BACOLOD City – Precious Zaragosa completed a big late-season surge, securing a wire-to-wire victory in the ICTSI Negros JPGT Championship at the Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club here on Wednesday, June 10, to book her spot in the upcoming Junior PGT Elite Grand Finals. By winning the final...
BACOLOD CITY – A 58-year-old pastor was gunned down in a sugarcane field in Sitio Mag-anay Uno, Barangay Bi-ao, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Monday, June 8. Police Capt. Joelan Vinson, Binalbagan police chief, identified the victim as Marlo, a hacienda overseer and member of the village’s...
BACOLOD City – A scorching second-round showdown looms at the Negros Occidental Golf and Country Club as the race for the remaining ICTSI North vs. South Elite Junior PGT Finals berths reaches a fever pitch. With several heavyweights skipping the sixth and final leg of the Visayas-Mindanao...
BACOLOD CITY – A 41-year-old woman was gunned down following a visit to her detained live-in partner at the Negros Occidental District Jail (NODJ) in Barangay Tabunan, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, June 6. Police identified the victim as Lowela, a resident of Barangay 2, Manapla,...
BACOLOD CITY – The Army 79th Infantry Battalion (IB) is continuing the manhunt against fewer than 10 remaining members of the dismantled Northern Negros Front (NNF-D) in Negros Occidental, including a fugitive rebel. Speaking during the launch of S.A.F.E. Negros Island Region (NIR) 911 in this...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental first district Rep. Julio Ledesma IV urged local government units under his legislative district to declare Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano as persona non grata or unwanted person for trivializing his duty as a legislator amid recent developments in the...
BACOLOD CITY – Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. condoled with the family of Private First Class John Rey Brasil in Sagay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, June 3. Brasil was killed in a clash between the 79th Infantry Battalion (IB) and the New People 's Army (NPA) in Barangay...
BACOLOD CITY – One soldier was wounded in an encounter with the New People’s Army in Barangay Tamlang, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Monday, June 1. First Lt. Fevie Fajardo, 79th Infantry Battalion civil-military operations officer, said the gun battle against five remnants of the dismantled...
International Finance Corp. (IFC) is collaborating with Thailand-based renewable energy (RE) developer Sermsang Power Corp. Public Co. Ltd. as the latter pursues its planned entry into the Philippines through a proposed RE generation project on Negros Island. In a disclosure over the weekend, the...
BACOLOD CITY – The Toboso Municipal Police Station in Negros Occidental prayed for peace and healing of the community on Friday, May 29, following the encounter where 19 New People’s Army (NPA) rebels where killed in Sitio Plarinding, Barangay Salamanca, Toboso on April 19. Rev. Fr. Police...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative (Noceco) admitted on Thursday that it erroneously charged a consumer in Hinigaran town P958,334.94 for electricity consumption in May, an error that went viral after the consumer posted her bill on Facebook, saying it gave her a...
BACOLOD CITY – A 33-year-old dialysis patient was killed and his 62-year-old father was injured in a car-truck collision in Barangay Binicuil, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Monday, May 25. Police identified the fatality as John of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Investigation said...
