CEBU CITY – Several firearms were seized when operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) raided the property of former Negros Oriental Governor Henry Pryde Teves on Friday dawn, March 24. SEVERAL firearms and bullets are seized during a raid in a compound owned by...
BACOLOD CITY -- Col. Reynaldo Lizardo, Negros Oriental police chief, was relieved from his post effective March 22. LIZARDO (PNA photo) Lizardo was relieved almost three weeks after Gov. Roel Degamo, along with eight others, was killed and 17 others were wounded in his residence in Pamplona town....
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves Jr. questioned his colleagues, especially those from House Committee on Ethics and Privileges, as to why they have singled out his unauthorized absences from the chamber. Teves said he wondered why his record of being an absentee in recent...
BACOLOD CITY – Thousands of residents from various parts of Negros Oriental paid their last respect to their slain leader, Governor Roel Degamo, during his burial in Bonawon, Siaton town on Thursday, March 16. MAYOR Janice Degamo, wife of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, cries for justice during...
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – The Special Joint Task Force Negros said on Wednesday, March 15, that the slain suspect in the March 4 killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo and eight others was a former member of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). LABRADILLA (FB)...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Tuesday, March 14, went to Siaton, Negros Oriental to visit the wake of slain Gov. Roel Degamo, one of her political allies. Duterte visited Degamo’s hometown where his wake is being held after it was transferred from his residence in...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Monday, March 6, called on the Philippine National Police (PNP) to live up to their mandate to serve and to protect the Filipino people. Zubiri stressed this in his co-sponsorship of a Senate resolution calling on the PNP to address the killings and attacks...
Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Monday, March 6 urged the government to pursue an all-out-war against gun-for-hire syndicates using intelligence funds. “Only the identification and dismantling of groups of hired killers can assassinations be stopped,” Escudero stressed as he condemned the...
DEGAMO (Provincial Government of Negros Oriental FB) CEBU CITY – The governor of Negros Oriental opposed plans to construct an international airport in Bacong, a fourth-class municipality in the province. Gov. Roel Degamo vowed to bring his opposition to the Office of the President. "For the...
