BACOLOD CITY – A 20-year-old pharmacy student of Riverside College here was crowned this year’s Sinigayan Queen during the 28th Sinigayan Festival in Sagay City, Negros Occidental on March 17. ROCHELLE Cabanyog was crowned Sinigayan Queen 2024 during the 28th Sinigayan Festival in Sagay City,...
BACOLOD CITY – The construction of a P55-million abattoir in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental has been approved. MAYOR Marvin Malacon (sixth from left) with members of the Western Visayas Regional Project Advisory Board (RPAB) during a deliberation at Negros Residences in Bacolod City on...
BACOLOD CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) leader surrendered to the 79th Infantry Battalion in Sagay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, March 17. MAP of Negros Occidental with Sagay City highlighted. The rebel returnee was a vice squad leader or intelligence officer of Squad 1, SDG Platoon...
BACOLOD CITY – A drug surrenderer was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Sitio Lupa, Barangay Guinhalaran, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Saturday, March 16. A DRUG surrenderer was nabbed with P176,800 worth of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Guinhalaran, Silay City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Two senior high school student-athletes died after their motorcycle crashed into a truck loaded with sugarcane in Hacienda Pangarap, Barangay Tabu, Ilog, Negros Occidental on Friday, March 15. The fatalities, whose names were withheld, were Grade 11 students aged 16 and 17....
The municipal government of Toboso in Negros Occidental recently turned over a newly constructed school building to the Amparado Elementary School in Barangay General Luna, Toboso. FORMER Mayor now Councilor Richard Jaojoco (right) and Lt. Col. Alfredo San Agustin Jr. (third from left), executive...
BACOLOD CITY – Police in Isabela, Negros Occidental will soon be staying in a standard Philippine National Police (PNP) building after 33 long years. MAYOR Irene Montilla (right), Police Col. Rainerio de Chavez (second from right), Negros Occidental police chief, and Police Capt. Ar-jay Dangarang...
BACOLOD CITY – The 79th Infantry Battalion dug up a communist arms cache in Sitio Mocabog, Barangay Washington, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Monday, March 11. TROOPS discovered a communist weapons cache in Barangay Washington, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Monday, March 11, days...
BACOLOD CITY – A job order employee of the municipal government of Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental was found dead in Sitio Balugo, Barangay Sangke on Monday morning, March 11. GRAPHIC from Mayor Daph V. Reliquias Facebook The victim was identified as 43-year-old Darrel Cayao of Barangay Asia. ...
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a suspected "salvage" or summary execution victim was found in a ravine in Purok Cobra, Barangay Igmaya-an, Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental on Saturday, March 9. THE body of a man was dumped in a ravine in Barangay Igmaya-an, Don Salvador Benedicto,...
BACOLOD CITY – A nine-year-old boy drowned in an irrigation canal in Purok Lopues, Barangay Dulao, Bago City, Negros Occidental on Friday, March 8. Police said the victim, accompanied by his mother, was taking a bath in the irrigation canal, when she went inside their house to attend the needs of...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a suspected member of a drug syndicate in a buy-bust operation in Crossing Tuguis, Barangay Buenavista Gibong, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental on Thursday, March 7. POLICE seized P340,000 worth of suspected shabu from a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay...