Pa, daughter held up in Villamonte
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Four suspects robbed a man and his daughter around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Capitol Heights, Barangay Villamonte.
The 62-year-old...
Wages for ‘summer jobbers’ released
BACOLOD City – The city government has started releasing the salaries of 1,955 “summer jobbers” from 61 barangays on Monday.
They were hired under the...
Metro Bacolod Man hacks brother
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – A manhunt operation was launched against a man who hacked his brother in Barangay Calayugan, Valencia, Negros Oriental.
Resident Gaudencio...
Elderly couple robbed, killed in Escalante
BY CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – A 40-year-old man allegedly robbed and killed two senior citizens in Barangay Balintawak, Escalante City, Negros Occidental.
Salcedo Lobaton of...
1 dead in jail riot
BY CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – In the Negros Occidental District Jail, a riot turned fatal for an inmate.
Nolan Baldomar, 34, of Barangay Mansilingan, sustained...
Buy-bust nets 2
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Two people were arrested in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Villamonte.
Police caught residents Remegio Besañes, 53, and nephew...
Pension house robbed, staff unharmed
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Three unidentified persons robbed a pension house in Barangay 7, leaving the staff unharmed.
A room boy and front desk...
Animal welfare ordinance mulled
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – The city government wants to make Bacolod an “animal-friendly city.”
Councilors Bartolome Orola and Wilson Gamboa Jr. conducted a public...
Gov’t must solve issues or we will – Colmenares
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – The government must resolve the issues in the sugar industry or else Makabayan will act on them.
Chairman Neri Colmenares...
‘Pasaway’ jailbirds transferred MBDJ Warden relieved
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Around 38 inmates of the Metro Bacolod District Jail-Special Intensive Care Area (MBDJ-SICA) were transferred to the Negros Occidental...