We are a small but well maintained Beach Resort, 25 minutes from Dumaguete center, on the island Negros. (Negros Oriental).
The island offers good possibilities for diving, swimming, biking and for motorcycle routes, or just for relaxing on the beach. From our gardens directly at the sea, you have a beautiful view of Apo Island; one of [...]

BY NDIA BUENAFE (www.visayandailystar.com)
Merlito Sabillo gets the chance to prove himself as the next boxing sensation from Bacolod City when he takes on Manileño Ruther Del Castillo in an 8-round fight in the 106 lbs. division tonight at the PAGCOR Bacolod Amphitheater, Casino Hotel.
Win or loss, Del Castillo is guaranteed to take home P10,000 cash [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
The heads of the two transportation groups in Negros Occidental  welcomed the announcement yesterday of new price rollbacks by Shell and Petron effective today,  but said it still was not enough considering the huge drop in fuel prices in the world market.
Elizabeth Katalbas, president of the Federation of Bacolod City Drivers Associations, [...]

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BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
The Pirates of the Caribbean have hit land and are busy unloading treasures to bring cheer to a festive Christmas village alive with the holiday spirit.
They are the among newest additions to a miniature Christmas village artist-designer Bamboo Tonogbanua has created at his ancestral home at San Juan Street in [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)

United Negros Drivers Operators Center members are expected to voluntarily lower their fare to P7 Monday in response to the drop in fuel prices, UNDOC secretary general Jesse Ortega said yesterday.“We are dropping our fare rates by 50 centavos from the P7.50 mandated rate even without an order from government as [...]

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Exporters in Western Visayas are encouraged by the Bureau of International Trade Relations of the Department of Trade and Industry to submit their position papers on the tariff and market access negotiations in the World Trade Organization.
They could present their positions to the government, BITR Assistant Director Angelo Salvador Benedictos said yesterday at the WTO [...]

BY NIDA BUENAFE (www.visayandailystar.com)
Reigning World Cup of Pool titlist Rodney Morris will anchor the selection of topnotch foreign cue artists in their encounter with the cream of Philippine billiards’ crop in the much-anticipated Q.C. Invasion: Quezon City-Philippines vs. the World Grand VILLARDS Showdown, Dec. 2-4 at the Trinoma Mall in Quezon City, a press release [...]

BY RENE GENOVE (www.visayandailystar.com)
The Department of Trade and Industry, in cooperation with the Negros Oriental Investment Promotion Center, will hold the “Negros Oriental Information Technology Expo 2008″ Dec. 1 and 2 at the Negros Oriental Convention Center, in Dumaguete City.
DTI provincial director Javier Fortunato Jr. said the expo aims to highlight the capabilities of local [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO(www.visayandailystar.com)
Bacolod Comelec registrar Mavil Majarucon yesterday appealed to the public to register as early as possible.
Majarucon said the resumption of the system of continuing registration of voters will start on Tuesday and will run until Dec. 15, 2009.
She said the registration will be held at the Bays Center in Bacolod City from [...]

BY ALEX PAL (www.visayandailystar.com)
“It doesn’t matter.” Rep. George Arnaiz (Neg. Or, 2nd District) said while admitting that the province of Negros Oriental received P5 million worth of fertilizers, farm implements and equipment from the Department of Agriculture in February 2004.

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BY NIDA BUENAFE (www.visayandailystar.com)
Overcoming pressure and maintaining his composure after squandering a 6-0 early lead, veteran pool player and 2006 US Open runner-up Rodolfo Luat prevailed over Bacolod City’s billiard hero Ramil “Bebing” Gallego, 13-10, to bag the $15,000 cash prize of the First Senate President Manny Villar Cup Bacolod leg at the Garden Royale, [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)

More than 1,000 bikers joined the Go Bike Pilipinas 2008 cycling fun ride in Bacolod City Saturday to push for a healthy lifestyle. In a message read for her at a program in front of the Provincial Capitol building in Bacolod City, Senator Pia Cayetanao said she supports the Philippine Society of [...]

BY NIDA BUENAFE (www.visayandailystar.com)

Negrense billiard champion Ramil “Bebeng” Gallego remained on track of his goal of getting his second title in the ongoing Villards Cup 9-Ball island-hopping series by dismissing Japanese Kenji Taguchi, 11-5, yesterday to advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament.

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BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
Smuggled Thai sugar worth P2.5 million was intercepted Thursday afternoon and will be confiscated by the Bureau of Customs, Manuel Lamata, president of the United Sugar Producers Federation of the Philippines Inc., said yesterday.

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BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson yesterday said he will ask that local officials, including those from Negros Occidental, who were offered a share of the P728 million controversial fertilizer funds be summoned to testify before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee.

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Dennis Orcollo will try to reaffirm his status as the world no.1 cue artist today as he competes in the First Senate President Manny Villar Cup Bacolod Leg, which unfurls tomorrow at the Garden Royal Function Hall of Goldenfields Commercial Complex.

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BY GILBERT BAYORAN (www.visayandailystar.com)
Region 6 police director Isagani Cuevas yesterday said he will not condone or tolerate any form of violence at the 6th Regional Mobile Group, and vowed to file administrative and criminal charges against those involved in the alleged maltreatment of 51 policemen and women enrolled in the Special Counter-Insurgency Course Training at [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
A Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows of Bacolod City that was distributed to the media yesterday, showed that for 2005 the city government spent P262,273,000.84 for payment/reimbursement of traveling expenses.
It also paid total traveling expenses of P3,881,919.56 in 2006, based on a Commission on Audit report.
City Accountant Ed Ravena, however, [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
“Drivers stop killing bikers…Ben Moraña was the victim of a reckless driver.”That was the message on a black streamer draped on the hearse that brought biker Benjamin Moraña, 46, to his final resting place at the Santuario de Bacolod in Barangay Alijis, Bacolod City, yesterday afternoon.

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 BY GILBERT BAYORA (www.visayandailystar.com)
BRGY. MAILUM, Bago City – The Energy Development Corp. is running against time in meeting its target of commissioning the estimated P2 billion geothermal pads inside the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park buffer zone by 2011. Erwin Magallanes, Environmental Senior Supervisor of the Northern Negros Geothermal Power Plant Field, yesterday said they have [...]

By: Carla Gomez (www.visayandailystar.com)
US Ambassador Kristie Kenney said she is hugely optimistic about the Philippines, despite the worldwide economic crisis, because of the creativity and ingenuity of its people as she saw during her visit to Talisay and Bacolod cities Friday.

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By: Carla Gomez (www.visayandailystar.com)
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board regional chief Porfirio Clavel yesterday warned jeep and bus drivers who continue to refuse to roll back their fare prices, that sanctions will be imposed on them.

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The Pintaflores Festival shall be considered as the official festival of the City of San Carlos, Province of Negros Occidental which is being held every 5th of November on the same day of the commemoration of the historic “Al Cinco de Noviembre” which is declared a provincial holiday of Negros Occidental.

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Founded in 1760, Silay evolved from being an old Spanish settlement. Migrant families from Iloilo gave vigor to Silay, making it an important commercial and agricultural settlement during the Spanish era. In 1846, cultivation of sugarcane led by Yves Leopold Germain Gaston made the town prosperous. November 5, 1898 played a significant role in Silay’s [...]