BACOLOD CITY -- A total of 16 firecracker-related incidents, with no fatalities, were reported here and Negros Occidental during the holiday season. Fourteen were reported in the province from Dec. 21 to New Year's Day. Lt. Judesses Catalogo, spokesperson of the Negros Occidental police, said that...
THE car of Atty. Danny Pondevilla, general manager of the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco), who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen inside his vehicle parked on 16th Lacson St., Barangay 7, Bacolod City before dawn on Wednesday, Dec. 21. (Photo via Glazyl Masculino) BACOLOD CITY – A...
BACOLOD CITY - The local government here and Negros Occidental jointly imposed a total ban on all live domestic and wild birds, and their products, including eggs and manure from areas with reported cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) or bird flu. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here was installed as the new chairperson of the Regional Development Council (RDC) in Western Visayas. BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez, with his wife Dominique, takes his oath as the new chairperson of the Regional...
BACOLOD CITY – A vendor is back in jail after she was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 27 here on Thursday, Dec. 1. FIFTEEN grams of suspected shabu worth P102,000 were seized from a vendor in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 27, Bacolod City on Thursday, Dec. 1. (Photo courtesy...
At least 10,000 housing units will be constructed in Bacolod City, the target is to provide decent homes to informal settlers families (ISFs) in the area, the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 29. DHSUD Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar said the...
BACOLOD CITY – A couple and their son were injured in a fire that razed their house in Purok Kaingin 1, Barangay Punta Taytay here on Sunday, Nov. 27. A COUPLE and their son were injured in a fire that hit their house in Barangay Punta Taytay, Bacolod City last Sunday. (Photo courtesy of...
BACOLOD CITY – A suspected thief and drug pusher was gunned down in broad daylight in Purok Kingfisher A, Barangay 16 here on Friday, Nov. 25, a day after he allegedly sold fake shabu on Thursday, Nov. 24. AN alleged notorious thief was shot dead by a lone gunman on a motorcycle in Barangay 16,...
AWARD FOR NVC –The Negrense Volunteer for Change (NVC) Foundation led by its president Millie Kilayko (second from right) was conferred the Parangal Lingkod Sambayanan award during the special academic convocation for Traditional Awards of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) in Manila Tuesday,...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Council has approved an ordinance declaring chicken inasal as an important cultural property here. CHICKEN inasal is grilled over hot coals during the Chicken Inasal Festival in Bacolod City in 2019. (Glazyl Masculino) Authored by Councilor Em Ang, chairperson of the...
BACOLOD CITY – Police said the body of a newborn baby boy was found in a public cemetery here on Friday, Nov. 18. THE body of a newborn baby boy was found inside a public cemetery in Bacolod City on Friday, Nov. 18. (Photo courtesy of Llanee Zil Menardo) Major Ritchie Gohee, head of Police...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘’Albee’’ Benitez ordered the contractor and the Department of Public Services (DPS) on Friday, Nov. 18, to fast-track the collection of garbage here delayed by the damaged road leading to the sanitary landfill in Barangay Felisa. A GARBAGE truck...
