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...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental provincial government hailed the return of the Mango Harvesters painting of National Artist Fernando Amorsolo to the Hofileña Museum in Silay City, Negros Occidental. FERNANDO Amorsolo's Mango Harvester's painting. (FB) The 1936 painting, stolen from the...
BACOLOD CITY – A New People’s Army rebel recently surrendered to the police in Silay City, Negros Occidental. Forty-year-old Ka Nonoy, a laborer and a resident of Barangay Guimbala-on, Silay City, turned over a caliber .38 revolver and an improvised 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun. Ka Nonoy...
BACOLOD CITY – Three New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to the police in Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental. They turned over a .38 caliber revolver, a .22 caliber revolver, two improvised 12-gauge shotgun with three shells, and two 40mm explosives. The Negros Occidental Police...
BACOLOD CITY – A 63-year-old farm overseer was gunned down in Hacienda San Isidro, Barangay Bagtic, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Friday, Feb. 14. A 63-year-old farm overseer was shot dead in Barangay Bagtic, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Friday, Feb. 14. (Photo courtesy of Silay City...
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 33-year-old pedicab driver was gunned down and his younger brother was wounded by a lone gunman in Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Jan. 18. Police Lt. Col. Mark Anthony Darroca, Silay police chief, identified the fatality as Mark Britanico. Injured...
BACOLOD CITY – A 39-year-old sugarcane farm worker or “sacada” was stabbed dead during an altercation with the father of his live-in partner in Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, Dec. 22. The victim was identified as Ruben. A 39-year-old sugarcane worker was...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Joedith Gallego of Silay City, Negros Occidental mourned the death of former Silay City Mayor Carlo Gamban. GAMBAN “It is with a heavy heart that I join the people of Silay City in mourning the passing of our beloved former Mayor Gamban,” Gallego said. Gallego said that...
BACOLOD CITY – Former Mayor Carlo Gamban of Silay City, Negros Occidental was found dead in his house in Silay City on Monday afternoon, Dec. 2. GAMBAN (right) Police Lt. Col. Mark Anthony Darroca, Silay police chief, said that the 85-year-old former local chief executive was found with...
BACOLOD CITY – A 54-year-old electric bike (e-bike) driver was gunned down in Barangay Guinhalaran, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Nov. 6. The victim was identified as Domingo Superficial. Police Lt. Col. Mark Anthony Darroca, Silay police chief, said the victim was sitting on...
