BACOLOD CITY – Filipino-Chinese tycoon Lucio L. Co has been named adopted son and honorary mayor here as the city celebrated the 19th Bacolaodiat Festival on Saturday, February 10. CAMILLE Clarisse Co Lao (third from left) and husband, Michael Stephen Lao (second from left), accept a...
BACOLOD CITY – More than 100 fake Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) identification (ID) cards were discovered in this city, said Alma Gustilo, officer-in-charge of the Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD), based on their recent monitoring. Gustilo said they will have to check if...
BACOLOD CITY – A 50-year-old barangay official was killed after his motorcycle rammed a coconut tree on Circumferential Road in Barangay Taculing here on Friday, February 9. A BARANGAY kagawad died after his motorcycle crashed into a coconut tree in Bacolod City on February 9. (Photo...
BACOLOD CITY – Thirteen houses were hit by a fire on San Juan St., Purok Kagaykay, Barangay 2 here on Wednesday, February 7. FIREMEN put out a fire in Barangay 2, Bacolod City on Wednesday, February 7. (Photo courtesy of BFP-Bacolod) According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacolod,...
BACOLOD CITY – A woman died and her two companions were injured after they were hit by a speeding pick-up truck in Barangay Pahanocoy here on Tuesday night, February 6. Police withheld the names of the 53-year-old fatality and the injured aged 21 and 22. Police Capt. Melvin Mercado, head of...
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BACOLOD CITY – The National Bureau of Investigation-Bacolod arrested a 25-year-old graphics artist for printing fake business permits in an entrapment operation in a shopping mall here on Saturday, February 3. A GRAPHIC artist prints a fake business permit during an entrapment operation in...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has ordered the recall of around 12,000 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) identification cards here effective immediately. BENITEZ (Glazyl Masculino) In a press briefing on Monday, February 5, Mayor Albee Benitez said that existing PWD IDs have no QR code yet,...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 30-year-old drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Purok Roadside 2, Barangay Alijis here on Saturday, February 3. The suspect yielded 95 grams of suspected shabu worth P646,000. Police Capt. Dax Santillan, head of Police Station 6, said the operation was led...
BACOLOD CITY – About 105 grams of suspected shabu worth P714,000 were seized from a 45-year-old drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Purok Hollow Blocks, Barangay Singcang-Airport here on Thursday, February 1. A 45-year-old drug pusher was arrested by police in a buy-bust operation in Barangay...
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...
