April 26, 2025 - Negros Now Daily

Bacolod gets DOTr support on PUV modernization plan

April 26, 2025

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) will form a team that will assist Bacolod City in executing its local Comprehensive Public Transport Modernization Plan. Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon gave the commitment

1,735 cops to secure May polls in NegOcc

April 26, 2025

The Philippine National Police (PNP) is utilizing 1,735 personnel for election duties in Negros Occidental for the May 12 national and local elections.

393 jail facilities designated as special polling precincts for PDLs

April 26, 2025

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said April 25 that 393 jail facilities across the country, including 78 in Western Visayas, have been designated by the Commission on Elections as special polling precincts (SPPs) to enable eligible persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) to vote on May 12.

Nat’l Task Force Kanlaon created

April 26, 2025

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed Administrative Order No. 32 April 24, creating the National Task Force Kanlaon, to tackle volcanic threats and safeguard communities in Negros Island.

Absentee voting starts April 28

April 26, 2025

The local absentee voting (LAV) starts on April 28, with 1,880 voters, comprised mostly of police and military personnel in Negros Occidental, Provincial Election Supervisor Ian Lee Ananoria said on Friday (April 25).

P204M aid to Kanlaon-affected LGUs awaiting release: OCD

April 26, 2025

The additional financial aid asked by local government units affected by the continuous unrest of Mount Kanlaon in Negros is now “awaiting release,” the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said April 25.

Lacson supports P20 rice program

April 26, 2025

Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson on Friday (April 25) joined other Visayas governors in supporting the P20 Rice Program, which will be piloted in the Visayas.

Bacolod gets DOTr support on PUV modernization plan

1,735 cops to secure May polls in NegOcc

393 jail facilities designated as special polling precincts for PDLs

Nat’l Task Force Kanlaon created

Absentee voting starts April 28

P204M aid to Kanlaon-affected LGUs awaiting release: OCD

Lacson supports P20 rice program

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