BACOLOD CITY – The city government has hired at least 1,900 job order (JO) casual employees. Mayor Greg Gasataya said that appointments will be issued in a month, as their names have been endorsed to different government offices. “What is important is their names are already there and...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office remains optimistic about meeting the national directive for a five-minute police response amid traffic and limited resources. The BCPO recently conducted a simulation exercise witnessed by Mayor Greg Gasataya and Police Brig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay,...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya announced on Monday, July 7, that a new local group has been tapped to organize this year’s MassKara Festival in October. The announcement of the group’s identity is expected within the week. Speaking in a press briefing at the Bacolod City Government...
BACOLOD CITY – Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri appealed to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to sign the bill that seeks to extend the terms of office for barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials into a law. “I don’t know if he will sign it or not. It depends on whether he chooses to approve...
PrimeWater Infrastructure Corporation and Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) are pumping up Bacolod’s water supply with the recent activation of the Matab-ang Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Barangay Granada, which is expected to scale output to six million liters per day (MLD) within the year....
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a seven- to eight-month-old newborn baby girl was found near a river in Purok Kaburihan, Barangay Estefania, this city, on Wednesday, July 2. Police said a resident noticed and checked a plastic bag dumped in the area and discovered the infant. Her umbilical cord was...
BACOLOD CITY - Authorities confiscated 149 boxes of smuggled cigarettes valued at P8.38 million here on Wednesday morning, July 2. Police Major Kent Jerek Capadosa, acting commander of the Maritime Police 4th Special Operations Unit, said police responded to a report about a suspicious vessel and...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya has ordered all city government personnel to return to their original plantilla positions or mother units, regardless of their current rank, position, or assignment, effective July 1. Gasataya issued the directive in an executive order he signed upon assuming...
BACOLOD CITY – An elderly couple was killed in a fire that razed their two-story house in Barangay Taculing here before dawn on Monday, June 30. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod identified the fatalities as Edison, 80, and his wife Emelyn, 81. Fire Supt. Jenny Mae Masip, city fire...
BACOLOD CITY - Outgoing Rep. Greg Gasataya took his oath before Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla as the new mayor of this highly-urbanized city on Saturday, June 28. Gasataya, who is the 44th mayor of this city, said that his administration will be anchored on H-E-A-R-T....
BACOLOD CITY – Anti-drug operatives of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) seized 1.842 kilograms of shabu worth P12.525 million and arrested nine persons in five separate buy-busts over the weekend, a police report on Sunday said. Each gram of shabu has a standard drug price of P6,800. The...
BACOLOD CITY – Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran and four councilors were recognized by the City Council for dedicating their time, expertise, and tireless efforts for the betterment of this highly-urbanized city. After serving three terms as vice mayor since 2016, Familiaran, also a presiding...
