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A female employee of a motorcycle trading firm, identified as Janiclear Eustaquio Cahilig, 31, was found dead in a grassy area of Barangay Palangoy, Binangonan, Rizal on Tuesday morning, February 13.

In a ceremony held at the Bacolod City Government Center on Saturday, Febrauary 10, retail tycoon Lucio Co was bestowed with the title of honorary mayor for the day and adopted son of Bacolod City by the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

The tremor occurred at 9:06 PM Philippine Standard Time (PST) with an epicenter located 020 kilometers south 31° east of Murcia, Negros Occidental.

Nearly half a million tourists and spectators flocked to the city for the two-week celebration, injecting a staggering P700 million into the local economy, according to Mayor Salvador Escalante.

The blaze, which started around 1:18 PM, engulfed two buildings and a house belonging to the Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD). Two additional houses sustained damage in the inferno.

The Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) is implementing a scheduled power interruption in Bacolod City on January 13 and 14, 2024 to conduct vital maintenance activities on its power distribution lines.

This year’s festival is poised to be the grandest so far, with the main festival site returning to the Lacson Tourism Strip, starting at 6th Street up to 14th St.

At least three firms have indicated that they are interested in bidding for the proposed P1.2 billion Negros Occidental Bulk Water Supply Project (NBWSP) through a PPP scheme.

Residents of Negros Occidental are facing rotational brownouts after a grid disturbance in the Western Visayas region that caused power fluctuations earlier today, January 2.