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Dec112022 by Marchel P. EspinaNo Comments

Groups claim human rights violations in Negros ‘worse’

Progressive groups hold a protest on International Human Rights Day in front of the Fountain of Justice in Bacolod City.*Bayan Negros photoThe human rights situation in Negros Island has worsened under the Marcos administration, progressive groups claimed in a statement issued during International Human Rights Day on Saturday, December 10.“The new Marcos regime seems to relish in continuing this legacy. Not even six months into his term, there is continued hamletting of far-off peasant communities, where the Armed Forces of the Philippines and other state mercenaries fabricate ‘encounters’ with alleged rebels to justify the displacement of civilians,” local chapters of Bayan and Karapatan said in a statement.In Himamaylan City, they said that “more than 15,000 civilians were fo...

Dec112022 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Bago tops WV tax, fees collection efficiency

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Bago Treasurer Caruso Villaflor Jr. (right) presents to Mayor Nicholas Yulo the trophies given to the city government during the Bureau of Local Government Finance and Regional Association of Treasurers and Assessors in Region VI Inc. recognition rites held in Murcia, Negros Occidental, recently.*Bago PIO photoBago City Mayor Nicholas Yulo lauded the men and women behind the City Treasurer’s Office for their exemplary work as the local government topped the tax and other fees collection efficiency in Western Visayas.Bago bagged three awards during the Bureau of Local Government Finance and Regional Association of Treasurers and Assessors in Region VI Inc. (Regata VI) recognition ceremony held at the Mambukal Resort and Wildlife Sanctuary in Murcia town recently , a press release fr...

Dec92022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Lacson, Benitez issue joint EO setting guidelines vs. bird flu

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Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (l-r)*Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez have issued a joint executive order establishing the guidelines for the ban on the entry of all live domestic and wild birds, and their products, including eggs and manure, from areas with reported cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu.The ban covers live birds and their products from Luzon, Mindanao, Panay and Guimaras.Exempted from the ban are raw poultry meat regardless of shipping origin, subject to compliance with requirements.The guidelines set the powers and responsibilities of veterinary inspectors.The EO also outlines also outlines the strengthening of biosa...

Dec92022 by Martian MuycoNo Comments

Killing of security agency owner linked to another shooting case

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The scene of the shooting incident.*The Bacolod City Station 8 cops are still trying to gather the closed circuit television footage near Henrietta Village in Barangay Singcang-Airport where a businessman was gunned down Wednesday night, December 7.Maj. Joery Puerto, Police Station 8 chief, said they are still investigating if the gunman was the same person responsible for the killing of a security guard in Barangay Mandalagan on August. 25.Police are looking at a business conflict as one of the motives for the killingTheir investigation revealed that an incorporator of the company, who had been fired by the victim identified as Ivan Magbanua, reportedly had a grudge.The corporation's warehouse is being guarded by the security agency of Magbanua so the former incorporat...

Dec92022 by Digicast NegrosNo Comments

Third District conducts ecotourism consultation

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Rep. Francisco Benitez at the consultative meeting on ecotourism Friday, December 12.*The office of Rep. Francisco Benitez (Neg. Occ. 3rd District) spearheaded the holding of a consultative meeting on ecotourism Friday, December 9, as part of the two-day assessment visit of the Regional EcoTourism Committee VI to selected sites in the 3rd District.The meeting was held in partnership with the Department of Tourism (DOT), Department of Environment and Natural Resources Economic and Development (DENR) and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) that comprise the Regional EcoTourism Committee (REC).Local chief executives and tourism officers of the Third District, tourism stakeholders, and members of the Protected Area Management Board of Northern Negros Natural Park (NN...

Dec92022 by Marchel P. EspinaNo Comments

2 die in La Carlota mishap

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The scene of the accident where two brothers died in Barangay Cubay, La Carlota City.* La Carlota PNP photoA driver and his brother were killed after the motorcycle they were riding on slammed into a parked truck at the highway in Barangay Cubay, La Carlota City, Thursday, December 8.Killed were John Lawrence Mesobre, 19, and his younger brother Joven Desoyo, 17. Their companion, Dan Fred Locsin, who was also riding on their motorcycle, was injured.Lt. Col. Lowell Garingano, city police chief, said the truck driven by Jonnel Bayarcal malfunctioned and was parked on the side of the road.He also installed a warning device.But because Mesobre's motorcycle was going fast, he wasn’t able to avoid the truck, the police said.The truck driver was already released from polic...

Dec92022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Acting head of Brgy 16 takes oath before mayor

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Stella dela Peña takes her oath as acting barangay captain before Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez.*Bacolod PIO photoStella dela Peña took her oath as acting barangay captain of Barangay 16 before Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez at the Bacolod City Government Center Friday afternoon, December 9.She took her oath after the Sangguniang Panlungsod suspended barangay captain Joseph de los Santos for six months.The oath taking was witnessed by Department of the Interior and Local Government-Bacolod Director Maredith Joy Madayag, City Legal Officer Romeo Carlos Ting Jr. and Rep. Stephen Paduano (Abang Lingkod Partylist).Dela Peña was accompanied by Richard Arellano – Brgy 16 secretary, Annaliza Santiago – treasurer and kagawads Jie Rodolfo Madrigal, Franz Familliaran...

Dec92022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Negros has adequate supply of chickens, eggs despite ban

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The supply of chickens and eggs in Negros Occidental will not be affected by a ban imposed by Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson to protect the province’s P8 billion poultry industry from the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).The governor has banned the entry into Negros Occidental of all live domestic and wild birds, ready to lay pullets, and their products, including table eggs and manure, from Luzon, Mindanao, Panay and Guimaras.HPAI cases have been detected in Capiz and Iloilo.Dr. Placeda Lemana, OIC-Provincial Veterinarian, said the 325,000 table eggs from Iloilo and 666,667 from Capiz purchased by Negros Occidental a month can be covered by those produced in the province.Negros Occidental producers sell about 2.4 million eggs a month to other parts of the country, and lo...

Dec92022 by Barbara MijaresNo Comments

24 brgys in Negros, 1 in Bacolod declared drug free, PDEA says

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Jyxyvzcky Escrupulo, Provincial Drug Enforcement Agency Negros Occidental provincial director.*Twenty-four more barangays in Negros Occidental and one in Bacolod City have been declared drug free, Jyxyvzcky Escrupulo, Provincial Drug Enforcement Agency Negros Occidental provincial director, said Friday, December 9.Declared drug free during a Regional Oversight Committee meeting were Barangay 41 in Bacolod City, and barangays in Bago City, Binalbagan, Calatrava, EB Magalona, Escalante, Pontevedra, Isabela, Himamaylan, Murcia, Silay City, Toboso and Manapla.Bacolod City now has 14 drug cleared barangays and Negros Occidental has 394.The drug cleared barangays in Negros Occidental are 61.56 percent and in Bacolod City - 21.31 percent.*

Dec92022 by Carla P. GomezNo Comments

Bizmen seek exemptions from new truck ban rule

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Businessmen are asking for exemptions from the new truck ban to be implemented at the Bacolod City circumferential road from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. starting Monday, December 12.The truck ban is being imposed to ease traffic in Bacolod City, especially over the holidays, Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said Wednesday.Frank Carbon, executive director of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said they are asking for a window between 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. for the regulated movement of trucks when traffic is not heavy.Maj. Junji Liba, Bacolod Traffic Authority Office (BTAO) head, said they cannot grant exemptions as it may set a precedent.The mayor wants us to stick to the original plan, he said.A meeting is set with the concerned sectors on Saturday, Liba said....