BACOLOD CITY – A Bacolod City Regional Trial Court has dismissed the petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by local transport groups here against two police officers of the Bacolod City Police Office after they were arrested during a transport strike in this city recently. The respondents were...
BACOLOD CITY – A 34-year-old lineman plunged to his death while working on an electric post in Barangay Villamonte here amid inclement weather due to the southwest monsoon or “habagat” enhanced by tropical cyclones on Sunday, September 15. A 34-year-old Negros Power lineman, Jessie James...
BACOLOD CITY – The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported on Thursday, September 19, that Negros Occidental has sustained P104.9 million in damage to agriculture due to the southwest monsoon or “habagat” enhanced by recent weather disturbances. THE town of...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested three persons in an entrapment operation for selling fake artificial insemination products in Barangay Tangub here on Tuesday, September 17. POLICE seized P3.3-million worth of tea packs passed off as artificial insemination products in Barangay Tangub,...
BACOLOD CITY -- A manicurist was stabbed to death by a fellow manicurist during an altercation over a customer in a public plaza in Barangay 12 here on Tuesday, September 17. A MANICURIST was stabbed dead at the public plaza in Barangay 12, Bacolod City on Tuesday, September 17. (Photo...
BACOLOD CITY -- The body of a 14-year-old boy was found on Tuesday night, September 17, three days after he drowned in Campomanes Bay, Barangay Maricalum, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, September 14. Ensign James Carbajosa, acting commander of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)-southern...
BACOLOD CITY – A 45-year-old man was stabbed dead by a warehouse helper during a heated argument in Barangay Tangub here on Monday, September 16. A MAN was stabbed to death in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City on Monday, September 16. (Photo courtesy of RMN-DYHB Bacolod) Police identified...
BACOLOD CITY – Twenty-nine houses were damaged by heavy rain and strong wind from the “habagat” or southwest monsoon here. STRONG winds from the southwest monsoon or ‘habagat’ toppled a tree that fell onto a house in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City over the weekend. (Photo courtesy of...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office announced on Monday, September 16, that Mayor Albee Benitez has offered a cash reward of P50,000 for information leading to arrest of the two suspects involved in the murder of a Grade 11 student who was falsely accused of rape in Barangay Granada...
BACOLOD CITY – The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said Negros Occidental sustained P8,022,297.36 in damage to crops, livestock, and fisheries due to the “habagat” or southwest monsoon. A SECTION of Pontevedra, Negros Occidental is flooded over the weekend due to...
BACOLOD CITY – Nine out of 61 barangays here were flooded since Friday night, September 13, due to heavy rains from the intensified southwest monsoon or “habagat.” BARANGAY Pahanocoy was among the areas flooded by heavy rain from the southwest monsoon in Bacolod City on Saturday, September...
BACOLOD CITY – Two men were murdered here on Thursday, September 12. Police identified the victims as 31-year-old Reman Quiñanola of Barangay Bantayan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, and Mark, 39, of Barangay Bata, this city. Quiñanola was found with head injuries in a sugarcane field in...