Silay, Philippines News

BACOLOD City Mayor-elect Monico Puentevella paid a courtesy visit to Governor Alfredo Maranon Jr. in his office at Capitol on Monday to share notes on what they can do together to bring greater good for Bacolod and the province of Negros Occidental.

FOUR more rebel returnees received Wednesday a total of P200,000 from the government in line with the "Guns for Peace" program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines .

FOR her family and friends, she is Dory Gamboa. For us, volunteer social workers of BINHI-Chito Foundation, she is Sr. Michelle, a Good Shepherd sister.

WHAT better way to kick-off GMA Network's newest morning soap With A Smile bannered by the on-screen love tandem of Mikael Daez and Andrea Torres than to bring it to Silay City -- Negros Occidental's "seat of arts, culture and heritage."

If we have our local pottery industry, Aklan has its own, too. Barangays Pahanocoy south of Bacolod and Guinahalaran in Silay are both famous for their clay products.

"PAGKAMADINALAG-ON: Bugal sang Silaynon!" is the theme of Silay City's 56th Charter Anniversary.

NOW that the election is over, Governor Alfredo Maranon Jr. wants everybody to get back to work and for the province to have political peace.

SOROPTIMIST International of the Philippines Region held its 24th mid-biennial conference starting Thursday until June 1, 2013 at L' Fisher hotel in Bacolod City.

NEGROS: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Soroptimist International of the Philippines Region Inc.

YESTERDAY: 'Buglas' was the ancient name of Negros that literally means 'torn from'. Our island was torn from Cebu and Panay during a geological upheaval 50,000 years ago.

THE Negros staff manning the Negros Pavilion at the International Food Exhibition -Philippines are in an intense mood while seriously attending to the investors who are interested in Negros products.

FORMER Tourism Secretary Mina Gabor, currently the president of the Automobile Association of the Philippines , said that Negros Occidental has great potentials for drive and organic tourism that could attract both national and International tourists.