2 senators defend creation of Negros Island Region
BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — Two senators who authored the law that created the Negros Island Region (NIR) maintained it is both “constitutional and implementable.” Senators Juan Miguel Zubiri and JV Ejercito, principal authors of Republic Act No. 12000 or the NIR Act that unified the provinces of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental and Siquijor,