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A Governor’s Permit Holders’ Forum and signing of memoranda of agreements (MOAs) with Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose V. Lacson as keynote speaker will be held at the Negros Residences in Bacolod City on Tuesday morning, April 12.This is in collaboration with the Negros Occidental provincial government, Provincial-City Mining Rehabilitation Fund Committee (P-C/MRFC)-Negros Occidental, Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB)-Region 6, and the Negros Occidental Miners Permittees Association Inc. (NOMPAI), a press release from the Capitol said.The activity aims to provide the permit holders and the project implementers an opportunity to hear from national government agencies about new policies affecting sand and gravel (SAG), and quar...

The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council has placed Western Visayas, including Negros Occidental and Bacolod City, under red alert.The Philippine Coast Guard also suspended sea travel between Escalante City in Negros Occidental, and Tabuelan, Cebu, Sunday afternoon, April 10, the Philippine Coast Guard said.Tabuelan was placed under Signal No. 1 due to Tropical Storm "Agaton", it said.Mayor Marvin Malacon issued an executive order on Sunday suspending classes at all levels and work in government offices in EB Magalona, Negros Occidental, due to Tropical Depression Agaton until the red alert status in Negros Occidental is lifted.Tropical Storm “Agaton” is not expected to directly hit Negros Occidental and Bacolod City, Zeaphard Gerhart Caelian, Negros Occi...

Capitol photoThe P54 million Department of Education Schools Division Office (SDO) building in Kabankalan City was blessed and inaugurated on Friday, April 8.The three-story SDO building was the first to be built by the DepEd in the Visayas, and Kabankalan is very fortunate to have it, Kabakalan Mayor Pedro Zayco said.Zayco was joined by Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, DepEd Regional 6 Director Ramir Uytico and former 6th District Rep. Mercedes Alvarez at the inauguration rites.The SDO building in Kabankalan City is a flagship project of the DepEd School Building Program under the Public Schools of the Future Framework.DepEd SDO Kabankalan is headed by OIC Schools Division Superintendent, Nicasio Frio.Lacson said that the new SDO building is “a welcome d...

City PIO photoBacolod City's world-renowned MassKara Festival will be staged this year after a two-year hiatus following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic."This coming October, we will give you the best MassKara (Festival) ever," Leonardia told participants of the MSME Support Program launching Saturday, April 9, at the Bacolod City Government Center.The announcement of the festival's revival was met with cheers from businesses, imcluding those in the travel and tourism sector, who attended the "Ipadayon ang Negosyo kag Trabaho" launch over the weekend.Leonardia, who also said that the month-long celebration, as in its past stagings, will serve as a vehicle for Bacolod to re-position itself as a prime cultural destination and a major tourism event in this side of the...

PDEA photoThe Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is continuing to validate reports of some candidates engaged in narco-politics in Western Visayas.PDEA 6 has received information about the existence of narco-politics in the region, PDEA regional directed Alex Tablate said.This includes candidate being financed with illegal drugs money, he said, but admitted that they have had difficulty validating these reports.A lot of candidates have been hurling accusations against each other.*

The Philippine Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade and the Bacolod City government represented by Councilor Renecito Novero with the Bacolod City Veterans Association and Bacolod City Police Office commemorated the 80th Araw ng Kagitingan, or Day of Valor, at the Monument of Unknown Soldier, at the Bacolod Public Plaza on Saturday, April 9.Novero and Lt. Col. Arnel Calaoagan, 303rd Brigade executive officer, who represented BGen. Inocencio Pasaporte, and the Bacolod City Veterans Association Post president laid flowers at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier, a press release from the Army said.Calaoagan, in his message, said they were commemorating the Fall of Bataan, the culmination of a bloody battle for the Philippines—the last standing free nation in Eastern Asia during World War II. ...