LYDOs and Sangguniang Kabataan Councils in the country that will receive national awards for outstanding work at rites in Iloilo City on June 12. In the Facebook page of the Philippine Sangguniang Kabataan Awards, it said that out of 483 submissions this year, Sipalay was one of the 25 awardees. Sipalay City is one of the two local government units to receive the award, the other one being the Local Youth Development Office of Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental. Sipalay City Mayor Gina Lizares said that she is happy with the recognition as it is the first time that the city’s LYDO has been awarded on a national level. The city government has been serious in implementing the functions of the youth development o...

Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson signed a Memorandum of Agreement with various schools and universities for a Student Internship Program with the Negros Occidental provincial government at the Capitol Social Hall in Bacolod City on Friday, May 26. “This has been an ongoing program, our colleges and universities have requested if their students can join the province as interns, “ he said. “The provincial government is seriously looking at the possibility of actually hiring them, especially the good ones. We would like to have the best for the province of Negros Occidental”, he said. The schools who joined the ceremonial signing were the University of St. La Salle – Bacolod, STI-West Negros University, Bacolod City College, Carlos Hilado Memorial State University, University of Negros ...

YLANO Chairperson Carmela Feria and Bacolod Bishop Patrico Buzon (6th and 7th from left) hold the MOA in the presence YLANO Vice Chair Dennis Udani, Integrated Bar of the Philippines president Gerry Llena, Social Action Center head Fr. Chris Gonzales, and other YLANO members at the Bishop's House on Tuesday. The Diocese of Bacolod’s Social Action Center and the Young Lawyers Association of Negros Occidental (YLANO) signed an agreement to give free legal services to indigent individuals in the church community at the Bishop’s House in Bacolod City, Tuesday morning, May 23. YLANO Chairperson Carmela Feria said that this program aims to give free legal or paralegal advice to the poor or those individuals who do not have the capacity to hire private lawyers. “Individuals with cases i...

Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson led the distribution of cash assistance and food packs to 57 former rebels at the Social Hall of the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City, Tuesday, May 16. “This distribution assistance is just proof that the provincial government is willing to help and support you,” Lacson said. The national government gave P5,000 and the provincial government gave food packs to each of the former rebels, he said. This is an ongoing program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to help the former rebels in their transition to becoming ordinary citizens, Acting Provincial Social Welfare Officer Ma. Gerla Sario said. The governor said that the assistance and cash payouts came from the regional DSWD office and provincial governmen...