BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – The city government is optimistic about attracting more investors and boosting local tourism amid record-high local revenues and tourist arrivals since the start of the year. In his State-of-the-City Address on Wednesday night, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said reforms and...
BACOLOD CITY – An elderly woman was sent back to jail after she was caught in possession of 26 grams of shabu worth P176,800 during a buy-bust in Barangay Handumanan here on Wednesday, July 5. A 66-year-old woman was arrested after police seized 26 grams of shabu worth P176,800 in a buy-bust...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here is awaiting the response of Mayor Jerry Treñas regarding his appeal to lift the executive order declaring Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran person non-grata over the uncoordinated transfer of Badjaos from this city to Iloilo City...
BACOLOD CITY – A bomb threat forced passengers to disembark from a Cebu Pacific flight bound for Manila from this city at the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, July 2. Police Major Deejay Domingo, chief of the Bacolod-Silay Airport Police Station, said that...
BACOLOD CITY – A father and his son voluntarily surrendered to the police here on Thursday, June 29, a day after they were accused of killing their relative in Dumangas, Iloilo on Wednesday, June 28. A FATHER and son tagged in the killing of their relative in Dumangas, Iloilo on Wednesday, June...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested three persons for allegedly selling P15.1-million worth of stolen batteries from a telecommunications cell site to a junk shop on Mabini St. in Barangay 25 here on Thursday, June 29....
BACOLOD CITY – Fifteen grams of suspected shabu worth P100,000 were seized from a couple in a buy-bust operation at their rented house in Barangay 35 here on Thursday, June 29. A COUPLE was arrested with P100,000 worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 35, Bacolod City on...
BACOLOD CITY – A 37-year-old man is back in jail after police seized from him 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000 in a buy-bust operation in Purok Kawayan, Barangay 28 here on Tuesday, June 27. Police identified the suspect as Lyle Infante of Barangay 28. A FORMER drug offender was...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 19-year-old college student and seized 255 grams of suspected shabu worth P1.7 million in a buy-bust operation in Purok Tahong, Barangay 2 here on Tuesday, June 27. A 19-year-old college student was arrested after police seized 255 grams of suspected shabu...
BACOLOD CITY – A former drug offender was found dead in an old piggery in Purok Pilit Dos, Barangay 6 here on Monday, June 26. POLICEMEN cordon the area of a piggery where a former drug offender was found dead in Barangay 6, Bacolod City on Monday, June 26. (Photo courtesy of Police Station 2)...
BACOLOD CITY – “Respect begets respect.” This was the reaction of Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran here after he was declared persona non-grata by Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas through an executive order issued on Friday, June 23, over the “uncoordinated transfer” of Badjaos from Bacolod to...
BACOLOD CITY – A former security yielded 70 grams of suspected shabu worth P476,800 in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tangub here on Thursday, June 22, police said. POLICE conduct an inventory of 70 grams of suspected shabu worth P476,800 seized from a former security guard in a buy-bust...
