BACOLOD CITY – A total of 2,431 families were displaced by flooding in this highly-urbanized city and Talisay City, Negros Occidental, following hours of heavy rains from Friday night, July 11, to Saturday morning, July 12. Data released by Mayor Greg Gasataya here on Saturday morning said 301...
CEBU CITY – Sacks of suspected smuggled rice worth P38 million were seized from a warehouse in Barangay San Roque, Talisay City, Cebu on Wednesday afternoon, July 9. Led by Frederick D. Go, Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs, the operation led to the...
CEBU CITY – Suspected shabu worth more than P20 million was seized from a flower shop owner in Barangay Cansojong, Talisay City, Cebu. Merian Sancija Borkowski, 36, was arrested in a buy-bust operation in her home at 3:55 p.m. on Saturday, July 5. Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement...
BACOLOD CITY -- The first-ever lady mayor of Talisay City, Negros Occidental, was sworn in on Monday, June 30. Lawyer Rowena Lizares was inducted by Regional Trial Court Executive Judge Therese Blanche Bolunia at the Talisay public plaza after attending a Mass with her family, friends,...
BACOLOD CITY – The Provincial Health Office (PHO) assured the public there is no cause for alarm over the first confirmed case of monkeypox (Mpox) in Negros Occidental. “Indi magpakulba (Don’t be scared), said Provincial Health Officer Dr. Girlie Pinongan in a media interview Tuesday,...
BACOLOD CITY – Talisay City in Negros Occidental logged its first monkeypox (Mpox) case. Mayor Neil Lizares, in a statement released on social media on Monday night, June 23, said the patient is currently in stable condition, under close medical supervision, properly isolated, and receiving...
CEBU CITY – Imported right-hand-drive vehicles were seized in a raid in Talisay City, Cebu on Monday, June 9. The seizure of the 65 vehicles was in line with the instruction of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to conduct aggressive operations against those who compromise road safety, said Land...
BACOLOD CITY – A newborn baby girl was found abandoned in a passenger jeepney in Barangay Zone 8, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, June 8. She was reported on Monday morning, June 9, to the police who referred the case to the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
CEBU CITY – The first case of monkeypox in Cebu province has been confirmed. The patient was from Talisay City who already died but not due to monkeypox but because of other health complications. Talisay Mayor Samsam Gullas made the confirmation to allay public fear. “I’ve received reports...
BACOLOD CITY - Eleven people, including five minors, were injured after a passenger jeepney crashed in Sitio Mambucano, Barangay Cabatangan, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Monday morning, May 19. Police Major Rhazl Jim Jocson, deputy chief of the Talisay City Police Station, said the jeepney...
BACOLOD CITY – Lawyer Rowena Lizares was elected as the first lady mayor of Talisay City in Negros Occidental. “Today, I was proclaimed the first woman ever to have been elected as mayor of my beloved Talisay City. I am at a loss for words but then I have so much to say in gratitude,” Lizares...
Pope Leo XIV visited the Philippines twice before he became the head of the Catholic Church on Thursday, May 8. POPE Leo XIV, then Father Robert Prevost, presiding over a Mass at the San Agustin Church in Intramuros, Manila, in 2010. (CBCP News FB) The Pontiff – then Father Robert Prevost...
