BACOLOD CITY -- A total of P250,000 worth of cash and educational assistance were alloted by the local government of Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental to at least 25 members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who earlier surrendered to the Philippine Army’s 94th Infantry Battalion (IB). The 25...
BACOLOD CITY - A pedicab driver was arrested after he allegedly yielded 21 grams of shabu worth P142,800 during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Rizal, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Nov. 12. A police operative conducts the inventory of the P142,800 worth of suspected shabu seized from...
BACOLOD CITY – A 41-year-old barber who was released from prison a few months ago was gunned down by a man on a motorcycle in Barangay Estefania here on Friday, Nov. 11. POLICE respond to a shooting incident in Barangay Estefania, Bacolod City in which a barber was killed on Friday, Nov. 11....
BACOLOD CITY – Three persons were killed while 36 others were injured after an overloaded passenger jeepney crashed into a tree in Sitio Proper, Barangay Malatas, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Friday, Nov. 11. THREE persons were killed while 36 others were injured when an overloaded passenger...
BACOLOD CITY -- A four-year old girl died after she drowned in a river in Barangay San Agustin, Isabela, Negros Occidental on Thursday, Nov. 10. The name of the victim was withheld. Capt. Joseph Partidas, Isabela police chief, said the victim went to the river with her sibling to swim. However, her...
BACOLOD CITY -- Qualified and deserving students in Negros Occidental may avail of the ‘Study Now, Pay Later’ system through the Australia Scholarship Program. Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson (seated center) and Sean Mahoney (seated left), chief executive officer of International College of...
BACOLOD CITY -- A drug pusher who once surrendered and even underwent rehabilitation during the heat of the last administration’s Oplan Tokhang is back in jail. Michael Bermejo, 34, a resident of Barangay Nanca here, was arrested after the police operatives found 60 grams of shabu worth P408,000...
BACOLOD CITY – Four persons, including two teenagers, were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 2 here on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Two suspects were identified as Reeben Omega, 20, and Joemarie Magbanua, 22, both residents of Barangay 2. Police withheld the names of the two other suspects...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released P80,775,550 in social pension to 53,851 senior citizens in Negros Occidental in the past nine months. Atty. May Rago-Castillo, public information officer of the DSWD-Western Visayas, said P4,654,500 was...
BACOLOD CITY - A man died after he was hit by a stray bullet, while another was wounded in a shooting incident that happened in a wake in Barangay Japitan, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Sunday. A police officer checks the injury of a man, who died after suffering a gunshot wound from a stray...
BACOLOD CITY – A one-day-old baby boy was buried alive by his parents in a public cemetery in Pulupandan, Negros Occidental Sunday, Aug. 21. A CARETAKER shows to a police officer the tomb where a baby boy was buried alive by his parents in a public cemetery in Pulupandan, Negros Occidental...
BACOLOD CITY – Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Negros Occidental arrested a 48-year-old suspected drug pusher in Manapla, Negros Occidental Saturday, Aug. 20. A 48-year-old suspected drug pusher was arrested and P84,000 worth of shabu was seized from him in a buy-bust...
