BACOLOD CITY – A high school teacher won a brand-new car in the New Year’s countdown raffle at the Bacolod City Government Center (BCGC) on December 31. “It’s very overwhelming to win such a blessing for the first time,” said Darlene Grace Aurelio of Barangay Vista Alegre. In a media...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a man for allegedly stealing a monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament at the adoration chapel of the San Sebastian Cathedral here on December 30. READ: https://mb.com.ph/2023/12/31/stolen-monstrance-returned-to-church-in-bacolod Police Major Elmer Bonilla, head of...
BACOLOD CITY – This city and Negros Occidental logged 13 fireworks-related injuries as of January 2, the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) here said. John Michael Gabriel Zaragoza, public information officer of the CLMMRH, said that eight were from Bacolod and...
BACOLOD CITY – A monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament stolen from the adoration chapel of the San Sebastian Cathedral here on Saturday, December 30, was found at the church’s gate early Sunday morning, December 31. The church said that the stolen sacred object was sealed in a bag when it was...
BACOLOD CITY –Six sacks of refilled butane canisters were confiscated by the City Legal Enforcement Team here on Thursday, December 28. The enforcement team conducted an inspection at Burgos Public Market as part of their intensified campaign against selling of refilled butane canisters,...
BACOLOD CITY – The body of an infant was found buried in a vacant lot in Barangay Handumanan here on Tuesday, December 26. Police Capt. Lalaine Lagoting, head of Police Station 10, said that children discovered the baby wrapped in a towel, placed inside a box, and sealed with plastic. THE body of...
BACOLOD CITY – This city logged the first firecracker-related injury this year on Christmas Eve. The victim was an 11-year-old boy here based on the record of the City Health Office (CHO). Dr. Grace Tan, head of the Environment Sanitation Division of the CHO, said the victim is a...
BACOLOD CITY – Thirty-nine families or 117 individuals lost their homes in fire in a residential area on Mabini-Luzuriaga St., Purok Paghidaet, Barangay 29, this city, on Tuesday, December 26. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod said that seven houses were destroyed and six...
BACOLOD CITY – A motorcycle rider died after he was run over by a garbage truck on Araneta Ave. in Barangay Tangub here on Christmas Eve. A 29-year-old motorcycle rider died in a road accident in Bacolod City on Christmas Eve. (Police Station 8 photo) Police identified the victim as Jessie...
BACOLOD CITY – A fire razed six houses in Purok Bolinao, Barangay 1 here on Saturday, December 23. FIREMEN battle a blaze in a residential fire in Barangay 1, Bacolod City on Saturday, December 23. (Photo courtesy of Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade) According to the Bureau of Fire Protection...
BACOLOD CITY – Transport groups here and in the province of Negros Occidental called on the government to extend the December 31 deadline for the consolidation of public utility vehicle (PUV) operators. Rudy Catedral, president of the Bacolod Alliance for Commuters Operators and Drivers (Bacod),...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office unveiled its third standard Philippine National Station building here on Thursday, December 21. The three-story building in a 500-square meter lot donated by businessman Roy Villa in Barangay Felisa was built for P10 million and funded by the Office...
