BACOLOD CITY – A 14-story residential tower under construction within the 34-hectare township of Upper East Megaworld in Barangay 41 here was hit by a fire on Thursday, February 1. FIREMEN battle a blaze at Upper East Megaworld in Barangay 41, Bacolod City on Thursday, February 1. (Photo...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) will deploy 495 personnel to secure this year’s Bacolaodiat Festival here beginning February 4. BACOLAODIAT Inc. Vice President Bobby Cordova, Jennifer Gochangco-Ong, Oddette Ong-Gomez, festival chairman John Stephen Sy, and Councilor Jason...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod recorded a 24.10 percent decrease in fire incidents from 336 in 2022 to 255 in 2023. BFP-Bacolod Fire Chief Insp. Stephen Jardeleza, city fire marshal, said that residential topped the list of structural fires last year with 94, up...
BACOLOD CITY – Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has committed to give P20 million for this city. SEN. Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. and Bacolod City officials headed by Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez lead the payout of the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers...
BACOLOD CITY – Fifteen thousand individuals here have no birth certificates and the Civil Registrar’s Office is eyeing to register them. Hermilo Pa-oyon, city civil registrar, said that they were among the more than 19,000 individuals who have submitted their documents for verification based on...
BACOLOD CITY – A drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Purok Sigay, Barangay Singcang-Airport here on Sunday, January 28, five years after he was first apprehended for a drug offense in 2019. POLICE nabbed a suspected drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay...
BACOLOD CITY – Five suspected drug pushers were arrested in buy-bust operations here that yielded a total of P850,000 worth of shabu on Thursday and Friday. The Police Drug Enforcement Group-Special Operations Unit (PDEG-SOU-Western Visayas) arrested four persons in Zone 4, Villa Esperanza,...
BACOLOD CITY – An 11-year-old boy drowned in a stream in Purok Seawall, Barangay Punta Taytay here on Tuesday, January 23. RESCUERS attempt to revive a boy who drowned in a stream in Bacolod City on Tuesday, January 23. (Police photo) Police Capt. Michael Tuburan, head of Police...
BACOLOD CITY – A 35-year-old bodyguard and his 18-year-old companion were gunned down on Circumferential Road in Barangay Alijis here on Thursday night, January 25. POLICE cordon the area where two persons were shot dead in Barangay Alijis, Bacolod City on Thursday, January 25. (Photo courtesy of...
BACOLOD CITY – A campaign seeking to withdraw signatures for the People’s Initiative (PI) will be launched here on Saturday, January 27. Atty. Cesar Beloria Jr., an advocate on educating people about the PI, is calling for the withdrawal of these signatures, as he believed that most people who...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) paid tribute to the bravery of the SAF 44 on Thursday, January 25. POLICE Col. Leo Pamittan, Negros Occidental police director, leads the Day of National Remembrance for SAF 44 at the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government will build more than 5,000 housing units in Barangays Banago and Estefania here starting next month. MAYOR Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez (right) and Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) sign a...
