BACOLOD CITY – A Grade 11 student was arrested after he was caught with dried marijuana leaves inside his classroom at Rafael B. Lacson Memorial High School in Barangay 12, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, May 10. THE suspected dried marijuana leaves and an improvised pipe...
BACOLOD CITY – A 52-year-old man who was the subject of a buy-bust operation for selling shabu was also found to have some marijuana plants in his backyard at Hacienda Lonoy, Barangay Hawaiian, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, May 11. SOME suspected marijuana plants were discovered by...
An aide of former Negros Oriental governor Henry Pryde Teves has accused Siaton Mayor Cezanne Fritz Diaz of harassing him in a confrontation on Wednesday, following the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs’ hearings into the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo....
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs has lifted the contempt order against a police officer who was linked to an assassination attempt in Dumaguete City. It was Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada who made a motion to lift the contempt order against PS/Sgt Noel Alabata at the...
BACOLOD CITY – A man who was reportedly under the influence of liquor died after he was hit by a car driven by a policeman in Barangay Awaan, Ayungon, Negros Oriental on Tuesday, May 9. RESCUERS assist a man who was hit by a car driven by a policeman in Barangay Awaan, Ayungon, Negros...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will hold public hearings in the towns of violence-hit Negros Oriental before it would decide whether or not to postpone the scheduled Oct. 30 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSK) elections in that province. Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairperson...
BACOLOD CITY – A man was hacked to death by his friend allegedly due to his hidden desire on the latter’s wife in Barangay San Isidro, Toboso, Negros Occidental. POLICEMEN cordon the area where a man was found dead in Barangay San Isidro, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Monday, May 8. (Photo...
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – New witnesses are set to testify during the resumption of the Senate hearings on the assassination of Gov. Roel Degamo last March and various other killings in Negros Oriental over the past several years. MAYOR Janice Degamo (FB) This comes after additional cases of killings...
BACOLOD CITY – A motorcycle rider died after he was hit by a container van on Purok Langka Road, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, May 6. A MOTORCYCLE rider died after he was hit by a container van that detached from a trailer truck in Barangay E. Lopez, Silay...
BACOLOD CITY – Brig. Gen. Orlando Edralin, commander of the Army 303rd Infantry Brigade (IBde), vowed to continue pursuing the remaining New People’s Army (NPA) rebels operating in Negros. Edralin made the declaration after troops from the 94th Infantry Battalion (IB) clashed with NPA rebels in...
BACOLOD CITY – Another dead infant was found on Saturday, May 6, this time under a bridge in Hacienda Malisbog 2, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental. A POLICEMAN checks the decomposing body of an infant who was found under a bridge in Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Fifteen persons were injured after the passenger jeepney they were riding plunged into a canal in Barangay Hilamonan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, May 4. A PASSENGER jeepney lies on its side after it fell into a canal in Barangay Hilamonan, Kabankalan City,...
