BACOLOD CITY – The cities of Silay and La Carlota in Negros Occidental have partnered to strengthen disaster response and management for Kanlaon Volcano. SILAY City Mayor Joedith Gallego (seated, left) and La Carlota Mayor Rex Jalando-on (seated, second from left) sign a Memorandum of Agreement...
BACOLOD CITY – A total of 1,018 policemen in Negros Island were promoted on Thursday, Feb. 6. TWO-hundred seventy-four policemen were promoted in Negros Oriental on Thursday, Feb. 6. (Photo courtesy of Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office) Five-hundred twenty-seven were from Negros...
BACOLOD CITY - Three sitios in Barangay Sag-ang, La Castellana, Negros Occidental were affected by ash fall and sulfuric odor from a minor explosion of Kanlaon Volcano on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 6. THE La Castellana municipal government in Negros Occidental distributes face masks to...
Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental and neighboring areas will soon benefit from improved cellular network and data connectivity after the city government signed a partnership with Phil Tower Consortium Inc. to build cell site towers in strategic areas. MAYOR Raymund Tongson (right) and Phil Tower...
BACOLOD CITY – A 41-year-old farmer was fatally shot in Sitio Bedio, Barangay Codcod, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Feb. 2. A 41-year-old farmer was shot dead in Barangay Codcod, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Feb. 2. (Photo courtesy of San Carlos City Police Station) Police...
BACOLOD CITY – Fifty-seven families or 232 individuals lost their homes in a fire in Purok Pasil, Barangay Zone 5, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Feb. 4. FAMILIES affected by a fire in Barangay Zone 5, Talisay City, Negros Occidental are temporarily sheltered at the city...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government of Davao has extended P3.8 million in financial assistance to local government units in Negros Island affected by the Dec. 9, 2024 Kanlaon Volcano eruption. NEGROS Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson receives a check for P1 million from the city government...
BACOLOD CITY – A fire hit 54 houses in Purok Pasil, Barangay Zone 5, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Feb. 4. A FIRE hits a residential area in Barangay Zone 5, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Feb. 4. (Photo via Bacolod Traffic Authority Office deputy head Jose Antonio...
BACOLOD CITY – Talisay City, Negros Occidental Mayor Neil Lizares is alarmed by the land dispute in Hacienda San Antonio Dos, Barangay Dos Hermanas, Talisay City. A video of the incident recently went viral on social media. A SCREEN grab of a viral video showing an alleged security guard pointing...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental police are investigating an ongoing land dispute between a private individual and Certificate of Land Ownership Award beneficiaries in Hacienda San Antonio Dos, Barangay Dos Hermanas, Talisay City, Negros Occidental. A SCREEN grab of a viral video...
BACOLOD CITY – Police confiscated 77 reams of illicit cigarettes valued at P51,000 from a vendor in a buy-bust operation in a public market in Barangay 1, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Feb. 1. A 20-year-old man and illicit cigarettes valued at P50,700 were seized in a...
BACOLOD CITY - A nine-month-old baby boy died in an evacuation center for displaced residents of Kanlaon Volcano in La Castellana, Negros Occidental. Dr. Girlie Pinongan, provincial health officer, said that the baby from Barangay Cabagnaan, La Castellana succumbed to septic shock due to sepsis...
