BACOLOD CITY – A one-year-old girl drowned on a river in Barangay Suba, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Sunday, April 21. Police Major Ronald Santillan, Calatrava police chief, said the victim went out of her house unnoticed while her mother was doing household chores. Her mother noticed her...
BACOLOD CITY – A resort employee was shot dead in Barangay Oringao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, April 21. A RESORT staff was shot dead in Barangay Oringao, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, April 21. (Photo courtesy of Kabankalan City Police Station) Police...
BACOLOD CITY – A barangay tanod or watchman was shot dead in upland Barangay Laga-an, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Saturday, April 20. Police identified the victim as Alexander Alquizar, 54, of Barangay Laga-an. THE body of a 54-year-old barangay tanod lies in a morgue after he was killed in...
BACOLOD CITY – A third-year veterinary medicine student was crowned Lin-ay sang Negros in this year’s 28th Panaad sa Negros Festival. Kyla Rose Romarate, from Victorias City, Negros Occidental, bested 28 other candidates during the coronation night at the Panaad Park and Stadium here on Friday,...
BACOLOD CITY – A barangay tanod or watchman allegedly gunned down the wife of his brother-in-law in Barangay 10, Victorias City, Negros Occidental after she refused to lend him money last Tuesday, April 16. Police Capt. Genus David, deputy chief of the Victorias City Police Station, said that...
BACOLOD CITY – A whale shark was found dead on Thursday, April 18, a day after it was released back to the sea in Barangay Aguisan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, April 17. A WHALE shark was found dead on Thursday, April 18, a day after it was released in Barangay Aguisan,...
BACOLOD CITY – The Victorias City government has secured a total of P13 million in cash grant to develop a birdwatching site dubbed “A Birder’s Paradise” at the Gawahon Ecopark in the city. VICTORIAS City, Negros Occidental Mayor Javier Miguel Benitez (second from right), with City Tourism...
BACOLOD CITY – Victorias City and Murcia in Negros Occidental topped the city and municipal categories of the Best of Festival Dances Competition during the 28th Panaad sa Negros Festival here on Monday, April 15. The Sidlak Kadalag-an Festival dancers of Victorias City successfully defended...
BACOLOD CITY – A 47-year-old man and his 25-year-old son were arrested and suspected shabu was seized in a search warrant operation in Barangay Gahit, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Saturday, April 13. A MAN and his son were arrested in a search warrant operation in Barangay Gahit, E.B....
BACOLOD CITY – A bedridden senior citizen was killed and her neighbor was injured in a fire in Sitio Garazon, Barangay San Jose, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Saturday night, April 13. A SEPTUAGENARIAN died in a fire in Barangay San Jose, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Saturday, April 13....
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) will deploy a total of 1,102 security forces to ensure peace and order in this year’s Panaad sa Negros Festival from April 15 to 21. SECURITY forces for the Panaad sa Negros Festival starting on April 15 are deployed during...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested two suspected drug pushers in buy-bust operations here and Negros Occidental on April 11 and 12. Seized from the suspects were P945,200 worth of suspected shabu. A SUSPECTED drug pusher was arrested and P850,000 shabu was confiscated in a buy-bust operation in...
