NegOcc private schools’ enrollment drops by 56%
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGABACOLOD City – Much fewer students enrolled in private schools in Negros Occidental for the reopening of classes this year.Data from...
CLO to probe big crowding at BCGC
BACOLOD City – What could have caused the unexpected big crowd of people that converged at the Bacolod City Government Center (BCGC) last week?
The...
NegOcc MGCQ extended ‘til Oct. 31
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental remains under Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ).
Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson issued an executive order yesterday extending...
Public transport resumes as Bacolod eases to GCQ
BACOLOD City – After an almost three-week suspension under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), public mass transportation resumes operation here with the city...
Bacolod’s new top cop urged to enforce health protocols
BACOLOD City – Mayor Evelio Leonardia’s first directive to the incoming acting city police director is to ensure that health protocols are enforced as the...
Monsoon rains flood parts of Bacolod City
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – No public storm warning signal was raised but an enhanced southwest monsoon brought moderate to occasional heavy rains...
NegOcc seeks weeklong repatriation freeze
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Local authorities in Negros Occidental are having a hard time managing the arrival of locally stranded individuals (LSIs)...
Bacolod gets new top cop; Biñas reassigned to Camp Crame
BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has a new director.
This developed after BCPO director Colonel Henry Biñas was relieved from his...
Ex-brgy ‘kap’ killed in Murcia shootout
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Jennifer Mercader, a suspected drug lord in Cebu, was killed yesterday in a shootout with policemen in Purok...
Seaman in ma’s hostage-taking faces string of raps
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Criminal charges are being readied against the 39-year-old seaman who held his own mother hostage in Barangay 4,...