BACOLOD CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) chief, backed the five-minute response time for police assistance set by the national headquarters. In a media interview on Monday, June 16, at the Bacolod City Police Office, Ibay said that...
MANAPLA, Negros Occidental – This municipality is looking at earning P10 million in annual revenue from the Manapla Port Stevedoring and Arrastre (MPSA) in Barangay Punta Salong that officially starts operations by June 28. Mayor Manuel Escalante III said this is on top of the livelihood...
BACOLOD CITY – A 38-year-old driver wanted for three counts of estafa in Quezon, Bukidnon, was arrested by police in Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, June 14, three days after he came home to his wife’s province. The suspect, a resident of Bulacan, was served with...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Education (DepEd) in Negros Occidental has projected 325,500 students in 576 public schools in the province this school year, an increase of 1,500 enrollees, surpassing last year’s record of 324,000. Ian Arnold Arnaez, spokesperson for the Negros Occidental...
BACOLOD CITY – A 25-year-old choreographer was killed and his female companion was injured after their motorcycle crashed into an 18-wheel truck in Hacienda Guicay, Barangay Purisima, Manapla, Negros Occidental on Friday the 13th. The fatality was identified as Rolando, a resident of Cadiz City,...
BACOLOD CITY – More than 500 personnel of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office will be deployed in the province to ensure the safety of students during class opening on June 16. Police Capt. Judesses Catalogo, spokesperson of the Negros Occidental police, said that police assistance...
BACOLOD CITY – Sixty-nine persons were apprehended for violating the election gun ban in Negros Island from Jan. 12 to June 11. The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office caught 41, followed by Bacolod City Police Office with 15, and Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office with 13. Police...
BACOLOD CITY – More than 2,000 evacuees from five barangays in La Castellana, Negros Occidental will be relocated from school-evacuation centers to areas designated as safe sites to continue their temporary stay amid the continuing threat of Kanlaon Volcano. The municipal government has started...
BACOLOD CITY – The Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections on Dec. 1 are pushing through, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said here. “It’s a go,” Garcia said, expressing confidence that Congress will soon finalize the bill affirming the Dec. 1 election...
BACOLOD CITY – The provincial government of Negros Occidental will continue working directly with the Federation of Irrigators’ Association of Central Negros-Bago River Irrigation System (FIACN-BRIS) in implementing the P20 per kilo rice program of the national government in the province. ...
BACOLOD CITY – A newborn baby girl was found abandoned in a passenger jeepney in Barangay Zone 8, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, June 8. She was reported on Monday morning, June 9, to the police who referred the case to the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
The municipal government of Toboso in Negros Occidental is offering a P10,000 cash reward to individuals who can arrest a person disrupting the peace and order during a fiesta in the town. Councilor now Mayor-elect Richard Jaojoco said that this initiative is aimed at preventing any commotion...
