BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed five candidates as winners in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) here through draw lots. JULY Mar Fernandez (seated right) secures the seventh spot as member of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) against Danilo...
BACOLOD CITY – One-hundred ninety-seven vendors here have secured permits to sell flowers for All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day from October 29 to November 2. PEOPLE purchase flowers for ‘Undas’ in Bacolod City. (Glazyl Masculino) Pacifico Maghari III, city administrator, said these...
BACOLOD CITY – Police said that the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) here and Negros Occidental were peaceful and orderly. RESIDENTS of Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City cast their vote in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections at AL Jayme Elementary School on Monday,...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez cast his vote in his first barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections as resident here on Monday, October 30. MAYOR Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ voted for the first time as resident of Bacolod City in the barangay elections at...
BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has issued show-cause orders to 19 candidates in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) here. KATHRINA Trinio-Caña, head of the Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Bacolod, delivers a message during the send-off ceremony for...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has ordered the City Legal Office to clear illegal structures inside a public cemetery here. PERSONNEL from the City Legal Office Enforcement Team clear illegal structures inside the Burgos Public Cemetery in Bacolod City on Tuesday, October 24. (Photo courtesy...
BACOLOD CITY – The new headquarters of the Police Station 7 in Barangay Mansilingan here was inaugurated on Wednesday, October 25. Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor, director of the Police Regional Office (PRO)-Western Visayas, Bacolod Rep. Greg Gasataya, retired Police Brig. Gen. Primitivo...
BACOLOD CITY – Ride hailing service Grab is gearing up for a mobility expansion here and Negros Occidental. Grab Philippines regional manager for Western Visayas Jocelyn Yoshida announced over the weekend that 900 cars are needed to enable Grab to be available for booking to any destination in...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) said on Monday, October 23, that the MassKara Festival here this year was generally peaceful. POLICE Col. Noel Aliño (center), Bacolod City police director, checks the deployment of policemen in one of the festival sites during the 44th...
BACOLOD CITY – Barangay Granada defended their MassKara Street Dance and Arena Competition title here on Sunday, October 22. BARANGAY Granada celebrates after winnig the MassKara Festival Street Dance and Arena Competition in Bacolod City on Sunday, October 22. (Balik Yuhum Foundation) This is...
From left: Bacolod City Legal Officer, Atty. Romeo Carlos M. Ting, Jr.; Hon. Alfredo Abelarde B. Benitez, Bacolod City Mayor; and Steven Tan, President, SM Supermalls sign the contract for the Manokan Country Redevelopment Project. SM Prime Holdings, Inc. yesterday turned over P131.89 million to...
From Instagram masskarafestival23 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. In the case of the Bacolodnons, especially back in the 1980s, when everything that could go wrong went wrong in Bacolod—a sugar crisis, a famine, a luxury liner, the MV Don Juan , sinking off the coast of Mindoro,...
