BACOLOD CITY – The Office of Civil Defense-Negros Island Region is inspecting the proposed sites for permanent evacuation centers and resettlement areas for residents displaced by Kanlaon Volcano in four local government units in Negros Occidental. OCD-NIR Regional Director Donato Sermeno III...
BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has proclaimed the winning candidates in Negros Oriental. Gov. Manuel "Chaco" Sagarbarria was reelected and his running mate Siaton Mayor Fritz Diaz won. Sagarbarria became governor following the death of Gov. Carlo Jorge Joan Reyes in May...
BACOLOD CITY – All winning candidates in Negros Occidental in the May 12 elections have been proclaimed, Provincial Election Supervisor Ian Lee Ananoria said. Fourteen out of the 31 local government units in the province have new mayors. The remaining 17 local chief executives were reelected. ...
BACOLOD CITY – A 61-year-old laborer was fatally shot in a fiesta in Sitio Minasug-ang, Barangay Tabun-ac, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Thursday night, May 15. Police said the victim and a 25-year-old man, both residents of Barangay Bandila, Toboso, were attending the fiesta, when two men...
BACOLOD CITY – A 41-year-old man was shot and wounded by the police after he attempted to set fire to a fuel pump in a gasoline station in Barangay Santo Rosario, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Thursday, May 15. Police said the 25-year-old gasoline station manager requested for assistance...
BACOLOD CITY – Two neophyte mayors were elected in Negros Occidental on May 12 – Matthew Louis Malacon and Miguel Yulo of E.B. Magalona and Isabela municipalities, respectively. E.B. Magalona Mayor-elect Matthew Louis Malacon (center, top photo) and Isabela Mayor-elect Miguel Yulo (left, photo...
BACOLOD CITY – From being the first lady mayor, outgoing Rhummyla Nicor-Mangilimutan made history again as she was elected as the first woman vice mayor of La Castellana, Negros Occidental. After serving three terms as mayor since 2016, Mangilimutan is transitioning to her new role leading the...
BACOLOD CITY – Two teenage boys were killed after a 10-wheel truck loaded with sugarcane crashed into a computer shop in Purok 9, Barangay Minoyan, Murcia, Negros Occidental on Thursday, May 15. Police Major Sherwin Fernandez, Murcia police chief, said the victims were aged 14 and 15. TWO...
DUMAGUETE CITY – The cremated remains of four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) – two of them from Negros Oriental province – who died in the Myanmar earthquake last April, will be transported to the Philippines next week. EDSIL Jess and Alexis Gale Adalid. (Caesar Eduard A. Adalid FB) The...
BACOLOD CITY – Police have filed murder and frustrated murder complaints against a barangay captain and three others over a shooting incident where two people were killed and seven others were injured in Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Election Day. Police Lt. Col. Joem...
BACOLOD CITY – Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson was reelected for his third and final term in Negros Occidental. The Provincial Board of Canvassers led by Provincial Election Supervisor Ian Lee Ananoria proclaimed Lacson at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall here on Tuesday, May 13. NEGROS Occidental...
BACOLOD CITY – “Roel (Degamo) this is for you.” Thus said Pamplona, Negros Oriental Mayor Janice Degamo after she was proclaimed by the Provincial Board of Canvassers as the winning candidate in the congressional race in the third district of the province on Tuesday, May 13. THE Provincial...
