BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) is investigating the claim of a police staff sergeant that he accidentally shot his lover, a 42-year-old single mother, dead. The body of the victim – Kristine Joy Dignadice – was found in a sugarcane field in Barangay...
The government should provide economic subsidies, including long-term compensation, to around 3,000 fishers whose livelihoods have been badly affected by the ethanol spill in Bais City, Negros Oriental, progressive group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said....
BACOLOD CITY – Local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental suspended classes on all levels and work in government offices from Nov. 3 to 4 due to the threat of tropical cyclone “Tino.” These LGUs were Toboso, Moises Padilla, Binalbagan, Calatrava, E.B. Magalona, Don Salvador Benedicto,...
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Sunday, Nov. 2, that it was closely monitoring a massive environmental threat Negros Oriental after a wastewater spill from a collapsed containment lagoon in Bais City stained the local marine environment. Undersecretary...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Emergency Operations Center is preparing for tropical cyclone ‘’Tino.’’ Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, PDRRMC chairperson, issued a memorandum on Nov. 1 placing the PDRRMC under red alert, directing...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental third district Rep. Javier Miguel Benitez on Saturday asked the Philippine National Police and Department of Justice to thoroughly investigate the brutal killing of a 42-year-old single mother from Victorias City, Negros Occidental. “I am calling for a full and...
BACOLOD CITY – A police officer assigned to the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) surrendered on Saturday, Nov. 1, leading to the discovery of the body of a missing 42-year-old single mother in Barangay Don Jorge Araneta, Bago City, Negros Occidental. The suspect, with a rank of police staff...
DUMAGUETE CITY – The provincial government of Negros Oriental has suffered losses after an estimated 10,000 milkfish (bangus) fingerlings died from exposure to wastewater spillage in Bais City. Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO) chief Emmanuel Caduyac told the Philippine News Agency on Thursday...
BACOLOD CITY – Police are investigating the disappearance of a woman after her car was discovered abandoned with bloodstains in Sitio So-ol, Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The 42-year-old woman, a single mother, has a 10-year-old child, and a resident of...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office is investigating the encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army in Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental province on Oct. 28. The incident claimed the life of a six-year-old boy believed to have been hit...
BACOLOD CITY – An ethanol spill from the Universal Robina Corp. (URC) distillery plant in Bais City, Negros Oriental has affected 10 coastal barangays in the city and a portion of the neighboring town of Manjuyod. Bais City Mayor Luigi Marcel Goñi met representatives of URC on Wednesday, Oct....
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo has called on the New People’s Army (NPA) to surrender and pursue peace talks, following a gun battle between soldiers and communist rebels where a six-year-old boy was killed in Sitio Matal-i, Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla, Negros...
