BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Jose Chubasco Cardenas ordered residents living on the foot of Kanlaon Volcano in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental to evacuate from their homes following an explosive eruption on Monday, Dec. 9. READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/12/9/kanlaon-volcano-s-alert-level-raised In a...
BACOLOD CITY – A 23-year-old motorcycle rider died after she was run over by a trailer truck in Hacienda Yee-on, Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Friday, Dec. 6. A MOTORCYCLE rider was run over by a trailer truck in Barangay Cabahug, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Friday,...
BACOLOD CITY – A 36-year-old police officer was shot and wounded by suspected New People’s Army rebels outside his house in Barangay Inayawan, Cauayan, Negros Occidental on Friday, Dec. 6. Police Lt. Col. Lowell Garinganao, Cauayan police chief, said the victim with a rank of corporal was about...
BACOLOD CITY – A 61-year-old rigger died after he was run over by a hauler truck loaded with sugarcane in a transloading station in Barangay Tapi, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, Dec. 5. Police withheld the name of the victim, a resident of Barangay Camansi. A 61-year-old...
BACOLOD CITY – A five-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool in a beach resort in Barangay Daga, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Police withheld the name of the victim but he is a resident of Barangay Tinampa-an, Cadiz City and a kindergarten pupil. A KINDERGARTEN pupil...
BACOLOD CITY – A couple was killed and their 18-year-old daughter was wounded after they were hacked by unidentified persons in Sitio Binalbagan, Barangay Masulog, La Castellana, Negros Occidental on Thursday, Dec. 5. A COUPLE was killed and their teenage daughter was wounded after they were...
BACOLOD CITY – Two nursing graduates from Negros Occidental placed eighth in the November 2024 Philippine Nurses Licensure Examination. NAKAR (via UNO-R) Mary Catherine Nakar, a resident of Kabankalan City, and Ellisha Leigh Perocho, from Bago City, both obtained a 91 percent rating in the board...
BACOLOD CITY – A security guard killed his two daughters then himself in Barangay Buntis, Bacong, Negros Oriental on Thursday morning, Dec. 5. Police Lt. Stephen Polinar, spokesperson of the Negros Oriental police, said that the 30-year-old suspect went to the house of his wife to ask...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental provincial board unanimously approved the province’s proposed P6.4-billion budget for next year during its regular session on Tuesday, Dec. 3. The expenditure is 18.8 percent higher by P1.022 billion than last year’s P5.4 billion. LACSON (FB) Gov. Eugenio...
BACOLOD CITY – A 39-year-old businessman was gunned down at the parking lot of his computer store in Barangay 40 here on Tuesday, Dec. 3. The victim was identified as Michael Garcia, 39, of Barangay 40. A BUSINESSMAN was shot dead in the parking lot of his computer store in...
BACOLOD CITY – A 20-year-old single mother was recently crowned as the first-ever Miss Universe Philippines-Negros Occidental. Franches Anne Laquibla, representing the municipality of Pontevedra, bested 20 other candidates during the coronation at the SMX Convention Center here. LAQUIBLA (Photo...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized shabu and marijuana worth more than P39 million and 1,130 drug suspects were arrested in Negros Occidental from Jan. 1 to Nov. 25 this year. NOCCPO grandstand (Glazyl Masculino) Recovered from the suspects were 5.8 kilos of suspected shabu and 1.5 kilos of...
