• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A minor and two others were found dead on Saturday in Sitio Buyong, Brgy. Cabia-an, Candoni, Negros Occidental. Two of the victims
The road roller burned by suspected NPA rebels in Brgy. Cabia-an, Candoni, Negros Occidental, being examined by police probers and Bureau of Fire and Protection personnel. PNP photo
FINANCIAL AID. Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson (center) turns over the symbolic check of PHP100,000 to members of the Gil Montilla Agrarian Reform Cooperative during the turn-over rites held in Kabankalan City on Thursday (Feb. 17, 2022). Four micro cooperatives in southern Negros affected by Typhoon Odette received financial assistance from the Cooperative Development Authority under the agency's Special Assistance for Recovery and Alleviation Program. (Photo courtesy of PIO Negros Occidental) BACOLOD CITY - The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) has granted a total of PHP350,000 financial assistance to four micro cooperatives in southern Negros Occidental affected by Typhoon Odette last December. The recipients received symbolic checks during the turn-over rites held at the covered court of Barangay 9 in Kabankalan City on Thursday led by Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and CDA Assistant Secretary Myrla Paradillo. Lacson expressed his appreciation to the CDA for