![“The Pharmally case... there are 46 respondents [in our complaint], kaya medyo matagal. And many of them have become invisible. Para bang they're trying to evade the jurisdiction of this body,” says Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla.](https://www.panaynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/plunder_copy_resized_resized-218x150.jpg "Ombudsman presses P11-B Pharmally plunder case But 23 respondents missing— Remulla")
Man shoots 16-year-old stepdaughter over phone
ILOILO – A man shot his 16-year-old stepdaughter in Barangay Buntalan, Maasin town.
The 38-year-old Jerold Guillermo quickly left their house after the shooting past...
During MassKara, Bacolod may ban glass bottles, sharp sticks
BACOLOD City – Glass-bottled soda and beer and pointed barbecue sticks may soon be banned during the MassKara Festival and other festivals in the...
Proposed ordinance bans plastic straws, stirrers
ILOILO City – Citing the “damaging effects” to the environment of the indiscriminate use and disposal of plastic straws and stirrers, Councilor Lady Julie...
Bacolod’s urban poor invade housing project
BY RANIE AZUE and MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Over a thousand members of the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap in Negros Island (Kadamay-Negros) stormed a...
LTFRB: ‘Help us catch violators’; fare hike takes effect today
ILOILO City – The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Region 6 urged the public to report jeepney drivers who impose the new...
Stay only in compliant resorts, says DOT
ILOILO City – When Boracay Island reopens on Oct. 26 tourists should stay only in resorts and hotels adhering to government rules and regulations,...
Bacolod plaza guards vs sex workers mulled
BACOLOD City – The General Services Office (GSO) plans to assign 18 guards to keep commercial sex workers off the public plaza.
The guards, who...
PRO-6 chief accused of spreading ‘false info’
ILOILO City – Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) director Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao should “refrain from sowing false information” about a protest organized on...
P750 daily wage to end ‘dead season’ – NSFW
BACOLOD City – Extreme poverty hits sugarcane plantation workers in August of every year during “tiempo muerto,” worsened this year by the tax reform law,...
4 Ilonggos die fighting American invaders
ILOILO City – During the Philippine-American War at the turn of the 20th century, four Ilonggo army officers, among many others, sacrificed their lives...