April 2010

Filipino channel to feature Bacolod

Published on: 30th April, 2010

* MAY 3 is a holiday.
* COURTESY of President GMA’s holiday economics calendar.
* THERE are free summer workshops at Mt. Carmel Kinder School. Call Tel. No. 434-1862 if you are interested.
* THE Provincial Environment Management Office has launched a theme and logo competition for the 18th Environment Week.
* THE competition is open to both students [...]

Jocelle…you, too?

Published on: 30th April, 2010

BACOLOD CITY, April 29, 2010, Philippine Time – * CONGRESSIONAL bet Cano Tan called for a press conference to inform the media (and the people of Bacolod) that his wife, Nita, had received two calls from an anonymous male caller last Monday.
* ACCORDING to Cano, the caller asked that he withdraw from the congressional race [...]

Bacolod Boys Home is 50

Published on: 29th April, 2010

* TWO  labor representatives (Wennie Sancho and  Hernani Braza) walked out of a stakeholders forum organized by the National Wages and Productivity Commission in Cebu.
* THE labor sector had been asking for a P50 wage hike in Western Visayas but the management sector could only offer a P10-hike in return.
* USLS will present “Rizal is [...]

Vladi sings a different tune

Published on: 29th April, 2010

BACOLOD CITY, April 28, 2010, Philippine Time – * MAYORALTY bet Vladi Gonzales says that he is for presidential bet Noynoy Aquino, after all.
* THAT’S surprising.
* WASN’T it a few weeks ago only that Vladi said that he was for Erap Estrada who he considers a very close family friend?
* VLADI also said that he [...]

Kiddie workshops at Robinson’s

Published on: 28th April, 2010

* THERE are still no arrest warrants for the suspects in the killing
of former Pulupandan Mayor Lying Mondia.
* A former CAFGU who killed a grocery helper was himself later found
dead in Barangay 1.
* AT Robinsons Place (for kids only). Hip Hop Dance Lessons (starting
on April 26, 2:30-4:30pm), Tae Kwon Do (starting on April 27,
10am-12noon). Pizza [...]

Freddie affirms commitment to Mar

Published on: 28th April, 2010

BACOLOD CITY, April 27, 2010, Philippine Time – * THE Ombudsman
dismissed another case against Mayor Bing and the other city
officials.
* THE case asked for a preventive suspension of Bing and his officials
relative to the sanitary landfill project.
* THIS was a case filed “by a woman and a dismissed city government
employee”, as the Leonardia family’s paper [...]

Donate used/unused books

Published on: 27th April, 2010

* A Lakbayan starts today from both the northern point (Escalante
City) and southern point (Kabankalan City) of Negros Occidental.
* THIS will culminate in a rally in Bacolod City of progressive
partylist groups AnakPawis, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Kabataan, Alliance
of Concerned Teachers, Katribu and Akapbata.
* THE rally is, in part, a show of support for the senatorial bid [...]

Photos say a thousand words

Published on: 27th April, 2010

BACOLOD CITY, April 26, 2010, Philippine – * YES, dearie.
* PHOTOS say a thousand words.
* IF this assertion isn’t so, a lawyer would not have been asked to
issue a certification that a photo is not a fakery.
* THE lawyer allegedly certified that the photo showing Manny raising
Newks’ hand is genuine.
* BING’S camp has Manny’s childhood [...]

New City High alumni officers

Published on: 26th April, 2010

* SENIOR Police Officer Dante Escorpion, head of the city police vice control section, has been transferred to Camp Delgado in Iloilo.
* DANTE has an administrative case filed against him.
* HE was caught with a gun tucked in his waistband while attending a court hearing insilay City.
* A former nurse’s house in Barangay Sum-ag was [...]

Bing’s playing coy or what?

Published on: 26th April, 2010

BACOLOD CITY, April 25, 2010, Philippine Time – * HAS anyone noticed…
* THAT presidential candidates have come and gone..and held their rallies in Bacolod…
* AND yet, Mayor Bing has not gone up the stage with any of these candidates to announce his support?
* “BAKA malipasan ka na ng panahon, Bing…”
* IS he playing coy or [...]

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