CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) will investigate the supposed involvement of a police captain in the alleged illegal activity of the Teves family in Negros Oriental. Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare, spokesperson of PRO-7 chief Police Brig. Gen. Anthony Abellada...
Senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino wants the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in Negros Oriental to be deferred amid the current peace and order situation in that province. Tolentino made the proposal during the continuation of the inquiry of the Senate Committee on Public...
Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (Senate PRIB) The seeming "organized violence" in the province of Negros Oriental is "hard to accept". Senator Ronald ‘’Bato’’ dela Rosa emphasized this at the start of the hearing Wednesday, April 19, of his Senate Public Order and Dangerous Drugs Committee...
BACOLOD CITY – The New People’s Army (NPA) has claimed the killing of a 50-year-old man in Negros Oriental on Saturday, April 15. The Leonardo Panaligan Command (LPC)-Central Negros Guerrilla Front said it killed George Javier in Sitio Guibawan, Barangay Bucalan, Canlaon City for being a...
BACOLOD CITY – An alleged leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in a clash with the government forces at Sitio Lower Tiyos, Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, April 18. The Army, through the help of former NPA rebels, identified the fatality as Jose...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson urged the people to patronize locally manufactured goods as the 27th Panaad sa Negros Festival with the theme “The Promise Renewed” officially opened at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Barangay Mansilingan here on Monday, April 17....
BACOLOD CITY – A total of 680 personnel have been deployed to secure the Panaad sa Negros Festival here from April 17 to 23. MORE than 600 security personnel have been tapped to secure the Panaad sa Negros Festival in Bacolod City from April 17 to 23. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental police) A...
BACOLOD CITY – Policemen and military troops arrested a New People’s Army (NPA) rebel wanted for various offenses at Sitio Anatuling in Barangay Budlasan, Canlaon City, Negros Oriental on Saturday, April 15. The Philippine Army identified the wanted person as Jerry Montefalcon, 49, an alleged...
BACOLOD CITY – A couple was gunned down by unidentified armed assailants at Sitio Mansulao, Barangay San Isidro, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Saturday, April 15. RESIDENTS carry the remains of one of the two victims of a shooting incident in Barangay San Isidro, Toboso, Negros Occidental on...
BACOLOD CITY – A nine-year-old boy died after he allegedly choked on a chocolate candy while in school in Barangay Zone 4, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Friday, April 14. A GRADE 2 pupil died after he allegedly choked on a chocolate candy at his school in Barangay Zone 4, Cadiz City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Two friends died after they were suffocated and eventually drowned in a well one of the two tried to clean at Sitio Syding, Barangay Minapasuk, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Saturday, April 15. RESIDENTS check the well in Barangay Minapasuk, Calatrava, Negros Occidental, where two...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a vendor in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Oringao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Friday, April 14. SUSPECTED shabu worth P102,000 was seized from a vendor in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Oringao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Friday, April...
