Motorcycle hits BPO worker dead
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – A female employee of a business process outsourcing (BPO) company was hit by a motorcycle on Araneta...
Suspects yield P500K ‘shabu’
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA & MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Around P510,000 worth of suspected shabu was seized from two drug suspects at Estanzia...
Capiz seawaters still positive for red tide
CAPIZ – The seawaters of three towns in Capiz province were still positive for red tide toxins, based on Shellfish Bulletin No. 05 of...
7 nabbed in ‘drug den’
ROXAS City – Seven persons were arrested in an alleged drug den at a lodging house on Legazpi Street, Barangay 4, Roxas City.
The suspects were...
Solon calls for PHIVOLCS modernization
AKLAN – A bill seeking to modernize the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) was filed in the House of Representatives.
The proposed "PHIVOLCS Modernization Act",...
Ex-army stabbed to death
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO City – A retired Philippine Army was stabbed dead in Zone 15, Barangay Calaparan, Arevalo district.
Victim Joebert S. Bodiola, 63, and suspect...
Carles forms country’s biggest task force vs IUU fishing
ILOILO – To curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the local government unit (LGU) of Carles organized the largest Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF)...
Security forces, stakeholders collaborate for successful outreach program
ILOILO – The 82nd Infantry (Bantay Laya) Battalion under the operational control of the 301st Infantry (Bayanihan) Brigade of the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry...
NegOcc guv hopeful for PGN
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental governor Eugenio Jose Lacson remains hopeful about the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) bridge and its positive impact...
P68K ‘shabu’ seized in Pavia
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO – About P68,000 worth of suspected shabu was seized in an antidrug operation in Zone 6, Barangay Purok 4, Pavia,...