BACOLOD CITY – A grade 10 student who attended a Christmas Party in school, was killed after he was run over by a truck in Barangay 2 Poblacion, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Thursday, Dec. 15. The name of the 16-year-old boy, a resident of Barangay Cudangdang, was withheld. Rescuers arrive...
BACOLOD CITY -- Policemen tagged the New People’s Army (NPA) as behind the burning incident that left P600,000 worth of damage on two trucks in Barangay Tabun-ac Proper, Toboso, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Dec. 14. Authorities respond to a burning incident allegedly staged by suspected NPA...
BACOLOD CITY - The local government here and Negros Occidental jointly imposed a total ban on all live domestic and wild birds, and their products, including eggs and manure from areas with reported cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) or bird flu. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’...
BACOLOD CITY – A Grade 11 student was allegedly raped and killed in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental over the weekend. A POLICE officer checks the area in Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental where a 16-year-old girl allegedly raped was found dead last Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Negros...
By Glazyl Masculino By Glazyl Masculino BACOLOD CITY -- At least 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000 were seized from a fish vendor during a buy-bust operation at a public market in Barangay 2, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Police identified the suspect as Renato...
The bill seeking to create the Negros Island Region (NIR) has been approved by the Senate Committee on Local Government. The bill seeks to merge Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental into one region again. “Malinaw po ang pangangailangan ng ating mga kababayan sa Negros Occidental at Negros...
BACOLOD CITY -- A man died after he was stabbed by his nephew at their house in Barangay Gahit, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Dec. 3. Maj. Kenneth Jay Gratones, E.B. Magalona police chief, said that grudges over gossip triggered the suspect identified as Loyd Richard Tuting, 19, to...
Amid mounting calls for an investigation, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) maintained Saturday, Dec. 3, that the slain consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) during a military operation in Kabankalan City recently was behind “all” the attacks perpetrated...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Poet, artist and activist Ericson Acosta died on Bonifacio Day, Nov. 30, at around 2 a.m., in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental. He was 50. The tributes continue to pour in from contemporaries, fellow poets and artists, classmates and friends. According to the 62nd Infantry Battalion...
BACOLOD CITY -- A motorcycle rider died while six others were injured in separate accidents in Purok Rosas, Barangay Calumangan, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The fatality was identified as Phil Mark Francisco of Muntinlupa. Staff Sgt. Ronald Javier, traffic investigator of...
BACOLOD CITY -- A newly-identified individual was arrested in a buy-bust operation at Sitio Pasil, Barangay 6A, Zone 3, Victorias City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The 15 grams of shabu worth P102,000 seized from a newly-identified individual in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 6A,...
BACOLOD CITY – A sedan that went out of control fell into a canal and overturned, killing two of its passengers and wounding another in a road crash in Purok Proper South, Barangay Taloc, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Nov. 30. A sedan overturned upon falling into a canal,...
