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...
BACOLOD CITY – A policeman was killed and five others were injured after his motorcycle sideswiped a tricycle in Hacienda Bernabe, Barangay Salvacion, Murcia, Negros Occidental on Monday, February 26. A TRICYCLE hits a concrete post after it was sideswiped by a policeman’s motorcycle in...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Western Visayas has turned over financial assistance amounting to P971,364 to more than 1,000 individuals displaced by the series of armed conflict in two localities in northern Negros Occidental last week. MORE than 1,000...
BACOLOD CITY – The 303rd Infantry Brigade awarded four government troops wounded in a series of encounters with the New People’s Army in Barangay Pinapugasan, Escalante City, Negros Occidental last week. COL. Victor Llapitan, deputy brigade commander of the Army 303rd Infantry Brigade,...
BACOLOD CITY – A police officer was killed in a motorcycle accident in Hacienda Reboton, Barangay Tinampa-an, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Friday night, February 23. RESCUERS respond to a motorcycle accident that killed a policeman in Barangay Tinampa-an, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on...
BACOLOD CITY – Classes were suspended and 172 families or 779 individuals were evacuated due to a series of clashes in Barangay Pinapugasan, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on February 21 and 22. The 79th Infantry Battalion said 28 families or 112 individuals fled Barangay Binaguiohan and 78...
BACOLOD CITY – The 79th Infantry Battalion launched precision airstrikes on Thursday night, February 22, against remnants of the dismantled Northern Negros Front (NNF)-D, following a series of clashes with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Pinapugasan, Escalante City, Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Three soldiers and a Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) Active Auxiliary (CAA) member were wounded in encounters in Sitio Mansulao, Barangay Pinapugasan, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on February 21 and 22. TROOPS seize high-powered firearms, subversive documents,...
BACOLOD CITY - The death toll in a road mishap involving livestock buyers in Mabinay, Negros Oriental rose to 15 with the death of another passenger on Wednesday night, February 21. FIFTEEN people were killed when a truck plunged off a cliff in Barangay Bulwang, Mabinay, Negros Oriental on...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 37-year-old laborer after he yielded suspected shabu and a gun in a search warrant operation in Hacienda Banilad, Barangay Nanca, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, February 21. A 37-year-old laborer was arrested by police after he yielded a gun and...
