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The Energy Development Corporation's (EDC) Southern Negros Geothermal Project has once again been bestowed the Gawad Tugas Award, this time for the Clean Air and Water-Power plant category, from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for going beyond compliance through its exemplary performance in environmental protection, conservation, and management.Now on its 6th year, the prestigious GawadTugas award is conferred to local government units, public and private organizations that have innovated and demonstrated ingenuity and significant milestones in protecting the environment, a press release from EDC said Monday, July 5.“We have to harness the so-called collaboration of one another for a better tomorrow. I would like to request our dear friends from the LGUs and var...

Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod in partnership with SMART Communications and with the Parent Teachers Association-Basic Education Department (PTA-BED) and Parent Teachers Association Tertiary Level (PTA-TL) is giving out perks to students who will officially enroll for the academic year 2021-2022.CSA-Bacolod is giving out loaded sims to the early bird enrollees of the following programs: Information Technology (IT), Hospitality Management (HM), Tourism Management (TM), Education and Engineering programs, incoming grade 11 of Humanities & Social Sciences strand, and early bird enrollees in the grade school level.Other than the loaded sim cards, the students will also have a chance to win raffle prizes from SMART such as a laptop, a smartphone, and load cards.In celebration of th...

Murcia Mayor Gerry Rojas, accompanied by his staff Liezl Toledano, MSWDOfficer Ana Naranja, CanlandogPunong Barangay Reynaldo Gawan, Purok President Gina Gibara, OIC-Tourism Officer Estela Barbo and AbangLingkod Murcia coordinator Mario Naruda, distributes food packs to residents of Sitio Monark, Brgy. Canlandog.*Murcia Mayor Gerry Rojas, with Canlandog Punong Barangay Reynaldo Gawan and Purok President Gina Gibara, gives a food pack to a resident of Sitio Monark, Brgy. Canlandog.*More than a year from the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Murcia Mayor Victor Gerardo M. Rojas continues to provide assistance to needy residents of the town.This time, the beneficiaries were indigents residing in remote, poverty-stricken mountain sitios of the municipality, a press release said.If th...

Acting Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Richard Sisson is visiting Bacolod City and Negros Occidental this week.Sisson is currently a senior career officer with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).On Tuesday, June 29, the diplomat will pay a courtesy call on Mayor Evelio Leonardia in the morning at the Bacolod City Government Center, where he is expected to be given a briefing by the mayor and city officials on the ongoing and future programs and projects of the city.“We hope that the visit of the Australian Ambassador will pave the way for wider cultural, tourism, and business exchanges between Australia and Bacolod City," the mayor said.Before he became Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Manila in July 2019, Sisson w...

Rep. Francisco "Kiko" Benitez marked his 52nd birthday by distributing 2,000 foodpacks to healthcare workers and patients confined at the Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital (TLJPH) in Silay City and at healing and quarantine facilities in the Third District of Negros Occidental.Attached to the foodpacks were cards from the congressman that read: “We thank the Lord for the gift of life, as we pray for healing. Kabay pa nga ikaw kag ang imu pamilya maka-angkon sang maayong lawas, kalinong kag kabaskug.”The foodpacks were distributed at the TLJPH, Silay Healing Facility and Silay Recovery Center in Silay City; Mambukal Resort, Murcia National High School, Murcia East Elementary School, CPAC Quarantine Facility and Alegria Elementary School in Murcia; Rafael B. Lacson Memorial H...

Ramon Uy, right, at the launching of the RU Group of Companies community pantry and community garden on Saturday, June 12.*The RU Group of Companies community pantry and community garden for residents of Barangay Pahanocoy in Bacolod City was launched on Saturday, June 12.The project not only aims to provide immediate assistance to those in need but livelihood opportunities as a long term solution to uplift their lives , Ramon Uy, the firm’s owner, said.On Saturday, his firm distributed vegetable packs to 975 residents, including tricycle drivers, in Pahanocoy, Uy said.It was a joint project with the barangay council headed by Yolanda Noble that also provided rice packs and delivered the assistance to the doorsteps of the identified recipients to avoid a mass gathering ami...

Murcia Mayor Victor Gerardo M. Rojas presented a certificate of commendation to Murcia PNP OIC P/Capt. Jerald V. Muya (5th and 4th from left and his entire staff for exemplary achievements in the performance of their duties in the presence of councilors Kedy Yu, Adrian Olimpo, Vice Mayor Johnny Reosura, councilors Belen Magbanua, Hernan Alintana and Alfredo Villarosa (l-r).*Murcia Mayor Victor Gerardo Rojas commended recently the Murcia Philippine National Police Officer-in-Charge, P/Capt. Jerald V. Muya, and his entire staff for exemplary achievements in the performance of their duties.Rojas cited the Murcia PNP’s unrelenting drive was against illegal drugs, particularly in the arrest of two suspected drug pushers and the confiscation of more than 600 grams of suspected shabu val...