August 20, 2025 - Negros Now Daily

NBI asked to investigate P306-M flood control projects in San Carlos

August 20, 2025

San Carlos City Mayor Renato Gustilo has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the P306-million flood control projects supposedly implemented in the northern Negros city by three contractors from northern Luzon.

P17.5-M shabu seized in NIR

August 20, 2025

The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region confiscated P17.5 million worth of suspected shabu in week-long operations from Aug. 11 to 17.

Inauguration today of 2-storey CLMMRH Cancer Care Center

August 20, 2025

The two-storey Cancer Care Center will be inaugurated this morning, Aug. 20, at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) grounds in Bacolod City, with Department of Health officials as guests of honor.

Mayoral bet nabbed for syndicated estafa

August 20, 2025

A resident of Escalante City, Negros Occidental, who previously ran for mayor, is facing two counts of violation of Presidential Decree 1689 for syndicated estafa.

Capitol mulls acquiring new lot for CPSU-Moises Padilla campus

August 20, 2025

The Negros Occidental provincial government has indicated its willingness to buy another property to be the new site of the Central Philippines State University-Moises Padilla satellite campus.

15 minors rescued in Bacolod City

August 20, 2025

A joint operation conducted by the Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD)-Anti Mendicancy Team, in collaboration with Bacolod Police Station 1, has resulted in the rescue of 15 minors from the city streets since last week.

DAR-NegOr hits 96% of 130K hectares for land distribution

August 20, 2025

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Oriental has distributed some 96 percent of government land to beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

Pag-IBIG Fund offers special 3% housing loan rate for first 10 years

August 20, 2025

Pag-IBIG Fund will grant a special three percent housing loan rate for the first 10 years of the loan term, double the standard five years for the subsidized rate, to the first 30,000 eligible borrowers under the Expanded Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino (Expanded 4PH) Program.

Negros Power rate increase by P.13/kwh

August 20, 2025

Consumers in Negros Occidental will see only a slight adjustment in their power bills this month as Negros Power announced an average residential electricity rate of P11.50 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for August 2025, up by P0.13 per kWh from July’s P11.37 per kWh.

Bago opens emergency night clinic in Brgy. Ma-ao

August 20, 2025

The newly-opened Emergency Night Clinic at Barangay Ma-ao Health Station in Bago City, which will cater to emergency patients in Ma-ao and other upland villages, is anchored on Mayor Mayette Javellana-Yao’s Asenso Bago local governance framework.

NBI asked to investigate P306-M flood control projects in San Carlos

P17.5-M shabu seized in NIR

Inauguration today of 2-storey CLMMRH Cancer Care Center

Mayoral bet nabbed for syndicated estafa

Capitol mulls acquiring new lot for CPSU-Moises Padilla campus

15 minors rescued in Bacolod City

DAR-NegOr hits 96% of 130K hectares for land distribution

Pag-IBIG Fund offers special 3% housing loan rate for first 10 years

Negros Power rate increase by P.13/kwh

Bago opens emergency night clinic in Brgy. Ma-ao

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