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“Kotong sang mga Traffic Enforcers”

Published on: 4th September, 2010

"Kotong sang mga Traffic Enforcers"  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, September 4, 2010, Philippine Time – * TRAFFIC enforcer assigned at the corner of Rizal-Gatuslao Streets are reportedly making a “killing” with one of the jeepney lines plying the Bata-Libertad route.
* THE story is that traffic enforcers there allow this particular jeepney line (said to be about 20 units in all) to wait [...]

Who’s next in the Capitol list?

Published on: 3rd September, 2010

Who's next in the Capitol list?  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, September 3, 2010, Philippine Time – * “SOMEONE is reportedly crying na naman sa Provincial  Capitol.”
* HE/SHE is next in line in the alleged “firing squad” that currently “weeds” out and re-assigns these personnel somewhere else at the Capitol.
* FIRST, it was Provincial Accountant Merle Fortu, although, she was suspended for [...]

Bacolod’s first night market

Published on: 2nd September, 2010

Bacolod's first night market  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, September 2, 2010, Philippine Time – * BACOLOD City will have its first Night Market soon.
* THE change in the management of the De La Rama Center LOCATED along Luzuriaga Street has apparently brought about this new venture.
* SPACES that have remained vacant and unoccupied for several  (as in  ‘several’) years are now [...]

Valid but not accurate

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Valid but not accurate  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, September 1, 2010, Philippine Time – * HEARD over the radio: “Ining mga taga N2NM, dapat ni sa ila…”
* “MAGBASA diyaryo adlaw-adlaw, magpamati sa radyo adlaw-adlaw kag mag lantaw TV adlaw-adlaw…”
* “PARA up-to-date man ang ila nahibal-an sining flyover project and re-districting sang siyudad…”
* “THEY are barking at the wrong tree.”
* N4NM stands [...]

‘Imported’ rebels

Published on: 31st August, 2010

'Imported' rebels  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, August 31, 2010, Philippine Time – * THE Negrenses for Nonoy Movement (N4NM) does not want 2 districts and the flyovers for Bacolod.
* SO, we are hearing gain from the organization.
* THE main reasons we get are that N4NM believes that funds for these projects should better be saved for now since the [...]

Felix still NOPPO director

Published on: 30th August, 2010

Felix still NOPPO director  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, August 30, 2010, Philippine Time – * AFTER all is said and done, Senior Superintendent Manuel Felix remains as provincial director of the Negros Occidental Provincial Office.
* “LAKAS ng kapit…”
* VOLUNTEERS of the “Save and Love Negros Rivers  Movement” cleaned up Minuluan River in Talisay.
*SLY, clever is how one can describe the NPA [...]

Obudsman cases are being dismissed

Published on: 29th August, 2010

Obudsman cases are being dismissed  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, August 29, 2010, Philippine Time – * COLUMNIST Albert Rile asks: “Was James Yap only a sperm donor?”
* ELIASEM Castillo is the new regional director of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Western Visayas.
* COMELEC says “We’re ready for barangay polls.”
* “HO-HUM.”
* ‘SURE kamo nga la na gamo sa pangita-ay mga ngalan, [...]

Voyeurs in our mist

Published on: 28th August, 2010

Voyeurs in our mist  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, August 28, 2010, Philippine Time – * HOW true is this that
Governor Freddie Maranon is moving Virgie Parreno, the long-time head
of Provincial Human Resource Management Office to Economic Enterpirse
Development…
* BECAUSE he wants to start “importing” people from his home city, Sagay, to the provincial government?
* AN 18 year-old boy was caught for taking [...]

Maluming nga ‘lamok’?

Published on: 27th August, 2010

Maluming nga 'lamok'?  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, August 27, 2010, Philippine Time – * HEARD over the radio: “Ay, ti, kaayo man kay Lucio Tan, no…?”
* “E libre ya kuno sa PAL ang mga victims kag familia pakadto sa Pilipinas kag pabalik sa Hong Kong…”
* “BASTA Chinese..libre…”
* “GALING naghambal man si Lucio nga…”
* “KON pretend, kamo bayad…”
* HEARD over the [...]

Barangay, SK elections pushes through

Published on: 26th August, 2010

Barangay, SK elections pushes through  | read this item

BACOLOD CITY, August 26, 2010, Philippine Time – * THE Barangay and SK
elections will push through as scheduled in October 25.
* THERE’S nothing we could do, say Negros Occidental congressmen.
* “PA gwa gid sila kwarta, eh, kon gusto nila manok-manok nila mag da-og.”
* A police trainee who was hospitalized because of hematoma in his
abdomen is [...]

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