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Communist leaders face raps over Antique, Negros offensives

ILOILO – The Philippine National Police – Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) announced the filing of criminal charges against Communist Party of the...
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SP OKs declaring biz tycoon Bacolod’s ‘adopted son’

BACOLOD City – A resolution declaring business tycoon Kevin L. Tan an adopted son of this city was passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP)...
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Antique mayors urged to prioritize upgrading slaughterhouses

ANTIQUE – Town mayors in this province were urged to prioritize the upgrading of their slaughterhouses to Double A or AA classification and earn...
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DSWD assures continuing support for Himamaylan conflict evacuees

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) central office assured Negros Occidental governor Eugenio Jose Lacson...
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Bacolod logs more cholera cases, sends water samples to RITM

BACOLOD City – The City Health Office (CHO) sent water samples to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) for laboratory examination after logging...
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan approves the construction of rainwater harvesting systems in identified Iloilo towns during its regular session on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 11. The provincial government has allotted P114,000 for each project. SANGGUNIAN IN ACTION PHOTO

8 Iloilo towns to get rainwater harvesting system

ILOILO – The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) gave its go signal for the implementation of the proposed rainwater harvesting projects in eight towns during its...

Top NPA leader in Negros killed in gun battle

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – A top leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Negros Occidental was killed following a gun...
Masked dancers during the Opening Ceremony of Masskara sa Panaad.

NegOcc mayors mull opening Panaad pavilions on regular basis

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – Following Monday’s opening of the 1st MassKara sa Panaad, mayors in Negros Occidental are studying the possibility...
Department of National Defense officer-in-charge Undersecretary Jose Faustino Jr. awards the Wounded Personnel Medal to a soldier of the Philippine Army’s 94th Infantry Battalion confined at a hospital in Bacolod City during his visit to Negros Occidental on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, with Brigadier General Inocencio Pasaporte (left), commander of 303rd Infantry Brigade. The troops engaged New People’s Army rebels in a series of encounters from Oct. 6 to 8 in the hinterlands of Himamaylan City that also claimed the lives of two soldiers and displaced thousands of families in the affected villages. 303RD INFANTRY BRIGADE, PHILIPPINE ARMY PHOTO

Army identifies casualties in Himamaylan clash

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – The Philippine Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade (303IBde) yesterday identified the casualties in last Saturday’s encounter with the...
The Iloilo City Police Office led by Police Colonel Leo T. Batiles holds a security dialogue with the Iloilo media on Monday morning, Oct. 10, following the attack on radio blocktime host Flo Hervias. AJ PALCULLO/PN

ICPO, media hold security dialogue

BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS ILOILO City – The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) held a security dialogue with media practitioners at the Iloilo City Police...