BACOLOD CITY – This city and three other local government units in Negros Occidental suspended face-to-face classes on Thursday, March 6, and Friday, March 7, due to extreme heat. Mayor Albee Benitez issued an executive order late Thursday morning cancelling in-person classes from pre-school...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Health Office has recorded the first suspected dengue fatality here this year, a 64-year-old man from Barangay Alijis. PHOTO via Africa CDC Dr. Grace Tan, head of the CHO-Environmental Sanitation Division, said the patient had undocumented fever for four days and...
BACOLOD CITY – A 38-year-old man plunged to his death into a canal while driving a bicycle in Purok Hermilinda, Barangay Mansilingan here on Tuesday, March 4. A 38-year-old man plunged to his death into a canal while riding a bicycle in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City on Tuesday, March 4....
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has signed an agreement with private company High Data Infra Inc. to create and develop a P2.1-billion super city here. MAYOR Albee Benitez and High Data Infra Inc. representative Danny Fernandez (fourth from left) sign a Build-Transfer-Maintain Agreement...
BACOLOD CITY – A multi-million state-of-the-art medical building was inaugurated at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos here on Tuesday, March 4. DR. Olivia Villaflores Yanson (center), accompanied by son Leo Rey (second from right) and daughter Ginnette Yanson-Dumancas (left) and Rev....
BACOLOD CITY – The provincial government of Negros Occidental officially launched the 29th edition of the Panaad sa Negros Festival here on Friday, Feb. 28. THE provincial government of Negros Occidental officially launched the 29th Panaad sa Negros Festival at the Provincial Capitol and Lagoon...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez here has sought the prompt appointment of officers-in-charge (OICs) for Negros Island Region (NIR) offices. MAYOR Albee Benitez with Negros Occidental Rep. Mercedes Alvarez-Lansang lead the Committee on Visayas Development meeting with various agencies at...
BACOLOD CITY – A P300-million allocation for the construction of three floodgates here, initially planned under the General Appropriations Act this year, was scrapped. BENITEZ (Glazyl Masculino) Mayor Albee Benitez said that he has raised the issue with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Benitez...
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco (third from left) meets with key officials at the DOT Central Office in Makati City on February 27, 2025, to discuss the Philippines' hosting of Terra Madre Asia Pacific 2025. With her are (from left) Network Coordinator Elena Aniere,...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has started the demolition of the old site of the Manokan Country in Barangay 12 here this week, 40 years after it was built in the 1980s. MANOKAN Country in Barangay 12, Bacolod City is being demolished to give way to the P4-billion redevelopment project....
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez has proposed allowing Kanlaon Volcano evacuees stay at unoccupied housing units in Barangay Felisa here for the meantime. LA Castellana, Negros Occidental Mayor Rhummyla Nicor-Mangilimutan (seated left) meets Bacolod Mayor Albee Benitez at the Bacolod City...
BACOLOD CITY – A 19-year-old man allegedly stabbed his 66-year-old grandmother to death in their house in Barangay Pahanocoy here on Sunday, Feb. 23. Police Capt. Greeky Cayao, head of Police Station 8, said the suspect witnessed an altercation between his mother and grandmother. The suspect got...
