Category — Negros Island

Long time ago Negros Island is known for its sugar industry, sugarcane fields from left to right, hacienderos on their feet manning the fields but as time passes by other developing country begins produce sugar at a cheaper price and the sugar industry slowly begins to drop as competition gets tough -not to mention sugar smugglers and high cost of fertilizers. [Read more →]

An exciting phenomena is going to happen tonight a lunar eclipse and a meteor shower. According to the PAGASA director Prisco Nilo, a partial lunar eclipse will start to take place at 6:16pm and the peak will be seen at 7:38pm the eclipse is expected to end at 10:21pm. The eclipse can bee seen by South East Asian Countries, including the Philippines; Most of the United States, some islands of the Pacific Ocean and Antartica. [Read more →]

caribbean waterpark and resotel

Waking up one morning and seeing the sky to be gloomy made me realize, soon summer will be over. The month of June has set in and again everyone will be busy preparing for school and getting ready for the rainy days.

However, I come to realize why not go and relax a bit with friends and family before indulging myself to another busy schedule? And so, I found myself wandering around the city ending up at a unique getaway in “The Caribbean”.

Who would imagine a place just at the heart of Bacolod, where you can swim, chill and at the same time cool down from a busy week? The Caribbean offers a wide range of amenities where kids and adults alike can enjoy all together. [Read more →]

Finally the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, Inc. release the brown out schedule, preparing ourselves to prioritize our task as an employee, businessman, and so on. CENECO plans to have the schedule to be a weekly basis, their explanation was for fairness on other consumers who fall on the peak hours of the day. The said brownout will still continue till June 23 of this year (oh my!) this is due to the preventive maintenance of Tongonan Geothermal Power Plant Unit 1.

The following are the schedule that have already been set last week and will end today. [Read more →]

The yearly Panaad Festival of Negros will have it’s opening this coming March 20, 2010 with the theme, “United in One Festival, One Negros Occidental.”

It will be participated in by the 13 cities and 19 towns and municipalities, each showcasing the best of what Negros Occidental is about. Here is the schedule of Activities lined up for this year’s Panaad Festival: [Read more →]