BACOLOD CITY – The 70-year-old ancestral home of former Mayor now Councilor Richard Jaojoco in Purok Malinawon, Barangay Poblacion, Toboso, Negros Occidental was destroyed by a fire on Friday, Feb. 21. THE ancestral home of former Mayor now Councilor Richard Jaojoco was destroyed in a fire...
BACOLOD CITY – Four-thousand households in seven barangays in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental have no water after the intake tank of a treatment facility in Sitio Medina, Barangay Rizal. San Carlos City was damaged by a flashflood due to heavy rain on Sunday, Feb. 23. FLASHFLOOD damaged...
BACOLOD CITY – Twenty-two families displaced by the Dec. 9, 2024 eruption of Kanlaon Volcano are set to move to the modernized bahay kubo or nipa hut in Barangay Napoles, Bago City, Negros Occidental next month. THE Bago City government in Negros Occidental opened the Payag sang Kapag-on...
BACOLOD CITY – The Supreme Court decision allowing commercial fishing vessels within the 15-kilometer municipal waters could impact the livelihoods of more than 45,000 marginalized fishing communities in Negros Occidental, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said. Lacson stated that the...
BACOLOD CITY – The municipal government of Moises Padilla in Negros Occidental announced the full resumption on Monday, Feb. 24, of face-to-face classes in elementary and high school suspended due to Kanlaon Volcano. Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo issued Executive Order No. 204 on Feb. 20...
Reelectionist Senator Francis Tolentino is pushing for amendments to the Philippine Fisheries Code (RA 8550) to restore protection for marginal fisherfolk, including the blue crab producers of Negros Occidental, in the country's municipal waters. He made the remark in response to a question...
BACOLOD CITY – Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old college student in Barangay Magallon Cadre, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental as a possible self-accident rather than the initial hit-and-run incident. READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/2/20/college-student-killed-in-hit-and-run...
Evacuees in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, are worried about how they will rebuild their lives when Kanlaon Volcano calms down. PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. addresses Kanlaon Volcano evacuees at the La Carlota City South Elementary School II during his visit to La Carlota City,...
Makati City Mayor Abby Binay (Mayor Binay's office) DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental--Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial candidate Makati City Mayor Abby Binay has suggested a simple way to help out sugar farmers here in the...
BACOLOD CITY - A 34-year-old New People’s Army rebel wanted for murder was arrested by the police in Barangay Bandila, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Lt. Dan Carlo Samoza, civil military officer of the Army 79th Infantry Battalion, identified the suspect as Wil, 34, a...
BACOLOD CITY – A third year college student was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Barangay Magallon Cadre, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Feb. 19. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Feb. 20, the Central Philippines State University (CPSU)-Moises Padilla Campus confirmed the...
BACOLOD CITY – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Western Visayas is working closely with the municipal government of La Castellana in Negros Occidental to resolve concerns about evacuation sites for residents to be affected by a major eruption of Kanlaon Volcano. FERNANDEZ (Glazyl Masculino)...
