BACOLOD CITY – The number of New People’s Army combatants, including the Regional Strike Force in Negros Occidental, has dropped to 33 from 258 in 2019, Brig. Gen. Orlando Edralin, commander of the 303rd Infantry Brigade, said. Edralin said that the Central Negros 1, CN 2, and the Northern...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth P1 million from four persons, including two minors, in buy-bust operations in the cities of Kabankalan and Silay in Negros Occidental on March 4 and 5. SHABU worth P761,600 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Silay City, Negros Occidental....
BACOLOD CITY – Hundreds of people marked the first death anniversary of slain Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo on Monday, March 4. A Mass was offered to Degamo and the nine civilians who were killed in an attack at his residence in Pamplona, Negros Oriental last year. A motorcade joined by...
CEBU CITY – A year after the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, authorities are still hunting nine individuals who are believed to be involved in the gruesome crime. Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare said warrants of arrest have already been issued against the nine suspects who are...
BACOLOD CITY – A city government employee was shot dead outside his house in Carmela Valley, Barangay Zone 12-A, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday morning, March 5. POLICE secure the area where a city government employee was shot dead in Barangay Zone 12-A, Talisay City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Police nabbed a 58-year-old drug pusher and seized 163 grams of suspected shabu valued at P1.1 million in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Friday, March 1. A 58-year-old drug pusher was arrested and 163 grams of suspected shabu valued...
BACOLOD CITY – A bedridden 72-year-old woman died and her sister was injured in a fire that destroyed their house in Hacienda Luvina, Purok Malipayon, Barangay Bacong, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, February 29. A POLICE officer looks at a house in Barangay Bacong, Bago City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Two standard Philippine National Police (PNP) buildings with a total project cost of P35.5 million are being constructed in Negros Occidental. POLICE and city officials lead the groundbreaking of the new Bago City Police Station in Barangay Lag-asan, Bago City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – A total of 149 families or 372 individuals were displaced in the latest encounter between the military and the New People’s Army in Barangay Pinapugasan, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, February 27. TROOPS recovered high-powered New People’s Army firearms in...
BACOLOD CITY – Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental will soon have its own standard two-story Philippine National Police (PNP) building. City officials headed by Mayor Raymund Tongson and Vice Mayor Justin Gatuslao, Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, Police Regional Office (PRO)-Western Visayas chief;...
Three communist rebels died in a fierce gun battle that led to the Army troopers overrunning their camp in San Joaquin town of Iloilo early morning on Wednesday, Feb. 28, a military official said. Brig. Gen. Michael Samson, commander of the 301 st Brigade, said the operation also resulted in...
BACOLOD CITY – A 44-year-old Person with Disability (PWD) died in a fire that gutted his house in Sitio Bunga-Bunga, Barangay Nataban, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Monday afternoon, February 26. ONLY galvanized iron sheets are left of a house razed by a fire in an upland area in San...
