BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
A public hearing on the proposed flyover projects in Bacolod City will be conducted by the Committee on Public Works chaired by Bacolod Councilor Roberto Rojas Tuesday, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said yesterday.
Rojas said the public hearing will be conducted on the resolutions proposed by Councilors Catalino Alisbo, Celia Flor and [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
A public hearing on the proposed flyover projects in Bacolod City will be conducted by the Committee on Public Works chaired by Bacolod Councilor Roberto Rojas Tuesday, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said yesterday.
Rojas said the public hearing will be conducted on the resolutions proposed by Councilors Catalino Alisbo, Celia Flor and [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (visayandailystar.com)
The 4th BacoLaodiat Festival in Bacolod City opened yesterday with the blessing of the Chopsticks Alley along Narra and Tindalo Avenues at the Capitol Shopping Center by Fr. Noli Que and Fr. June Earl Salugsugan, of the Queen of Peace Parish.
Marivic Rio, event coordinator, said diners at the Chopsticks Alley will [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (visayandailystar.com)
The contractor of the flyover project in Bacolod City is now processing their permit to conduct soil boring test along Lacson Street, Bacolod City, from the Office of the Building Official, OBO head engineer Teresita Guadalupe said yesterday. 
The soil boring test conducted along Lacson Street for the flyover project stopped Friday [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (visayandailystar.com)
Bacolod City administrator Roger Balo yesterday said they are preparing to submit to the Central Negros Electric Cooperative the service electric contract entered into by the city and the power firm for the installation of electrical connection to the Bacolod City Government Center.
The contract, which was ratified by the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
Director Roberto Montelibano of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative board yesterday said he and other officials were not aware that an actual and physical disconnection to the Bacolod City government offices was effected by the power firm Thursday.
Montelibano said he, together with CENECO directors Luis Cuenca and Edward Gasambelo, were waiting for [...]

The structure of The Ruins is of Italianate architecture with neo-Romanesque columns, having a very close semblance to the facade of Carnegie Hall in New York City. In New England, they often were homes to ship’s captains. A belvedere, facing west, affords a beautiful view of the sunset in a glassed-in sunroom with bay windows.The [...]

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The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said yesterday that it is preparing for the possible proliferation of narcotics in two festivals in Negros Occidental this month.
PO2 Cirilo Baluma Jr., PDEA provincial officer-in-charge, said they are preparing for the Dinagsa Festival in Cadiz City and the Sinulog Festival in Kabankalan City, this month.
Baluma said they [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
“Not intentional”.
That was what the Central Negros Electric Cooperative said amid accusations from the public, especially in areas that suffered blackouts for several hours in Bacolod City Friday
CENECO vice president and acting manager Erlo Sajo said at a press conference yesterday that power trip-offs happen almost everyday. On other days, he [...]

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Twenty candidates will join the Search for Hara Sang Negros 2008 that will highlight the 33rd Sinulog celebration of Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, on Jan. 12 to 18, a Kabankalan press release said.
The candidates had their pictorials at the public plaza, St. Francis Xavier cathedral, Zaycoland Resort and the municipal hall. They had also a [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
Power was restored at City Hall and  other areas in Bacolod after the city government and the Central Negros Electric Cooperative arrived at a compromise agreement during a closed-door meeting at the Bishop’s House last night.
The agreement signed by the officials of the city led by Mayor Evelio Leonardia, CENECO led by [...]

Kabankalan’s showcase in the array of festivals in Negros Occidental. Sinulog transforms the third Sunday of January of every year into a day of riotous revelry as dancers painted in black soot stamp to the wild beating of drums.

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BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
The Central Negros Electric Cooperative disconnected the power connection of the Bacolod City Hall, new government center, Libertad Market and other government offices early yesterday morning citing the city’s failure to pay its accounts with the power firm.
As a result, the Bacolod City government padlocked the administrative building of CENECO after [...]

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An ordinance requiring the full disclosure of entities receiving public funds from Bacolod City through a single searchable website is being proposed before the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
The measure, proposed by Councilors Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Dindo Ramos, Wilson Gamboa Jr., Catalino Alisbo, and Celia Matea Flor, aims to strengthen the transparency and accountability in the spending of public [...]

BY NANETTE GUADALQUIVER (www.visayandailystar.com)
Negros Occidental Gov. Isidro Zayco yesterday said he has asked the Capitol department heads to submit their programs for 2009 so he can identify the projects to be prioritized this year.
“We need to know where the P194 million fund for development programs will go,” he said after meeting with the department heads [...]

 BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
The Bacolod City government is reconvening its local economic council to map out contingency plans to cushion the impact of the international economic recession.
Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia yesterday said “We will try to list down the possible effects of the global economic recession on us.” He said this has affected even [...]

The Mariano Ramos Ancestral House is the ancestral home of the late Don Mariano Ramos, first appointed Presidente Municipal of Bacolod City, Philippines. It was built in the 1930s and its architecture is a combination of Castilian and Tuscan traces. It comprises three storeys including the tower room, known as the mirador.

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