By Jinggoy Salvador First, let’s look back at the sugar trail. After Nicholas Loney successfully boosted the sugar trade in Iloilo, he turned his eyes to the neighboring island Negros to expand sugarcane source. He then offered the Negrense farmers the same generous conditions he extended to the...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) has reported three new cases of pertussis or whooping cough here, bringing the total positive cases to six. Dr. Maria Carmela Gensoli, city health officer, said the patients are all males, aged one-year-old, one-month-old, and two-months-old. The...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) will deploy a total of 1,102 security forces to ensure peace and order in this year’s Panaad sa Negros Festival from April 15 to 21. SECURITY forces for the Panaad sa Negros Festival starting on April 15 are deployed during...
BACOLOD CITY – Forty-seven families composed of 144 individuals lost their homes in a fire in Purok Interior, Barangay 18, this city, on Saturday, April 13. A FIRE hits a residential area in Barangay 18, Bacolod City on Saturday, April 13. (Photo courtesy of BFP-Bacolod) The Bureau of Fire...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested two suspected drug pushers in buy-bust operations here and Negros Occidental on April 11 and 12. Seized from the suspects were P945,200 worth of suspected shabu. A SUSPECTED drug pusher was arrested and P850,000 shabu was confiscated in a buy-bust operation in...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Health Office (CHO) reported three confirmed cases of pertussis or whooping cough here. Dr. Grace Tan, head of the CHO Environment Sanitation Division, said the patients are all girls from Barangays Tangub, Taculing, and Villamonte aged one- to three-months-old. Tan said...
BACOLOD CITY – A college student was killed and his companion was injured in a motorcycle accident in Barangay Alangilan here on Sunday, April 7. A STUDENT was killed and his companion was injured in a motorcycle crash in Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City on Sunday, April 7. (Photo courtesy...
BACOLOD CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Negros Occidental dismantled a drug den and arrested three persons in a buy-bust operation in Purok Jose Rizal, Barangay 14, this city, on Friday, April 5. The drug den maintainer, Julius de Pedro Batayen, 39, was apprehended. THE...
Suspected shabu totaling P680,000 was seized from two suspected drug pushers in Negros Occidental on Thursday and Friday. Bacolod City A suspected drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Handumanan in Bacolod City on Friday, April 5. A SUSPECTED drug pusher was...
BACOLOD CITY – A reward of P1,000 will be given to anyone who could provide information or photos of individuals committing vandalism in this city. POLICE Col. Noel Aliño, Bacolod City police director, discusses the creation of the Anti-Vandalism Task Force with Police Lt. Col. Lester Leada...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod reported 10 grass fire incidents here on Tuesday, April 2. SEVEN hectares of grassland were destroyed in a late afternoon fire in Barangay Banago, Bacolod City on Tuesday, April 2. (Photo courtesy of BFP-Bacolod) A total of nine hectares...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez has extended the suspension of face-to-face classes on all levels here to April 3 and 4 due to extreme heat that has reached 40 degrees Celsius. READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/4/1/bacolod-negros-lg-us-suspend-classes-due-to-high-heat BENITEZ (right) Benitez...
