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...
BACOLOD CITY – Tanya Familiaran, chairman of Barangay 13 here, resigned from her post effective June 9. Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Bacolod Director Christian Nagaynay said they received her resignation letter on June 20. She stated personal concern as the reason for...
BACOLOD CITY – Outgoing Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez underscored the economic growth of Bacolod in the past three years, saying that he is turning over a highly urbanized city that is “competitive, rising, and ready to lead.” “And as Bacolod grows, so will our numbers – bigger and...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson welcomed the Department of Transportation plan to privatize the operations and maintenance of regional airports, including the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City. Lacson said that the private sector has more resources to introduce...
BACOLOD CITY – A 55-year-old construction worker was killed by the concrete wall of a hotel comfort room that collapsed at the Goldenfield Commercial Complex in Barangay Singcang-Airport here on Friday, June 20. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod took the victim Arnel, a resident of...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez has directed the City Health Office to identify the source of the first monkeypox (Mpox) case here that was not a local transmission. Benitez said that local health authorities are probing how the patient acquired the infection, despite not having a travel...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office warned people against spreading false information, warning that they can be held liable for creating public alarm and tarnishing the city’s reputation. Their warning came after an alleged abduction and rape incident involving a 25-year-old college...
