BACOLOD CITY – A 70-year-old street cleaner died after she was hit and run over by a trailer truck in Purok Jalandon, Barangay 6 here Thursday, July 21. THE body of a 70-year-old street cleaner lies on the road after she was run over by a trailer truck in Barangay 6, Bacolod City Thursday, July...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here was elected national chairperson of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP). BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez (3rd from left), along with other newly elected LCP officials, is sworn in by Interior and...
BACOLOD CITY – Fifty kilos of uninspected pork were confiscated by authorities in Barangay Alijis here, the Task Force Botagoy reported Wednesday, July 20. A MEMBER of the Task Force Botagoy disposes 50 kilos of hot meat confiscated in Barangay Alijis, Bacolod City following an inspection Monday,...
ABOUT 500 grams of suspected marijuana worth P60,000 was seized from a 20-year-old man in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 2, Bacolod City Wednesday, July 20. (Photo courtesy of Police Station 2) BACOLOD CITY – A 20-year-old man was arrested and 500 grams of suspected marijuana worth P60,000 were...
BACOLOD CITY -- An owner of a car mechanic shop was gunned down in Barangay Villamonte here on Sunday, more than a week after a shooting incident also happened here on July 9. Jose Eduardo Boot, 37, of Barangay 39 here, was the 17th victim of a shooting incident here since June, and the fourth this...
BACOLOD CITY – After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Tanduay Rum Festival returns next month, as a prelude to the MassKara Festival here in October. LUCIO Tan III, president and chief operating officer of Tanduay Distillers Inc. and vice chairman of the Lucio Tan Group (LTG), speaks...
BACOLOD CITY – They will now set out to hunt their former comrades in the communist movement. Two former combatants of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPM-P/RPA-ABB) in Negros Occidental have become soldiers and are now...
BACOLOD CITY – A chemical spill hit Barangay 39 here Thursday, July 14. A TEAM from the Negros Prawn Cooperative obtains samples of the chemical for laboratory testing. (Photo courtesy of the Bacolod City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office) The city government is now probing the...
BACOLOD CITY -- A former Agrarian Reform Beneficiary (ARB) leader was shot dead by a lone gunman on Osmena Ave., Barangay 5, Victorias City, Negros Occidental Wednesday, July 13. POLICE cordon off the area in Barangay 5, Victorias City, Negros Occidental where a former ARB leader was shot dead...
BACOLOD CITY -- People were roused from their sleep as a magnitude-3.2 earthquake jolted this city before dawn Thursday, July 14. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the epicenter of the quake at 2:12 a.m. was located six kilometers northwest here. The quake was...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez here has refused to pay the P98-million balance for Covid-19 vaccines bought by his predecessor Evelio Leonardia in 2021. BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez (right) during a recent press briefing at the Bacolod City Government Center,...
BACOLOD CITY -- A young woman listed as top 2 in the priority list of Police Station 5 was arrested in a buy-bust operation at Bangga Bagul, Barangay Granada here on Sunday night, July 10, after the raiders found 77 grams of shabu worth P510,000 in her possession. A young woman was arrested after...
