August 12, 2022 - Negros Now Daily

Tanduay Bacolod Rum Festival highlights arts, music

August 12, 2022

The Tanduay Bacolod Rum Festival formally opened this afternoon, Aug. 12, at the Art District in Mandalagan, highlighted by an art exhibition and jazz concert featuring the city’s leading artists.

Another civilian killed in Calatrava

August 12, 2022

Four armed men shot dead a civilian Friday in Sitio Huebesan, Brgy. Marcelo, Calatrava, Negros Occidental, five days after the killing of a livestock buyer in the same place, a military official said.

Slain rebel identified, claimed by his family

August 12, 2022

The cadaver of the New People’s Army combatant, who was killed Aug. 10 in an encounter with the 94th Infantry Battalion soldiers in Sitio Bulasot, Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, was claimed Friday by his family.

Groups laud Marcos for veto of sugar importation

August 12, 2022

The scrapping of Sugar Order No. 4 that allows the importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who is the concurrent Agriculture secretary, was hailed by the Asociacion de Agricultores de La Carlota y Pontevedra Inc. (AALCPI), the La Carlota Mill District Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LCMDMPC), and the United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED).