BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez recently announced that the city government has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Grab Philippines to track the movement of city government vehicles. MAYOR Alfredo Benitez meets Grab Western Visayas director Jocelyn Yoshida (center) and...
BACOLOD CITY – Four houses were destroyed in a fire that hit a residential area on Neptune St., Purok Paho, Fuentebella, Barangay Taculing here on Tuesday, September 26. Three houses were totally damaged while another was partially damaged, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said. Damage to...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has proposed a P3.6-billion budget for 2024. Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez, in a press briefing at the Bacolod City Government Center on Monday, September 25, said that they have finished budget deliberations with all the department heads last week....
The Negros Trade Fair returns to the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City today, Sept. 26, and will last until Oct. 1, 2023. Organized by the Association of Negros Producers (ANP), this year's event will focus on the theme "Amuma," a Hiligaynon term signifying "to nurture, foster, and care...
BACOLOD CITY – A Chinese-Korean electric vehicle firm revealed on Friday, September 22, that 36 units of electric jeepneys (e-jeepneys) from China are expected to arrive here by the end of November. E-Future Motors Philippines (PH) Inc. received an order from their first client in the Philippines...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a fisherman in a buy-bust operation in Purok Makawiwili, Barangay Punta Taytay here on Friday, September 22. POLICE arrested a fisherman in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Punta Taytay, Bacolod City on Friday, September 22. (Photo courtesy of Llanee Zil...
The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has reassigned seven personnel with relatives running in this year’s barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. Police Lt. Col. Ronnie Brillo, BCPO deputy director for operations, said that two commissioned officers and five non-commissioned police officers...
BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that four candidates in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) here next month have withdrawn their candidacies. Kathrina Trinio-Caña, head of Comelec-Bacolod, said these candidates – a barangay and SK...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here said on Tuesday, September 19, that a Dutch company has expressed interest in helping address flooding in this city. Benitez, chairman of the Regional Development Council (RDC)-Western Visayas, along with some members of the city...
BACOLOD CITY – The Commission on Elections has allowed 1,279 Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) in two jails here to vote in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 30. Four-hundred two are from the Metro Bacolod District Jail (MBDJ)-Special Intensive Care Area (SICA) in...
BACOLOD CITY – The mother of a Person Deprived of Liberty (PDL) received a new house from the Metro Bacolod District Jail-Male Dormitory Annex (MBDJ-MDA) in Barangay Handumanan here on Friday, September 15. JAIL Chief Supt. Simeon Dolojo Jr. (third from left), director of BJMP-Western Visayas,...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government recently released a one-time fuel subsidy of P1,000 to tricycle drivers here to enable them to cope with oil price hikes. TRICYCLE drivers receive a one-time fuel subsidy amounting to P1,000 from the city government led by Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’...
