BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – The city government is optimistic about attracting more investors and boosting local tourism amid record-high local revenues and tourist arrivals since the start of the year. In his State-of-the-City Address on Wednesday night, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said reforms and...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here is awaiting the response of Mayor Jerry Treñas regarding his appeal to lift the executive order declaring Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran person non-grata over the uncoordinated transfer of Badjaos from this city to Iloilo City...
CEBU CITY – Construction of bridges that will connect key provinces in the Visayas was discussed in the recent reorganizational meeting of the National Economic and Development Authority Board-Regional Development Committee Visayas Area Committee (NB-RDCom VAC). BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has obtained a P4.4-billion loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to fund priority projects. THE city government of Bacolod has obtained a P4.441-billion loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines to fund priority project. The loan...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has a new director in Police Col. Noel Aliño who assumed the position in an acting capacity on Tuesday, April 18. Aliño, who is a native of Isabela, replaced Police Col. Thomas Joseph Martir, a native of Bacolod, who will retire from the...
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. believes that the government--specifically the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is doomed to fail in its campaign against e-sabong (electronic cockfighting) in...
BACOLOD CITY – Residents can now experience cashless transactions in public markets following the launching of Paleng-QR Ph Plus here on Tuesday, March 14. BANGKO Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Gov. Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Mayor Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez try the Paleng-QR Ph Plus in a...
BENITEZ BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘’Albee’’ Benitez recently revealed that a multi-billion company in China is planning to build an electric vehicle plant here. “It was an eye-opener,” Benitez said as he met several big companies in China during the state visit of...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here was installed as the new chairperson of the Regional Development Council (RDC) in Western Visayas. BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez, with his wife Dominique, takes his oath as the new chairperson of the Regional...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘’Albee’’ Benitez ordered the contractor and the Department of Public Services (DPS) on Friday, Nov. 18, to fast-track the collection of garbage here delayed by the damaged road leading to the sanitary landfill in Barangay Felisa. A GARBAGE truck...
BACOLOD CITY – Three local officials were among 10 persons who traveled to Japan with Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘’Albee’’ Benitez and tested positive for Covid-19. PHOTO shows Bacolod City officials led by Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez and 11 barangay chairmen, among others,...
Mayors Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City and Alfredo Abelardo "Albee" Benitez of Bacolod City have ended their almost week-long word war with reconciliatory words. MAYOR Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez (left) of Bacolod City and Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City. (Facebook) “The development of...
