![“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")
Bacolod council OKs city- run college’s new charter
BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod approved on second and final reading the proposed ordinance revising the charter of the Bacolod City College (BCC).
BCC’s...
Negros Occ. ready for tourists but…
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental is ready to accommodate more tourists now that the world-famous Boracay Island has been closed.
The Provincial Tourism Office said...
E.B. Magalona mayor: Failure to hold session a ‘sabotage’
BACOLOD City – Mayor Marvin Malacon of E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental believes that he was “sabotaged.”
Malacon was referring to the Sangguniang Bayan’s (SB) failure...
WETLANDS DISAPPEARING
BY PRINCE GOLEZ and RUBY SILUBRICO
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte placed Boracay Island under a state of calamity.
Only four out of nine wetlands in...
La Salle Bacolod alum tops Bar Exam
BY PRINCE GOLEZ and ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – The news of him topping the 2017 Bar Exam came as a shock, according to University...
Restrictions on Boracay media coverage lifted
BORACAY – Restrictions on the media’s coverage of this island resort’s rehabilitation have been lifted.
Journalists are free go to anywhere in Boracay to gather...
Bridge collapses; NegOcc rep falls
MANILA – Rep. Alfredo “Albee” Benitez (Negros Occidental, 3rd District) was among those who fell in murky waters when a wooden footbridge collapsed in...
City may ban fowl supplier
ILOILO City – The supplier of the P3.5-million chicken dispersal project of the city government is reportedly having difficulty delivering fowls.
City Administrator Hernando Galvez...
Baciwa mulls water rate hike for ‘new project’
BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) is planning to increase its water rate from P208 to P248for the first 10 cubic...
Terrorist tag on Negros activists angers rebels
BACOLOD City – Calling local activists as terrorists is a campaign that aims to “sow terror among human rights defenders,” said the Apolinario Gatmaitan...