BACOLOD CITY – An Accounting Information System graduate of Colegio San Agustin Bacolod bested 14 other candidates in the Sapphire edition of this year’s Miss Bacolod MassKara. OLMILLA (Photo courtesy of Bacolod Yuhum Foundation Inc.) Princess Ella Olmilla was hailed Sapphire Queen during the...
BACOLOD CITY – Two barangays here were flooded due to heavy rainfall from tropical depression “Kristine,” prompting the evacuation of 79 families composed of 277 individuals on Monday, Oct. 21. RESIDENTS are rescued from a flooded area in Bacolod City. (FB) Edward Ramirez, chief of...
BACOLOD CITY – A seven-month-old baby boy died after he drowned in a pail of water in their house in Barangay Sum-ag here on Monday, Oct. 21. A seven-month-old baby boy drowned in a pail of water in their house in Barangay Sum-ag, Bacolod City on Monday, Oct. 21. (Photo courtesy of Police Station...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized 475 grams of suspected shabu valued at P3.3 million from a 33-year-old female drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Purok Tangkong, Barangay 7, this city, on Saturday, Oct. 19. POLICE recover P3.3-million worth of suspected shabu from a 33-year-old female drug...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office has again thwarted the possible proliferation of shabu in the MassKara Festival after a kilo of the banned substance valued at P6.8 million was seized from a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Purok Masinadyahon, Barangay 12, this city, on...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government recently purchased a customized P6.5-million mobile command center. THE city government of Bacolod's P6.5-million customized mobile command center. (Contributed photo) The fund was sourced from the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, Dr. Anna Maria...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Health is eyeing the construction of a mental health hospital in Negros Occidental. This was revealed by Dr. Mary Ann Maestral, DOH Undersecretary for Visayas, in a phone interview on Wednesday, Oct. 16, a day after a transition team of the DOH-Negros Island...
BACOLOD CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Western Visayas Regional Special Enforcement Team (RSET) arrested a suspected drug pusher after he fell off a roof during a search warrant operation in Purok Boulevard, Barangay 14 here on Monday, October 14. Armed with a search...
BACOLOD CITY – A 25-year-old man was injured in a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) explosion in an eatery in Barangay Villamonte here on Monday morning, October 14. A MAN was injured in a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) explosion in an eatery in Barangay Villamonte, Bacolod City on Monday,...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez has issued an executive order limiting the selling and consumption of liquor in the 45th MassKara Festival here this year. POLICE secure the Bacolod City Government Center (BCGC) during a MassKara Festival event. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office)...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office seized shabu valued at a total of P6.8 million from three suspected drug pushers here in buy-bust operations on Sunday and Monday. Lawmen first arrested Biboy, 37, of Barangay Villamonte on Sunday, October 13, in Barangay Singcang-Airport at 9:32 p.m....
BACOLOD CITY – An estimated 45,000 individuals gathered at the Bacolod City Government Center on Friday night, October 11, to witness the grand countdown that officially opened this year’s MassKara Festival here. Mayor Albee Benitez led the opening of this year’s Sapphire edition of the...
