City demolition team head files raps vs resident

BACOLOD City – The City Legal Office’s (CLO) enforcement team head Rey Demisana filed criminal charges against a resident for “light threat” and “resistance...
A personnel of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office allegedly hurt two minors aged 12 and 13 in Barangay 30, Bacolod City. The photo is a screengrab from closed-circuit television footage of the incident on the evening of July 10. GENELOU NATIBO-OC FACEBOOK

Cop faces raps for ‘hurting’ 2 minors

BACOLOD City – A personnel of the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) is facing a criminal complaint for violation of Republic Act 7610,...
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5 gov’t employees to answer for ‘missing’ vehicles

BACOLOD City – Five regular city hall employees were given show-cause orders for unaccounted government service vehicles issued to them in the previous years. Mayor...

4 nabbed for ‘shabu’

BACOLOD City – Four drug suspects were arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Aguisan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Police collared Eddie Oliverio Jr., 22,...

No total ban on cockfighting – BCPO

BACOLOD City – There is no total ban on cockfighting in this city, according to the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO). However, acting BCPO director...
The Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City declared an intra-facility outbreak following an increase in average daily cases of coronavirus disease 2019 recorded in the facility. PHILIPPINE UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PHOTO

CLMMRH under intra-facility COVID-19 outbreak 

BACOLOD City – The Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) in this city declared an intra-facility outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...

NegOcc gov’t willing to probe ‘sexual harassment’

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA  BACOLOD City – The provincial government of Negros Occidental will investigate an alleged sexual harassment by a capitol employee if...

Bacolod mayor halts issuance of special permit for cockfighting

BACOLOD City – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez ordered a temporary stop to the issuance of special permits for cockfighting after noticing that the number...
Brigadier General Archival Macala of the Police Regional Office 6 says Bacolod is an insurgency-free city. PROSIX RPIO

Bacolod is insurgency free – PRO-6

BACOLOD City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) confirmed that there are no identified "insurgency hotspots" in this city. Brigadier General Archival Macala, officer-in-charge...
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BTAO to implement road closure at Inasal Festival sites

BACOLOD City – The Bacolod Traffic Authority Office (BTAO) will implement road closures in two sites during the Bacolod Chicken Inasal Festival on May...