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Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson lifted today, September 11, the mandatory use of face masks when in open spaces around the province of Negros Occidental. Lacson

The Inter-Agency Task Force against COVID-19 has recommended the optional wearing of facemask in non-crowded outdoor areas by end of this year, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said in a statement.

Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez, and Jose Rizalino “Jerry” Acuzar, secretary of Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), signed an MOU to formally acknowledge Yuhum Village, the housing project of the Benitez administration, at the Bacolod City Government Center, September 3.

Old jeepneys in Bacolod City will have only six months remaining to ply the city’s thoroughfares before being phased out.

The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) apprehended a total of 164 suspects facing arrest during its 24-Hour Simultaneous Focus Police Operations on implementation of warrant of arrest for the wanted persons on August 30, 2022.

A week after Malacanang announced that it had gained the commitment of large retailers to cut the prevailing retail price of sugar, Victorias Milling Company

Victorias Milling Company has pledged to help traders in the food manufacturing industries by making available 45,000 sacks at 50 kilos per sack bottler-grade sugar for soft drinks companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and RC Cola, Executive Secretary Victor Rodriguez said.

The Central Negros Electric Cooperative, Inc. announced today, August 18, that the average residential rate for the billing month of August 2022 is P15.4772/kWh, an increase of P1.2891/kwh, from last month’s rate of P14.1881/kwh.

Sugar leaders from around the country met with ​President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. yesterday, August 17, and recommended the need to import 150,000MT of sugar from the original planned of 300,000MT.

Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri, in a privilege speech Monday, August 15, 2022, urged the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to investigate the recently exposed irregularities at the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) and asked its high ranking officials to resign.