The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has reassigned seven personnel with relatives running in this year’s barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. Police Lt. Col. Ronnie Brillo, BCPO deputy director for operations, said that two commissioned officers and five non-commissioned police officers...
BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that four candidates in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) here next month have withdrawn their candidacies. Kathrina Trinio-Caña, head of Comelec-Bacolod, said these candidates – a barangay and SK...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here said on Tuesday, September 19, that a Dutch company has expressed interest in helping address flooding in this city. Benitez, chairman of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-Western Visayas, along with some members of the city...
BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections has allowed 1,279 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) in two jails here to vote in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 30. Four-hundred two are from the Metro Bacolod District Jail (MBDJ)-Special Intensive Care Area (SICA) in...
BACOLOD CITY – The mother of a Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL) received a new house from the Metro Bacolod District Jail-Male Dormitory Annex (MBDJ-MDA) in Barangay Handumanan here on Friday, September 15. JAIL Chief Supt. Simeon Dolojo Jr. (third from left), director of BJMP-Western Visayas,...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government recently released a one-time fuel subsidy of P1,000 to tricycle drivers here to enable them to cope with oil price hikes. TRICYCLE drivers receive a one-time fuel subsidy amounting to P1,000 from the city government led by Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’...
Following the government's decision to lift the Covid-19 public health emergency, the Diocese of Bacolod encouraged the faithful to actively and physically attend the Mass as the live streaming of the Mass will be regulated by the end of this month. (Bishop Patricio Buzon of Bacolod/Photo...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 23-year-old drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 27 here on Friday, September 15. Police identified the suspect as Kent John Perez, 23, of Barangay 27. Police Capt. Francis Depasucat, head of Police Station 4, said that 20 grams of suspected shabu...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod-Silay Airport Police Station has initiated a project that would ease the burden of stranded passengers at the airport in Silay City, Negros Occidental. Police Major Deejay Domingo, chief of the Bacolod-Silay Airport Police Station of the Philippine National Police-...
The Diocese of Bacolod would implement changes in the live streaming of Masses in churches following the lifting of coronavirus restrictions by the government. In a September 14 decree signed by Bishop Patricio Buzon and released on Friday, September 15, the diocese said the online broadcasting of...
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a man suspected to be a "salvage" or summary execution victim was found in a grassy area in Purok Lampirong, Barangay 2, this city, on Wednesday, September 13. Police identified the victim as Marlon Illustrisimo, 32, of Barangay Cubay, La Carlota City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a tricycle driver in a buy-bust operation in Purok Lampirong, Barangay 2, this city, on Wednesday, September 13. Police Capt. Glenn Montaño, head of Police Station 2, said that 60 grams of suspected shabu worth P408,000 were confiscated from John Paul...
