BACOLOD CITY – This city logged the first firecracker-related injury this year on Christmas Eve. The victim was an 11-year-old boy here based on the record of the City Health Office (CHO). Dr. Grace Tan, head of the Environment Sanitation Division of the CHO, said the victim is a...
BACOLOD CITY – Thirty-nine families or 117 individuals lost their homes in fire in a residential area on Mabini-Luzuriaga St., Purok Paghidaet, Barangay 29, this city, on Tuesday, December 26. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod said that seven houses were destroyed and six...
BACOLOD CITY – A motorcycle rider died after he was run over by a garbage truck on Araneta Ave. in Barangay Tangub here on Christmas Eve. A 29-year-old motorcycle rider died in a road accident in Bacolod City on Christmas Eve. (Police Station 8 photo) Police identified the victim as Jessie...
BACOLOD CITY – A fire razed six houses in Purok Bolinao, Barangay 1 here on Saturday, December 23. FIREMEN battle a blaze in a residential fire in Barangay 1, Bacolod City on Saturday, December 23. (Photo courtesy of Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade) According to the Bureau of Fire Protection...
BACOLOD CITY – Transport groups here and in the province of Negros Occidental called on the government to extend the December 31 deadline for the consolidation of public utility vehicle (PUV) operators. Rudy Catedral, president of the Bacolod Alliance for Commuters Operators and Drivers (Bacod),...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office unveiled its third standard Philippine National Station building here on Thursday, December 21. The three-story building in a 500-square meter lot donated by businessman Roy Villa in Barangay Felisa was built for P10 million and funded by the Office...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez has urged the people to avail of the online services of the city government after it opened the Bacolod Express Service Office (BESO) at the Ayala Malls Capitol Central on Monday, December 18. BACOLOD City officials headed by Mayor Alfredo...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Western Visayas activated its ninth fire sub-station here on Monday, December 18. THE Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Western Visayas activates the Alijis fire sub-station in Bacolod City on Monday, December 18. (Photo courtesy of BFP-Bacolod)...
BACOLOD CITY – Close to 1,000 passengers were stranded in this city and various ports in Negros Occidental as sea trips were suspended on Monday, December 18, due to tropical depression “Kabayan.” The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)-Northern Negros Occidental said 968 travelers were stranded –...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized 232 grams of suspected shabu worth P1,577,600 from a drug pusher and his runner in a buy-bust operation in Purok Sigay, Barangay 2, this city, on Friday, December 15. A SUSPECTED drug pusher and his 18-year-old runner was arrested in a buy-bust operation in...
BACOLOD CITY – The city council has approved this city's P3.6-billion budget in 2024. The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) unanimously approved the annual expenditure during their regular session on Wednesday, December 13. Councilor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, chairperson of the Committee on Appropriation...
BACOLOD CITY – Three temporary warehouses were razed by fire, causing P14-million worth of damage to property, in Upper East Megaworld, Barangay 41, this city, on Wednesday, December 13. THE Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) cordons the area where three makeshift warehouses were razed by a fire in...
