BACOLOD CITY – Nine persons were rescued after they were sighted by fishermen floating in the waters off Barangays Tomongtong and Gahit in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Saturday, Feb. 4. Chief Petty Officer James Comeros, sub-station commander of Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)-Victorias,...
BACOLOD CITY – Two drug pushers were arrested and 26 grams of suspected shabu worth P176,800 were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 2, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Jan. 29. TWENTY-six grams of suspected shabu worth P176,800 were seized from two individuals in a...
BACOLOD CITY – Two teenage cousins died after their motorcycle crashed into a parked truck loaded with sugarcane pulp in Hacienda Baga-as, Barangay Efigenio, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Jan. 29. Police identified the victims as Nataniel Conde, 18, and Alvin Bendoy, 19, residents of...
BACOLOD CITY - A top military official in the Visayas has directed the Army in Negros island to step up their operations against the New People’s Army (NPA) to prevent them from doing more atrocities. Lt. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, commander of Army 3rd Infantry Division (ID) and acting commander of...
BACOLOD CITY -- A couple was arrested after they allegedly yielded 52 grams of shabu worth P353,600 during a buy-bust operation at Sitio Pulo, Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Arrested were Ma. Chin-Chin Grace Cuadra, and her live-in partner Jeffrey Fuentes,...
BACOLOD CITY -- The city government of Sipalay in Negros Occidental, through its Bantay Dagat, released a new batch of sea turtle hatchlings at Poblacion beach on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Bantay Dagat personnel release 45 hatchlings of Olive Ridley sea turtles at Poblacion beach in Sipalay City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – The New People’s Army (NPA) has claimed responsibility for the killing of two men in Negros Occidental recently. Police identified the victims as farmer Silas Granada, 65, of Barangay Pinggot, Ilog municipality, and Jose Rammel Europa, 47, of Barangay Camandag, La Castellana...
BACOLOD CITY -- A minor and his friend were brutally killed in Purok Pili, Barangay 6, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Friday, Jan. 27. One of the victims was identified by the Kabankalan Police as Ervin Colorado, 22, while the name of the 16-year-old boy victim was withheld. Both were...
BACOLOD CITY – A company is planning to establish a factory that will produce craft chocolates from a rare variety of locally grown cacao plant in Negros Occidental. CHLOE Doutre Roussel, a cacao and chocolate connoisseur from France, and Ricardo Dominic Lopez, general manager of CY & Sons...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Office 6 said on Friday, Jan. 27, that the newly-completed road had provided access to two far-flung barangays in Ilog, Negros Occidental. Aside from the road project, a building was also constructed for the use of the indigenous peoples...
BACOLOD CITY -- A motorcycle rider died while two others were wounded after a multiple vehicular collision at Crossing Bagong Dalan, Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Rescuers and police respond to a multiple vehicular collision in Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City,...
BACOLOD CITY - A man died after a truck hit the carabao-pulled cart he was riding in an accident at Hacienda Bibiana, Barangay E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The victim was identified as Ceasar Jaena, 42, of Barangay E. Lopez. Executive Master Sgt. Joemarie Lachica,...
