The long wait is over for the applicants to the 2021 DOST-SEI S&T Undergraduate Scholarships as the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) announces today the names of 8,067 qualifiers to the scholarship program. The DOST-SEI did not conduct the national scholarship qualifying examination in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Archives for August 2021
Bacolod to hold ‘Bigjab Weekend’ August 28-29
Bacolod City will hold a “Bigjab Weekend” at the SMX Convention Center at SM City and Ayala Malls Capitol Central this Saturday and Sunday [August 28 and 29] The “Bigjab Weekend” aims to prioritize city residents belonging to A1 to A5 categories especially those who are unable to go to the vaccination sites during office […]
DOH confirms 2 Delta cases in Bacolod City
The Department of Health confirms that two city residents turned out positive for the Delta variant as indicated by the result of the genome sequencing conducted by the Philippine Genome Center. The first case of Delta variant positive is a 71-year-old male resident of Barangay Banago. He is said to be asymptomatic, and was swabbed […]
Bacolod City launched mobile vaccination
There is no letup in Bacolod City’s vaccination efforts. Mayor Evelio “Bing” Leonardia led the launching ceremony of Bacolod City’s mobile vaccination drive. Dubbed as “VAX-i”, the mobile drive aims to make vaccination more accessible to the public. According to Leonardia, Vax-i is part of his administration’s commitment to inoculate as many Bacolodnons as possible, […]
Olympic Silver Medalist Nesthy Petecio to receive P10-M Suntrust Condo
Real estate tycoon Dr. Andrew L. Tan is giving the country’s first silver medalist in the women’s Olympics boxing featherweight division, Nesthy Petecio, a P10-million residential condominium unit in ONE LAKESHORE DRIVE inside the 11.2-hectare Davao Park District in Lanang, Davao City. The gift, which is a fully-furnished unit, will be in a live-work-play township […]