This year’s Negros Oriental Buglasan Festival of Festivals will have three venues for the 87 events calendared on a two-week celebration in October.  Negros Oriental Tourism Council (NOTC) Chair Nick Elman said the main events will be spread out at Freedom Park, Sidlakang Negros Village and Rizal Boulevard to decongest the huge crowd. 

A touch of Fiesta sa Nayon, this year’s seventh Buglasan Lutong Garbo cook fest is set to be held at Sidlakang Negros Village at 2 p.m. on October 13.  Over P70,000 is up for grabs for the local culinary talents who will join the indigenous cooking competition among the participants from various local government units (LGU) continue reading : NegOr’s Buglasan Lutong Garbo sets for the grand cook match

The show must go on. Gov. Roel Degamo says that the province is determined to push through with the Buglasan Festival showdown, one of the main activities of the Buglasan Festival of Festivals, on October 12-21. While no town or city had confirmed their participation last week, there were indications that six or seven local continue reading : NegOr readies for Buglasan Festival

The provincial government last week turned over four completed infrastructure projects in Basay town.  A statement from Capitol said the projects are among the infrastructure programs that were given a budget of P3.3 million as part of Basay’s share from last year’s 20 percent economic development fund.  In a ceremony, Gov. Roel Degamo symbolically turned continue reading : NegOr turns over 5 completed infra projects in Basay town

Provincial Interior and Local Government Operations Officers are calling for sobriety, amid the vociferous word war among the various political factions after the results of the Local Government Performance Management System for 2011 revealed that Negros Oriental lost its 7th place ranking in 2010 falling by 50 notches down to rank 57 among the 79 provinces of continue reading : Vociferous word war: on performance ratings

About 25 families residing at the riverbanks of Siaton and Canaway in Siaton town, Negros Oriental, were evacuated Monday night because of flashfloods caused by torrential rains. Angelo Tiongson of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said the families were evacuated when the rivers overflowed and their houses were flooded.

A total of 25 families living along Canaway River in Brgy. 3, Siaton town were evacuated last night due to flooding.  The local government of Siaton evacuated the families after the river’s water level rose and overflowed due to the rains brought by Typhoon Lawin, Capitol Information Officer Adrian Sedillo said. 

Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo said the proposed resolution of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, seeking to withdraw the earlier authority it gave him to apply for a P350 million loan with the Development Bank of the Philippines, is irregular.

The provincial government here led the construction of a one-unit, two-classroom school building at the Gihulngan National High School in Guihulngan City.  The school building is worth P1.4 million with the funds taken from the provincial government’s Special Education Fund, said Capitol Information Officer Adrian Sedillo. 

Organizers of this year’s Buglasan Festival of Festivals are eyeing a total of P7.1 million as the collective budget for this year’s festival.  Said amount is sourced from the province’s annual regular Buglasan budget and festival sponsors. Gov. Roel Degamo in a press conference said the province’s annual regular budget for Buglasan Festival is at continue reading : NegOr targets P7.1 M for Buglasan Festival 2012