Couple busted in City Proper
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO City – Live-in partners were arrested in an antidrug operation on Ledesma Street, Barangay Gloria at around 1:10 a.m. on...
Teacher stabbed to death
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – A 61-year-old teacher was stabbed dead in Barangay Poblacion, Cauayan, Negros Occidental.
Nancy Oliverio succumbed to a stab...
Burning of P1.4-M eggs get mixed reactions
BACOLOD City – A business group here is not opposed to measures against avian influenza (AI), or bird flu, pursuant to the joint Executive...
Capiz logs more dengue cases
CAPIZ – The Capiz Provincial Health Office (PHO) logged 11 new cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever from Jan. 29 to Feb. 4, bringing the...
P500K ‘shabu’ seized in Oton
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO – Around P503,000 worth of suspected shabu was seized in a buy-bust operation of the Station Drug Enforcement Team of...
Farmers’ coops in Capiz get machinery
CAPIZ – Twenty harvesters valued at P35 million were distributed by the provincial government of Capiz to qualified farmers’ associations and cooperatives.
A combine harvester...
Construction worker survives murder attempt
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – A 30-year-old construction worker survived a murder attempt in Purok Tumpok, Barangay Taculing.
The victim, Ranel Tomias, was...
Five nabbed in Jaro drug bust
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO City – Five individuals were arrested in an antidrug operation in Barangay Benedicto, Jaro district around 1:15 a.m. on Feb....
P1.4-M worth of eggs seized
BACOLOD City – Around P1.4 million worth of eggs were intercepted at the BREDCO port, Reclamation Area here.
A total of 240,000 pieces, or 8,000...
Tribu Ica wins 30th Kali-Kalihan street dance competition
BACOLOD City – Tribu Ica of Sofronio Carmona Memorial National High School was declared the champion of the 30th Kali-Kalihan Harvest Festival street dance...