Negros Oriental governor gets overwhelming win
By Alex Rey PalAfter a two-year on-the-job training, performing a job that he did not aspire for in 2010, Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo obtained an overwhelming mandate in last Monday’s elections.
After a two-year on-the-job training, performing a job that he did not aspire for in 2010, Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo obtained an overwhelming mandate in last Monday’s elections.
After two years of “on-the-job training,” performing a job that he did not aspire for in the first place in 2010, Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo obtained an overwhelming mandate in last Monday’s elections.
Cries resonated with the melodies as people sang in the valley where a small village used to be in La Libertad town in Negros Oriental.
For more than a year, Cristy Aba and her family have been living inside a tent in a school compound in Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental. Their house was destroyed on Feb. 6, 2012, when a devastating 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook seven towns and two cities in the province.
THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Negros Oriental has secured a P500,000 funding for the construction of infirmary facilities in the province. Due to the increase of tuberculosis cases in district jails, provincial jail administrator Rosalina Malahay said her agency was able to secure funding from the Department of Health (DOH) to [...]
THE chicken pork lemon grass recipe of Mabinay town in Negros Oriental was declared first prize winner in the seventh “Buglasan Lutong Garbo” grand cook fest on Oct. 13 at the Sidlakan Negros Village in Dumaguete City. First placer chef Tony Lacorte Ehera presented his menu with delectable and creative way of cooking. Ehera received [...]
A total of 33,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) were distributed to the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the Central Visayas provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental and Siquijor to replace their incandescent bulbs. The Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) for the initiative that [...]
THE Negros Oriental Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO) will hold activities in line with its annual NegOrganic farm family agri-fair on Oct. 10 and 11 at the Provincial Nursery Compound in Dumaguete City. This year’s agri-fair theme is “Organic Agriculture: Gearing Towards Sustainable Growth in Negros Oriental.” Gov. Roel Degamo will open the affair. The two-day [...]
Members of the Liberal Party in Negros Oriental were the first to file their Certificates of Candidacy (COC) at the Provincial Comelec office in Negros Oriental Monday morning. Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichiong came in with her running mate Dr. Edward Mark Macias and their supporters. Limkaichiong, a first- term lawmaker, decided to run for governor after [...]
Local officials of Negros Oriental attended the gender sensitivity training of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) recently in Dumaguete City. During the training, local officials gave their nod for the recall of their five percent annual budget allocation for gender and development (GAD) activities. These local government [...]
THE Negros Oriental Provincial Agriculture office is urging farmers in the province to adopt organic farming to boost the supply of chemical-free vegetables.
Another police chief in Negros Oriental was sacked Tuesday for failing to stop the “swertres” illegal numbers game in his city, bringing to four the number of chiefs-of-police relieved in that province in the past two weeks.
The police chiefs of three municipalities in Negros Oriental have been sacked for failing to stop the proliferation of the illegal numbers game Swertres in their areas, Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo said Thursday.
