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SEARCH. The Philippine Coast Guard Bacolod personnel search for a trapped whale shark in a fish cage, about 1 kilometer from the shoreline of Brgy. Banago, Bacolod City, to set it free but they could not find it.*PCG photo

PROTEST. Members of the Medical Front Liners Alliance in Bacolod City staged a protest in front of the Fountain of Justice Tuesday, September 21, to call on the government to release their special risk allowances and other benefits for their service in the fight against COVID-19.*

Negros Occidental officials with Kabankalan Mayor Pedro Zayco (right),who tested positive for COVID-19, at the Love Negros meeting at Nature’s Village Resort in Talisay City, Saturday, September 18.*Talisay PIO photo

CLEAN-UP DAY. The Philippine Coast Guard-Negros Occidental, along with other government agencies and Barangay Banago officials, conducted a clean up drive and mangrove planting at the PCG adopted coastal and mangrove conservation area in puroks Alalahoy and Baybayon, Brgy. Banago, Bacolod City on Friday, September 17.*PCG photo

TRAFFIC RE-ROUTE. A container van got caught in the telephone cables and brought the pole down at Araneta Street, Bacolod City on Friday, September 17, causing traffic officials to re-route the traffic as it was impassable.*Barbara Mijares photo

Would-be voters endure long queues at the Commission on Elections-Bacolod office Thursday, September 16, as registration ends on September 30.*Barbara Mijares photo

GHOST TOWN. Residents near the clash site at Sitio Balik-Balik, Brgy. Tabu, Ilog, Negros Occidental, flee from their homes Tuesday, September 14, following the encounter between state troopers and suspected members of the New People's Army that led to death of four rebels, injury of two and arrest of one.*Romeo Subaldo photo

Two persons were gunned down at Purok Lampirong, Barangay 2, Bacolod City, Tuesday, September 14.*Nico Delfin photo

NEGROS’ PRIDE. Negrense director Erik Matti receives the best actor award of John Arcilla at the recently concluded 78th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, for his performance in the movie “On The Job: The Missing 8.” The movie was directed by Matti.*

Private First Class Christopher Alada, who was killed in Negros Occidental, was laid to rest at the Brgy Badiangan Public Cemetery in Iloilo on Saturday, September 11.*79th IB photo