(Image from Masskara Festival Facebook page) BACOLOD CITY - Six sites will be set up for the various events of this city's world-renowned Masskara Festival, which returns after two years on Oct. 1 to 23. As of Wednesday, identified as the main festival sites are Lacson Street, Bacolod Public Plaza, and the Bacolod City Government Center while extension sites include the Baywalk at the Reclamation Area, Upper East, and Pana-ad Park and Stadium. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez had earlier said the city aims to bring in some 200,000 visitors during the three-week festival, which is divided also into three parts. "This will allow visitors to choose the events and activities they want to attend," he added. According to organizers from the Bacolod Yuhum Foundation led by festival director Pinky Mirano-Ocampo, the first week will feature the Masskara Sports Olympics from Oct. 1 to 8; second week, the Masskara Trade Fair, from Oct. 10 to 16; and the third week, the Masskara cultur
BACOLOD CITY – The City Legal Office (CLO) has given tenants of Manokan Country here until end of September to pay their delinquent accounts that have reached P8.6 million.
A TEAM from the city government of Bacolod, assisted by the police, serves final notices to 17 tenants of Manokan Country w
TACLOBAN CITY Twenty-six persons were rounded up by the police in Barangay 37, Reclamation Area here for alleged illegal activities.
Four men were arrested in a buy bust operation in a drug den around 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 9.
A policeman who acted as poseur was able to buy P5,000