BACOLOD CITY – Two teenage cousins died after their motorcycle crashed into a parked truck loaded with sugarcane pulp in Hacienda Baga-as, Barangay Efigenio, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Jan. 29. Police identified the victims as Nataniel Conde, 18, and Alvin Bendoy, 19, residents of...
BACOLOD CITY - A top military official in the Visayas has directed the Army in Negros island to step up their operations against the New People’s Army (NPA) to prevent them from doing more atrocities. Lt. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, commander of Army 3rd Infantry Division (ID) and acting commander of...
BACOLOD CITY -- A couple was arrested after they allegedly yielded 52 grams of shabu worth P353,600 during a buy-bust operation at Sitio Pulo, Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Arrested were Ma. Chin-Chin Grace Cuadra, and her live-in partner Jeffrey Fuentes,...
BACOLOD CITY -- The city government of Sipalay in Negros Occidental, through its Bantay Dagat, released a new batch of sea turtle hatchlings at Poblacion beach on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Bantay Dagat personnel release 45 hatchlings of Olive Ridley sea turtles at Poblacion beach in Sipalay City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – The New People’s Army (NPA) has claimed responsibility for the killing of two men in Negros Occidental recently. Police identified the victims as farmer Silas Granada, 65, of Barangay Pinggot, Ilog municipality, and Jose Rammel Europa, 47, of Barangay Camandag, La Castellana...
BACOLOD CITY -- A minor and his friend were brutally killed in Purok Pili, Barangay 6, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Friday, Jan. 27. One of the victims was identified by the Kabankalan Police as Ervin Colorado, 22, while the name of the 16-year-old boy victim was withheld. Both were...
BACOLOD CITY – A company is planning to establish a factory that will produce craft chocolates from a rare variety of locally grown cacao plant in Negros Occidental. CHLOE Doutre Roussel, a cacao and chocolate connoisseur from France, and Ricardo Dominic Lopez, general manager of CY & Sons...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Office 6 said on Friday, Jan. 27, that the newly-completed road had provided access to two far-flung barangays in Ilog, Negros Occidental. Aside from the road project, a building was also constructed for the use of the indigenous peoples...
BACOLOD CITY -- A motorcycle rider died while two others were wounded after a multiple vehicular collision at Crossing Bagong Dalan, Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Rescuers and police respond to a multiple vehicular collision in Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City,...
BACOLOD CITY - A man died after a truck hit the carabao-pulled cart he was riding in an accident at Hacienda Bibiana, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The victim was identified as Ceasar Jaena, 42, of Barangay E. Lopez. Executive Master Sgt. Joemarie Lachica,...
Vice President Sara Duterte’s trip to Negros Occidental on Monday, Jan. 23, enabled her to help two patients, who are both suffering from serious medical conditions. Vice President Sara Duterte visits one-year-old Adezequel Ramirez, who has a cleft palate, in Talisay City on Monday, Jan. 23,...
BACOLOD CITY -- An elderly man, who was an alleged supporter of the New People’s Army (NPA), voluntarily surrendered to the authorities in Barangay Canlusong, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Friday, Jan. 20. The identity of the 60-year-old man from Cadiz City was withheld. He turned over a...
