BACOLOD CITY – Two teenage boys were killed after a 10-wheel truck loaded with sugarcane crashed into a computer shop in Purok 9, Barangay Minoyan, Murcia, Negros Occidental on Thursday, May 15. Police Major Sherwin Fernandez, Murcia police chief, said the victims were aged 14 and 15. TWO...
DUMAGUETE CITY – The cremated remains of four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) – two of them from Negros Oriental province – who died in the Myanmar earthquake last April, will be transported to the Philippines next week. EDSIL Jess and Alexis Gale Adalid. (Caesar Eduard A. Adalid FB) The...
BACOLOD CITY – Police have filed murder and frustrated murder complaints against a barangay captain and three others over a shooting incident where two people were killed and seven others were injured in Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Election Day. Police Lt. Col. Joem...
BACOLOD CITY – Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson was reelected for his third and final term in Negros Occidental. The Provincial Board of Canvassers led by Provincial Election Supervisor Ian Lee Ananoria proclaimed Lacson at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall here on Tuesday, May 13. NEGROS Occidental...
BACOLOD CITY – “Roel (Degamo) this is for you.” Thus said Pamplona, Negros Oriental Mayor Janice Degamo after she was proclaimed by the Provincial Board of Canvassers as the winning candidate in the congressional race in the third district of the province on Tuesday, May 13. THE Provincial...
BACOLOD CITY – Three local government units in Negros Occidental are now headed by couples who emerged victorious in the midterm elections. THREE couples won the elections in Negros Occidental. The Mirandas (top photo), Yulos (middle), and the Arceos (photo above). In Kabankalan City, Mayor...
BACOLOD CITY – The prosecutor’s office has dismissed a vote-buying complaint against a 36-year-old man in Bacong, Negros Oriental, according to Commission on Elections-Negros Island Region (Comelec-NIR) Assistant Regional Director Jossil Macute. Macute explained that the case was dropped due to...
BACOLOD CITY – Seven persons were wounded in the Election Day gun attack in Silay City, Negros Occidental. The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) released the names of the wounded hours after the incident happened at 7 a.m. in Barangay Mambulac. Killed in the shooting were...
BACOLOD CITY - Two persons were killed and five others were wounded after a barangay chairman and his two companions allegedly opened fire without provocation while passing through Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Monday morning, May 12. REELECTIONIST Mayor Joedith Gallego...
Police arrested a 57-year-old farmer after guns and bullets were recovered during a raid in his house in Sitio Cansilayan, Barangay 11, Victorias City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, May 10, as part of heightened security operations in Negros Island ahead of the May 12 elections. A 57-year-old...
BACOLOD CITY – A 36-year-old man was arrested after envelopes allegedly containing cash and sample ballots were found in his possession in a checkpoint on Burgos St., Barangay Lutao, Bacong, Negros Oriental on Saturday, May 10. The suspect, Romnick, a resident of Barangay Combado, Bacong, was...
BACOLOD CITY – The Coast Guard District Southern Visayas (CGDSV) has deployed 310 personnel to augment police securing the May 12 mid-term elections in the Negros Island Region (NIR). Commodore Ludovico Librilla Jr., commander of PCG District Southern Visayas, said that 97 were sent to Negros...
