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The Ledesmas and Aranetas for Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangilinan will hold a tri-city unity walk in Bacolod, Iloilo and Makati on Saturday, April 30.The Aranetas for Robredo and Pangilinan joining the event will include relatives of the wife of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Felix Golez said.The assembly point of the Bacolod Unity Walk will be at the South Capitol Road at 8 to 8:30 a.m. and senior citizen members will follow in their vehicles in a mini caravan, he said.There will also be a “Palugaw sang Kakampink Volunteers”, he said.Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson will also deliver a message at the event.*

Mayor Evelio Leonardia said on Friday, April 30, that the current administration is preparing the groundwork for the elevation of the Bacolod City College to university status.Leonardia, who established the BCC in 1997, said that is the reason why the local government has recently invested about P350 million for the completion of various facilities of the BCC that include the 1,000-seat airconditioned activity center, Information Systems Building, Business Education Building and Administration Building with library extension.The Information Systems and Business Education Buildings have design provisions for additional two floors.“One of the requirements for the BCC to be elevated to a university status is an activity center. That alone costs P110 million…There is no other schoo...

There are now seven out of 31 local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental under Alert Level 1 from May 1 to 15.Bacolod City also remains under Alert Level 1.The Inter-Agency Task Force added Candoni to the six other LGUs under Alert Level 1, Acting Presidential Spokesman Martin Andanar announced Friday, April 29.The rest on Negros Occidental remains under Alert Level 2, he added.Candoni joins the cities of Sagay, La Carlota and Victorias, and the municipalities of EB Magalona, Pulupandan and San Enrique under Alert Level 1, Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said.Aklan, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo Province and Iloilo City are also under Alert Level 1, Andanar said.Amlan in Negros Oriental is under Alert Level 1, while the rest of the province in under Ale...

Presidential candidate Isko Moreno, with Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia, speaks to the crowd at the Bacolod City Government Center on Thursday, April 28.*Ricardo “Cano Gwapo” Tan, independent candidate for Bacolod councilor, said on Thursday, April 28, that he has decided to disaffiliate himself from the Aksyon Demokratiko party of presidential candidate Isko Moreno because of the apparent disrespect for his designation as the party's chairman in Bacolod City.Tan said he was disrespected when he was not informed of several activities of Moreno in Bacolod City.Moreno's activities during the political campaign have not been coordinated with him and being the party chairman in the city, such acts were damaging to his leadership, Tan said in a statement.Tan was appointed Ak...

Presidential candidate Isko Moreno and his team at a grand rally at the Bacolod Public Plaza Thursday night, April 28.*Ronnie Baldonado photoPresidential candidate Isko Moreno Damagoso said he is offering peace of mind to the Filipino people amid the numerous problems that they are facing.Moreno held rallies in Binalbagan and Bacolod City, and met with Mayor Evelio Leonardia and cheering Grupo Progreso supporters at the Bacolod City Government Center on Thursday, April 28.“The people are tired of the infighting of the red and yellow,” Moreno told the crowd at the government center.“We don’t deserve infighting of warring political colors,” he said.“I am encouraging you, come with me, join me, we’ll move on. We will not forget what happened in the past so we will remembe...

The ballots at the Negros Occidental Food Terminal Market at the North Capitol Road in Bacolod City on Thursday, April 28.*The ballots of the 1,946,639 registered voters of Negros Occidental and Bacolod City that arrived Wednesday night will be distributed to the offices of the town and city treasurers for safekeeping this week, Acting Provincial Elections Supervisor, Roberto Salazar, said Thursday, April 28.The ballots that arrived at the BREDCO port in container vans from Manila at 9 p.m. Wednesday were brought to the Negros Occidental Food Terminal Market at the North Capitol Road in Bacolod City on Thursday morning for safekeeping, he said.They are being secured by the Philippine National Police under the supervision of the Comelec, while being segregated for dispatch to t...

GoJust II team leader Christian Eldon and Executive Judge Raymond Joseph Javier at the Bacolod City Justice Zone meeting Thursday.*Bacolod City Justice Zone members met Thursday, April 28, to find ways to reduce the backlog in pending cases and decongest overcrowded jails in the city.The strategic planning session to identify problems and solutions was held at Park Inn by Radisson Hotel in Bacolod City.The three jail facilities in Bacolod City with about 1,500 inmates are congested by 300 percent, Executive Judge Raymond Joseph Javier of the Bacolod Regional Trial Court said.He also said 80 percent are detained for drug related cases.The Bacolod City Justice Zone meeting was attended by representatives from the Supreme Court, Department of Justice and the Department of ...

BCPO photoPolice seized P3.4 million worth of drugs and arrested three men, including high-value suspects, during a buy-bust operation at Barangay Banago, Bacolod City, early Thursday, April 28.Nabbed were high-value individual Sandy Romero, 25, street-level individual Sunny Boy Guino-ohan, 47, and Rudy Talabon, 56.Recovered from the suspects’ possession were P5,000 in marked money, 12 sachets containing suspected shabu, five plastic bags containing suspected shabu, a handbag, and a coin purse.The seized drugs from the suspects weighed 500 grams with an estimated worth of P3.4 million.The suspects are now detained at Police Station 3 and facing drug charges.*