BACOLOD CITY – After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Tanduay Rum Festival returns next month, as a prelude to the MassKara Festival here in October. LUCIO Tan III, president and chief operating officer of Tanduay Distillers Inc. and vice chairman of the Lucio Tan Group (LTG), speaks...
BACOLOD CITY – They will now set out to hunt their former comrades in the communist movement. Two former combatants of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPM-P/RPA-ABB) in Negros Occidental have become soldiers and are now...
BACOLOD CITY – A chemical spill hit Barangay 39 here Thursday, July 14. A TEAM from the Negros Prawn Cooperative obtains samples of the chemical for laboratory testing. (Photo courtesy of the Bacolod City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office) The city government is now probing the...
BACOLOD CITY -- A former Agrarian Reform Beneficiary (ARB) leader was shot dead by a lone gunman on Osmena Ave., Barangay 5, Victorias City, Negros Occidental Wednesday, July 13. POLICE cordon off the area in Barangay 5, Victorias City, Negros Occidental where a former ARB leader was shot dead...
BACOLOD CITY -- People were roused from their sleep as a magnitude-3.2 earthquake jolted this city before dawn Thursday, July 14. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the epicenter of the quake at 2:12 a.m. was located six kilometers northwest here. The quake was...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez here has refused to pay the P98-million balance for Covid-19 vaccines bought by his predecessor Evelio Leonardia in 2021. BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez (right) during a recent press briefing at the Bacolod City Government Center,...
BACOLOD CITY -- A young woman listed as top 2 in the priority list of Police Station 5 was arrested in a buy-bust operation at Bangga Bagul, Barangay Granada here on Sunday night, July 10, after the raiders found 77 grams of shabu worth P510,000 in her possession. A young woman was arrested after...
A 58-year-old suspected drug pusher (right) yields P81,600 worth of shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City Wednesday, July 6. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office) BACOLOD CITY – A suspected drug pusher was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay...
A POLICE operative (seated right) conducts an inventory of the 415 grams of suspected shabu worth P2,822,000 seized from a woman (seated left) in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Singcang-Airport, Bacolod City Tuesday, July 5. (Photo courtesy of RDEU-Western Visayas) BACOLOD CITY – Suspected...
BACOLOD CITY - A man possessing 60 grams of shabu worth P480,000 was arrested in a cemetery in Barangay Bata here on Saturday, July 2. A man was arrested in a buy-bust operation inside a private cemetery in Barangay Bata, Bacolod City, with the confiscation of P408,000 worth of suspected shabu...
LIVESTOCK raiser Geory Adeva was shot dead by a lone gunman on a motorcycle in Barangay 5, Bacolod City Saturday, July 2. (Photo courtesy of Bacolod City Police Office) BACOLOD CITY – A 52-year-old livestock raiser was gunned down on 18th St., Barangay 5 here by an unidentified man onboard a...
BACOLOD CITY - Change is indeed coming as former Negros Occidental Third District Rep. Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez revealed his plans in his first 100 days in office and future plans for the city during his inauguration rites on Friday, July 1. Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez takes...
