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  • Authorities visited the site following an encounter in Negros Occidental’s Toboso town on Sunday, April 19, 2026. The Philippine Army questioned claims circulating online that those killed in the clash were civilians, emphasizing that firearms were recovered at the scene and that the individuals involved were engaged in an armed confrontation. (K5 News FM Kabankalan 102.9 photo)

    Captured before executed? | Bullets found in multiple Toboso encounter sites

    By CESAR JOLITO III Investigators recovered spent cartridge cases from several areas identified as encounter sites following a military operation ...
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  • Personnel from the Philippine Army carry a casket bearing the remains of one of the 19 individuals slain during an encounter in Negros Occidental’s Toboso town on April 19, 2026. The Armed Forces of the Philippines earlier maintained that all 19 fatalities were combatants and insisted that a legitimate armed encounter took place. (3rd Infantry Division photo)

    Dead men to tell tales | Exhumation sought to aid CHR probe

    By CESAR JOLITO III Families of three individuals killed in an armed encounter in Negros Occidental’s Toboso town in April ...
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    Extreme weather, fewer school days | NIR schools endure most class suspensions due to storms

    By CESAR JOLITO III Public schools in the Negros Island Region (NIR) lost a total of 19 school days due ...
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  • The family of slain former student leader Vince Francis Dingding has decided not to claim his remains following the latest armed encounter, according to a handwritten letter posted by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict. (Facebook photo)

    Insurgency tears families apart | Slain student leader’s case highlights activism costs

      By CESAR JOLITO III Many young people eventually become estranged from their families once they start as activists or ...
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Captured before executed? | Bullets found in multiple Toboso encounter sites

May 23, 2026
By CESAR JOLITO III Investigators recovered spent cartridge cases from ...

Dead men to tell tales | Exhumation sought to aid CHR probe

May 22, 2026
By CESAR JOLITO III Families of three individuals killed in ...

Extreme weather, fewer school days | NIR schools endure most class suspensions due to storms

May 21, 2026
By CESAR JOLITO III Public schools in the Negros Island ...

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Gasataya condemns on-air rape joke

By CESAR JOLITO III Bacolod City Mayor Greg Gasataya has strongly condemned statements aired in a radio broadcast that allegedly ...
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May 23, 2026
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Police crime scene operatives carry the cadaver of one of the New People's Army (NPA) remnants in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental on April 20, 2026. National Task Force to End Local Communist Conflict Executive Director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres, Jr. says contrary to claims on the massacre of the 19 NPA members during the April 19 clash in Toboso, the communist insurgents were given every opportunity to surrender, but they refused. (Cheng Santillan photo)

NTF-ELCAC: Reds in Toboso clash given chance to surrender

Contrary to claims that the 19 New People’s Army (NPA) members were massacred during the April 19 clash in Toboso, ...
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May 23, 2026
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Photo courtesy of Cesar Jolito III

Lacson defends call for schools to monitor rebel recruitment

By CESAR JOLITO III Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson stood by his earlier statement urging school administrators to be ...
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May 23, 2026
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COMMUNITY

Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide to resume signature door-to-door ministry

On September 1, 2022, Jehovah’s Witnesses will resume their well-known door-to-door ministry. A special global campaign will be launched at ...
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August 31, 2022
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Bacolod City holds mass wedding

A total of 20 couples exchanged their vows in a mass wedding officiated by Mayor Alfredo “Albee” Benitez at the ...
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August 30, 2022
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SPORTS

The Bacolod Tay Tung High School Thunderbolts, representing Negros Island Region in the Palarong Pambansa 2026, hope to go one step further after finishing runner-up in the previous edition of the national games while still representing Western Visayas. (Jose Montalbo photo)

Tay Tung banners NIR bid in Palaro

By ADRIAN STEWART CO The Negros Island Region (NIR) will lean on the Bacolod Tay Tung High School Thunderbolts as ...
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May 23, 2026
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Negrense Bernadeth Pons attempts to score against the defense of Switzerland. (PNVF photo)

Pons, Rondina bow out in Pro Tour beach volley

By ADRIAN STEWART CO Negrense Bernadeth Pons and Cherry Rondina of Alas Pilipinas bowed out of the Volleyball World Beach ...
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May 23, 2026
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Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (left) takes a shot as San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle defends during Game 2 of the Western Conference finals. (Alonzo Adams / Imagn Images via Reuters)

Thunder, Spurs prepare for Game 3

It has been just two games, but the Western Conference finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder ...
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May 23, 2026
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OPINION

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Gaslighting the public: When narratives stop adding up

By Herman M. Lagon The strangest thing about last week’s Senate hullabaloo was not even the gunshots. Filipinos are no ...
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May 23, 2026
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The breath in Pentecost

By Fr. Roy Cimagala The gospel of the Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost reminds us of that part where ...
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May 23, 2026
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A crisis inside the Senate: What the Bato incident reveals about our politics today

By Ignacio R. Bunye The events that unfolded inside the Senate last week read like a scene lifted from a ...
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May 22, 2026
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IMPULSES

The right to speak

By Herman M. Lagon A public school teacher posts online about students squeezing themselves under a single electric fan during ...
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May 22, 2026
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Youngsters turn to AI chatbots for emotional support: survey

Nearly one in two young people in Europe have used AI chatbots to discuss intimate or personal matters, as the ...
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May 22, 2026
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