BACOLOD CITY – The Land Transportation Office-Negros Island Region (LTO-NIR) stopped an illegal motorcycle drag race in Barangay Granada here on Sunday night, April 26, through information from a concerned citizen. LTO-NIR Director Jeck Conlu monitored the situation on the Bacolod-Negros...
Defending champion National University Nazareth School survived a serious scare from feisty St. John’s Institute, 20-25, 32-30, 15-12, to book a Final Four ticket in the Shakey’s Girls Volleyball Invitational League (SGVIL) Rising Stars Cup Division 1 on Wednesday, April 29, at the La Salle...
BACOLOD CITY – Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Monday, April 27, named Police Major Edgar Tonico Jr., chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Bacolod, as an alleged e-sabong protector in Negros Island. Remulla’s revelation came three days after...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) is transitioning to a lower carbon footprint and a cost-effective fleet with the deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) to its 10 police stations. The EVs, procured by the city government for P14 million, were turned over by Mayor Greg Gasataya...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) paid their last respects to Police Master Sgt. Romulo Galvez Jr. who was laid to rest on Sunday, April 26, more than two weeks after he was killed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Singcang-Airport here on April 9. The BCPO rendered a 21-gun...
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. said adjustments will be made to better protect officers following the death of a cop in an anti-illegal drugs operation in Bacolod City on April 9. Police Master Sgt. Romulo Galvez Jr. was shot dead by drug suspect...
BACOLOD CITY – The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) dismantled a reported large-scale illegal cigarette manufacturing and distribution network in Negros Occidental, following the discovery of almost P800-million worth of equipment, raw materials, and packaging supplies in two...
BACOLOD CITY – This highly-urbanized city is providing assistance for 80 families or 240 individuals displaced by a fire in Purok Ramon, Magsaysay, Barangay 14 here on Tuesday, April 21. Fire Officer 2 Rolin Paulan, chief arson investigator of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod, said the...
Perennial title-contender Bacolod Tay Tung breezed past Canossa Academy, 25-10, 25-9, for back-to-back wins in the Shakey’s Girls Volleyball Invitational League (SGVIL) Rising Stars Cup Division 1 on Wednesday, April 22, at the La Salle Green Hills Gym. The two-time runner-up provincial squad...
BACOLOD CITY – Thirty-two houses were destroyed in a fire in Purok Ramon, Magsaysay, Barangay 14 here on Tuesday, April 21. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod received a fire call at 3:14 p.m. Fire Supt. Jenny Mae Masip, city fire marshal, in a media interview, said the fire was raised...
BACOLOD CITY – This year’s Panaad sa Negros Festival at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Barangay Mansilingan here earned P29.4 million from April 13 to 19. This was P12.8 million higher compared to last year with only P16.6 million. The highest sales were recorded on Saturday and Sunday, with...
BACOLOD CITY – The Land Transportation Office-Negros Island Region (LTO-NIR) condemned two fuel and run incidents here and in Talisay City, Negros Occidental involving the same Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). “We will hunt you down,” said LTO-NIR Director Jeck Conlu. On April 15 in Barangay...
