Cadiz Paralympian bags 3 Palaro golds
BACOLOD City – A Grade 4 legless boy from Barangay Zone 4, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental won three gold medals in swimming during the...
‘E-sabong’ sends 5 trike drivers to jail
BACOLOD City – Five tricycle drivers were arrested. They were caught betting on a live stream of an online sabong (cockfighting) in Barangay Ma-ao,...
P340K ‘shabu’ seized in Jaro
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO City – Five sachets of suspected shabu valued at around P340,000 were seized in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay...
Patnongon fire razes 2 houses
ANTIQUE – Two houses were destroyed by a fire in Barangay La Rioja, Patnongon town around 4 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 7.
The houses owned...
Boracay police pushes for 3-min crime response time
BORACAY – The Malay, Aklan municipal police station is working to implement a three-minute response time to crimes and any other eventualities in Boracay...
Central Negros clash kills rebel
BACOLOD City – A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed in a series of running gun battles in central Negros over the weekend.
Authorities...
Dumarao mayor offers reward for info on grenade lobbing
CAPIZ – Dumarao town’s Mayor Mateo Hachuela is offering a P100,000 reward to whoever could identify the person/s who lobbed a grenade outside his...
‘Rice for garbage’ helps reduce solid waste in Antique town
ANTIQUE – The municipality of Bugasong has reduced its daily generated waste by 50 percent through its “Garbage in a Bottle” initiative.
“Before, our daily...
Man drowns in Guimaras
GUIMARAS – A drowning victim was declared dead on arrival at the Dr. Catalino Gallego Nava Provincial Hospital in this province on Sunday, Aug....
1 dead, 1 hurt in stabbing
ILOILO City – A 31-year-old man was stabbed to death while his brother was wounded in Barangay PD Monfort North, Dumangas, Iloilo on Saturday...