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...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod Traffic Authority Office has started a 45-day free parking experiment in a bid to address traffic congestion on Lacson St. here. The measure that started September 9 was in response to the request of businessmen to provide them with free parking to enable their...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office seized shabu worth a total of P1.2 million from two suspected drug pushers in buy-bust operations here on Tuesday and Thursday. POLICE seized P918,000 worth of suspected shabu from a 45-year-old drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government is planning to enter into a public-private partnership to establish a P2.2-billion centralized command system. THE construction of the Bacolod City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Command Center in Barangay Taculing is ongoing. (Photo courtesy of Disaster...
BACOLOD CITY – Officials of this city and Negros Occidental mourned the death of former Gov. Daniel “Bitay” Lacson Jr. Lacson peacefully passed away in his home surrounded by his family on Friday night, September 6, at the age of 77. Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson remembered him as a devoted public...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has proposed a P4.4-billion annual budget for 2025. MAYOR Albee Benitez leads the deliberation of Bacolod City’s proposed P4.4-billion annual budget for 2025 with department heads and councilors in Bangkok, Thailand last week. (Screengrab from Mayor...
BACOLOD CITY – A 38-year-old man was arrested by the police after holding his family hostage inside his sister’s house in Barangay Estefania here on Saturday afternoon, September 7. Police Capt. Francis Depasucat, head of Police Station 4, said the suspect, armed with two knives and a hammer,...
BACOLOD CITY – Police Col. Joeresty Coronica, Bacolod police director, dismissed reports that illegal drugs in Iloilo were sourced in this city. CORONICA (Glazyl Masculino) Coronica, reacting to allegations by Police Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido during a recent mega-panel hearing by the House of...
BACOLOD CITY – A 55-year-old woman died and a 26-year-old man was injured after they were gored by a male carabao in Hacienda Sayson, Barangay Felisa, this city, on Tuesday, September 3. A MALE carabao killed a woman and injured a 26-year-old man in Barangay Felisa, Bacolod City on Tuesday,...
