BACOLOD CITY – Local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental suspended classes on all levels and work in government offices from Nov. 3 to 4 due to the threat of tropical cyclone “Tino.” These LGUs were Toboso, Moises Padilla, Binalbagan, Calatrava, E.B. Magalona, Don Salvador Benedicto,...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Emergency Operations Center is preparing for tropical cyclone ‘’Tino.’’ Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson, PDRRMC chairperson, issued a memorandum on Nov. 1 placing the PDRRMC under red alert, directing...
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental third district Rep. Javier Miguel Benitez on Saturday asked the Philippine National Police and Department of Justice to thoroughly investigate the brutal killing of a 42-year-old single mother from Victorias City, Negros Occidental. “I am calling for a full and...
BACOLOD CITY – A police officer assigned to the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) surrendered on Saturday, Nov. 1, leading to the discovery of the body of a missing 42-year-old single mother in Barangay Don Jorge Araneta, Bago City, Negros Occidental. The suspect, with a rank of police staff...
BACOLOD CITY – Police are investigating the disappearance of a woman after her car was discovered abandoned with bloodstains in Sitio So-ol, Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The 42-year-old woman, a single mother, has a 10-year-old child, and a resident of...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office is investigating the encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army in Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental province on Oct. 28. The incident claimed the life of a six-year-old boy believed to have been hit...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo has called on the New People’s Army (NPA) to surrender and pursue peace talks, following a gun battle between soldiers and communist rebels where a six-year-old boy was killed in Sitio Matal-i, Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – A six-year-old boy was killed in an encounter between the military and the New People’s Army in Barangay Quintin Remo, Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental province on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Vice Mayor Felix Mathias Segundo Yulo has visited the remains of the victim and extended...
BACOLOD CITY – A 24-year-old Sangguniang Kabataan councilor was apprehended on Saturday, Oct. 25, in a buy-bust operation in Silay City, Negros Occidental. The suspect Matthew was arrested after he sold suspected shabu valued at P2,800 to a police poseur-buyer. Seized from the suspect were seven...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government of Canlaon in Negros Oriental is on full alert, assuring residents of its readiness, following the eruption of Kanlaon Volcano on Friday night, Oct. 24. “We are on top of the situation," Mayor Jose Chubasco Cardenas said in a statement. As immediate response,...
BACOLOD CITY – Ten barangays and five local government units in Negros Occidental experienced ashfall and reported sulfuric odor following a short-lived, moderately explosive eruption of Kanlaon Volcano on Friday night, Oct. 24. The Bago City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO)...
BACOLOD CITY – Twenty-one senior high school students from three campuses of a private school reportedly fainted during an alleged case of mass hysteria in Barangay Sagua Banwa, Valladolid town, Negros Occidental province, on Wednesday night, Oct. 22. Al John Gegonia, operations and warning...
