By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga San Carlos City’s most wanted individual was arrested along Ylagan Street on Saturday evening after his whereabouts was traced to the city’s Barangay 6. Police identified the suspect as 22-year-old Neiljay Cabatuan, a resident of the said barangay. San Carlos City police chief, Police Superintendent D’Artagnan Katalbas, Jr., who …
Monthly Archives: July 2018
2,512 sacks of garbage recovered from Bacolod City declogging operations
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) reported recovering a total 2,512 sacks of garbage following various declogging operations conducted across Bacolod City between January and July. According to CDRRMO cluster head, Executive Assistant Joemarie Vargas, among the debris collected including plastic bottles and rotting vegetation, which were …
PRO-6 relieves 5 Negros Occidental police chiefs
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Police Regional Office-6 (PRO-6) ordered the relief of five Negros Occidental police chiefs over the weekend. Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOPPO) spokesperson, Police Senior Inspector Aireen Cordua, identified four of the officials as Candoni municipal police chief, Police Senior Inspector Celjun Nemenio; Don Salvador Benedicto municipal police …
Campus Green Summit 2018 held in Handumanan
Handumanan National High School hosted Campus Green Summit 2018 last week, which gathered around 250 class officers and club leaders. Negros Occidental Provincial Environment and Management Office Public Information Officer Olive H. Seruelo served as guest speaker and discussed environmental advocacy, along with promoting “greening activities,” such as tree planting. A screening of “Mother Nature …
Garbage retrieved from the waters off Sipaway Island
As part of Provincial Environment Month, which ran throughout June, the Negros Occidental Provincial Environment Management Office, in partnership with the San Carlos City government and its City Environment Management Office, set up dive sites to conduct clean-up activities at the Dapdap area of Sipaway Island, located at Sitio Caimito in the city’s Barangay San …
State of the Nation Address 2018: Distrito expects Duterte to focus on economic policy
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Councilor Caesar Distrito yesterday said he expects President Rodrigo Duterte to focus on economic policy in today’s State of the Nation Address (SONA). In an interview with Watchmen Daily Journal, Distrito pointed out, Duterte needs to concentrate on introducing measures and policies that would protect the country …
Two from Region VI pass TESDA assessment for DPWH-BOE personnel
A total of 81 Department of Public Works and Highways-Bureau of Equipment (DPWH-BOE) heavy equipment operators and engineers passed the recent Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) competency assessment, with two from Region VI, or the Western Visayas. The two-day assessment took place last weekend in Taguig City. With regard to the assessment for …
AWOL cop, three others arrested in Brgy. 27
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A police officer who was absent without official leave (AWOL), along with three others, were recently arrested after City Drug Enforcement Unit (CDEU) operatives conducted a buy-bust operation at Purok Cheriza 2 in Barangay 27, Bacolod City. Police identified the suspects as Police Officer 1 (PO1) Cesar Caras, Jr. …
There’s loud and then there’s LOUD
“Obnoxious people talk too loudly to get attention… Their modus operandi to get attention is with volume rather than brain power.” –Author and CEO Dianna Booher Ventured out into the rain yesterday, praying there wouldn’t be too much flooding, and tried out a fairly new place in town with a promotion for unlimited food …
ASEAN School Games
Philippines clobbers Indonesia in U18 girls’ basketball By Jerome S. Galunan, Jr. The Philippines U18 girls’ basketball team recently destroyed Indonesia, 91-44, in the ongoing ASEAN School Games at the House of champion court, located in the Gem In Mall Cyberjaya in Selangor, Malaysia. Kent Jane Pastrana of Doña Montserrat Lopez Memorial High …