SANTA CATALINA, Ilocos Sur – A motorcycle rider was killed in a crash during a motor racing event on the diversion road in Barangay Paratong here on Sunday, Feb. 9. Police identified the victim as Richmond F. Pablico, 22, a resident of Barangay Balaleng Amianance, Bantay, Ilocos Sur....
The coastal town of Santa Catalina in Ilocos Sur will conduct a tsunami drill this month. The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said this will enable the people to know what to do when a tsunami occurs after a magnitude-8 earthquake. The local government released a route to...
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices in Region 1 (Ilocos) remain on heightened alert for the possible effects of the successive offshore earthquakes in Santa Catalina, Ilocos Sur in the past few days. PDRRMO-Ilocos Sur chief Rhon Arquelada said that...
SANTA CATALINA, Ilocos Sur – A Good Samaritan rescued a 14-year-old Grade 9 student from drowning in the sea of Barangay Paratong here on Saturday morning, September 14. Police Capt. Marlon Martinez, chief of police here, said the victim, Cris Asuncion, of Bantay, Ilocos Sur, was taken away...
BACOLOD CITY – At least 70 individuals fainted due to dehydration and exhaustion from the extreme heat during the Pakol Festival on Thursday, April 25, in Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental. Nurse Guian Jeif Anqui of the Santa Catalina Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office...
BACOLOD CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed in a clash with soldiers in Sitio Sug-ong, Barangay Milagrosa, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on Thursday, January 18. ONE communist rebel was killed in an encounter with soldiers in Barangay Milagrosa, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental...
SANTA CATALINA, Ilocos Sur – A barangay tanod or watchman drowned while swimming in a beach in Barangay Tamurong here on Sunday, October 1. Police identified the victim as Rafael Reyes Albano, 53. Investigation said the victim, a tanod of Zone 3, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, was recovered by rescuers...
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a New People’s Army (NPA) medic was found on Saturday, August 26, two days after an encounter with the Army 11th Infantry Battalion (IB) in Sitio Taleo, Barangay Milagrosa, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental, on August 24. The 11th IB said a K9 dog discovered the body of...
BACOLOD CITY – A soldier died in an encounter between the Army 11th Infantry Battalion (IB) and New People’s Army (NPA) in Sitio Taleo, Barangay Milagrosa, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on Thursday, August 24. The Army 3rd Infantry Division (ID) has yet to reveal the name of the slain...
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – Government operatives have seized personal items belonging to suspects in the March 4 murder of Gov. Roel Degamo and eight others in a sugar mill compound in Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on Thursday evening, March 30, the Joint Task Force Negros (JTFN) said. The...
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – Operatives of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) have seized an assault rifle with a sniper scope, three magazines, and thousands of bullets in the premises of a sugar mill in Santa Catalina town, Negros Oriental province....
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – Law enforcers are looking at possible “terrorist-related” activities in Negros Oriental following the confiscation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and components during a series of raids at a sugar mill in Santa Catalina town over the weekend. Col. Thomas...