BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 (Western Visayas) said two police officers have tested positive for illegal drugs. In a media interview during his visit to the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) on Thursday, July 13, Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor, PRO-6 director, said they...
BACOLOD CITY – A 45-year-old drug pusher is back in jail after he was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Purok Riverside, Barangay Bata here on Thursday, July 13. Police identified the suspect as Hansel Magbanua, 45, of Barangay 2, this city. Operatives of the City Drug Enforcement Unit...
BACOLOD CITY – Sixteen persons were injured and 29 houses were destroyed in a fire in Purok Magnolia, Barangay 7 here on Thursday, July 6. TWENTY-NINE houses were destroyed in a fire in Barangay 7, Bacolod City late Thursday night, July 6. (Photo courtesy of Chamber Volunteer Fire Brigade) The...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government revoked the business permit and closed a junk shop on Mabini St., Barangay 25 here on Thursday, July 6, after the establishment yielded P14.7-million worth of stolen batteries owned by two telecommunications companies on June 29. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo...
BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – The city government is optimistic about attracting more investors and boosting local tourism amid record-high local revenues and tourist arrivals since the start of the year. In his State-of-the-City Address on Wednesday night, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said reforms and...
BACOLOD CITY – An elderly woman was sent back to jail after she was caught in possession of 26 grams of shabu worth P176,800 during a buy-bust in Barangay Handumanan here on Wednesday, July 5. A 66-year-old woman was arrested after police seized 26 grams of shabu worth P176,800 in a buy-bust...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here is awaiting the response of Mayor Jerry Treñas regarding his appeal to lift the executive order declaring Bacolod Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran person non-grata over the uncoordinated transfer of Badjaos from this city to Iloilo City...
BACOLOD CITY – A bomb threat forced passengers to disembark from a Cebu Pacific flight bound for Manila from this city at the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday night, July 2. Police Major Deejay Domingo, chief of the Bacolod-Silay Airport Police Station, said that...
BACOLOD CITY – A father and his son voluntarily surrendered to the police here on Thursday, June 29, a day after they were accused of killing their relative in Dumangas, Iloilo on Wednesday, June 28. A FATHER and son tagged in the killing of their relative in Dumangas, Iloilo on Wednesday, June...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested three persons for allegedly selling P15.1-million worth of stolen batteries from a telecommunications cell site to a junk shop on Mabini St. in Barangay 25 here on Thursday, June 29....
BACOLOD CITY – Fifteen grams of suspected shabu worth P100,000 were seized from a couple in a buy-bust operation at their rented house in Barangay 35 here on Thursday, June 29. A COUPLE was arrested with P100,000 worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 35, Bacolod City on...
BACOLOD CITY – A 37-year-old man is back in jail after police seized from him 15 grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000 in a buy-bust operation in Purok Kawayan, Barangay 28 here on Tuesday, June 27. Police identified the suspect as Lyle Infante of Barangay 28. A FORMER drug offender was...
