Guihulngan City officials has commended the 62nd Infantry Battalion and the police for the recent arrest of two top leaders of the New People’s Army linked to the ambush-slay of six policemen and an Army soldier in the city hinterland barangays.
The Canlaon District Hospital in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental has temporarily shut down after a staff member had come into contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019.
About P750,000 worth of suspected shabu was seized from the top 10 high value target in Western Visayas during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Estefania, Bacolod City, at about 3:15 p.m. Sunday.
Bacolod Rep. Greg Gatayaya requested the Bacolod City Police Office yesterday to investigate the source of fake news that his office will be releasing the second tranche of financial assistance to the LGBT sector.
Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson has requested a 7-day moratorium on the entry of Overseas Filipino Workers and Locally Stranded Individuals into Negros Occidental from October 1 to 7 in order to give the province time to prepare and decongest its COVID-19 quarantine facilities.
Bacolod City Administrator Em Ang clarified yesterday that the city government has no intension to close the major markets for three days once the market vendors submit themselves for swab testing.
P/Col. Henry Biñas was relieved from his post as director of the Bacolod City Police Office, effective yesterday, and transferred to the Philippine National Police-Drug Enforcement Group in Camp Crame as chief of directorial staff.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia asked Health Secretary Francisco Duque yesterday to de-escalate Bacolod City’s quarantine status from Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine to the less stringent General Community Quarantine effective Thursday.
A High Value Individual (HVI) drug personality from Region 7 died in a shoot-out with policemen and operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency during a manhunt operation in Brgy. Minoyan, Murcia, Negros Occidental, 7:30 a.m. yesterday.
If there’s anything good that came from living in a country where the one and only strategy against the coronavirus is to basically rotate through different quarantine statuses while waiting for a vaccine, many of us have been forced to rethink our lifestyles and priorities over the past six months as we endured the world’s strictest and longest lockdown.
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade strongly condemned the killing spree of innocent civilians carried out and admitted by the New People’s Army in Negros Occidental. These acts of violence are not only abhorrent, but also a
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Christian Artists National Various Arts Society (CANVAS) in partnership with the Bacolod AI Artists Association and the Bacolod City Public Library, held an art show, music concert, and poetry reading in celebration of Mother’s day
ASSISTANCE. Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson distributed a total of P415,000 cash assistance to 47 families affected by recent fire incidents in Negros Occidental, and 17 Child Development Workers from various local government units, who retired from last year, at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall in Bacolod City.* Capitol PIO photo
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN The month long anti-illegal operations in Negros Occidental, including the highly urbanized Bacolod City, has led to the arrest 246 persons, according to reports of the Police Regional Office 6. Among the arrested suspects, a total
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO “A mother is the heartbeat of her home, the pulse of her family’s existence.” In honor of all mothers, a group art exhibit titled “Handog kay Nanay” opened at the second level of Robinson’s Place Bacolod
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN A former head of the National Bureau of Investigation Anti-Terrorism Division is now leading the NBI Bacolod District Office. Manuel Fayre Jr. replaced Atty. Renoir Baldovino, who had been assigned in Bacolod City for more than
