Trike driver, lad nabbed for ‘shabu’

CAPIZ – A tricycle driver and a young man were arrested in two separate police antidrug operations. Dionesio Andres, 35, of Barangay 9, Roxas City...

Antique schools hold full face-to-face graduation rites

ANTIQUE – Over 47,000 public school students in the province will have full face-to-face graduation and moving-up ceremonies, according to the Department of Education...

Student yields P204K ‘shabu’

BACOLOD City – About P204,000 worth of suspected shabu was recovered from a college student in Silay City, Negros Occidental. Ramir Alimoot, 21, was nabbed...
Participants during one of the sessions of the digital literacy training conducted by the provincial government-run Negros Occidental Language and Information and Technology Center in Bacolod City on the first week of July. NOLITC PHOTO

Digital literacy training opens opportunities for Negrense PWDs

BACOLOD City – More employment opportunities have been opened to Negrense persons with disabilities (PWDs) through the digital literacy training conducted by the provincial...
Seven traffic enforcers in Silay City, Negros Occidental tested positive for illegal drug use during a random drug test on Monday, July 10. SILAY CITY PNP PHOTO

7 Silay traffic aides sacked for drug use

BACOLOD City – Seven traffic enforcers in Silay City, Negros Occidental were dismissed from the service after testing positive for illegal drugs. A total of...
A sport utility vehicle overturned in Jordan, Guimaras, early Tuesday morning, July 11. A 16-year-old passenger died while the driver was being treated. HERBEN JOHN L. GALLENTES FB PHOTO

SUV flips over in Guimaras 

GUIMARAS – A minor died and another person was injured after a sport utility vehicle (SUV) overturned in Barangay Alaguisoc, Jordan, Guimaras around 3...
The local government of Barbaza in Antique sets up African Swine Fever checkpoints in the municipal borders to monitor, control and manage the entry and movement in the municipality of all live swine pigs, pork and its by-products. FITS CENTER BARBAZA FB PHOTO

Barbaza bans swine, pork

ANTIQUE – The town of Barbaza strengthened its preventive measures against African Swine Fever (ASF) by prohibiting the entry of swine, pork and its...

Bacolod POSO urged to monitor parks

BACOLOD City – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez called on the city’s Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) to monitor all public parks. Photos circulating on...
Officers of the Aklan Philippine Drug Enforcement Unit and Numancia police station seized suspected shabu from drug suspect Manolo Cenon in a buy-bust operation in Numancia, Aklan on July 7. RODNEL AGUIRRE/RMN DYKR KALIBO PHOTO

Drug pushing suspect yields ‘shabu’

KALIBO, Aklan – Police rearrested a drug suspect who was released through a plea bargaining agreement. The 53-year-old Manolo Cenon of Barangay Tamalagon, Tangalan, Aklan...

Low-income household inflation plunges to 4.5% in Guimaras

GUIMARAS – The slower price movement on food and non-alcoholic beverages with 6.5 percent inflation pushed the overall inflation for the bottom 30 percent...