Three separate anti-drug operations led to the arrest of five suspects and the confiscation of P2.35 million worth of suspected shabu, the Bacolod City Police Office said in a report yesterday. At almost 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 8, a buy-bust at the Old Bacolod Airport runway in Barangay Singcang-Airport caused the arrest of suspects …
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Guiao: Rain or Shine benefiting from close games
By ADRIAN STEWART CO The Rain or Shine Elasto Painters are gaining much-needed experience from winning close games ahead of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup playoffs. According to Painters head coach Joseller “Yeng” Guiao, they needed games like their 119-112 win over TNT Tropang Giga on January 5, to toughen up his youth-laden roster. “Maganda …
Ilonggo Thirdy Ravena helps San-en past Nagoya
By ADRIAN STEWART CO Ilonggo Ferdinand “Thirdy” Ravena III delivered another solid offensive game as the San-en NeoPhoenix repeated over the Nagoya Diamond Dolphins, 80-74, in the Japan B.League Division 1 at the Dolphins Arena. The Gilas Pilipinas mainstay finished with 13 points on 6-of-13 shooting to go with seven assists, three rebounds and …
Bea de Leon looks forward to new challenge with Creamline
In joining the Creamline Cool Smashers, veteran middle blocker Bea de Leon is embracing a “different kind of pressure” even as she also admits to feeling like a rookie once again. Creamline confirmed over the weekend that they had signed De Leon and Denden Lazaro-Revilla from the Choco Mucho Flying Titans, a move that …
Pag-IBIG gains FFW support as workers’ benefits set to increase under new monthly rates in 2024
PAG-IBIG Fund secured the support of the Federation of Free Workers (FFW), one of the country’s top labor organizations, in its plan to increase the nearly four-decade old mandatory monthly savings rate for both members and their employers starting January 2024, officials stated Monday, Jan. 8. The FFW, in its letter to Pag-IBIG Fund, cited …
‘Mitigate El Niño’: Lacson still wary over El Niño threat in NegOcc
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Negros Occidental provincial government braces for the continued threat of the El Niño phenomenon in the next few months, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday. Lacson said he saw a need to maximize water availability, as 60 percent of the province’s farmlands are already irrigated. He added that local farmers have realized how important it …
Power advocate group slams NGCP over recent blackouts
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A local power advocate group slammed the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) yesterday over the recent blackouts and rotating power outages experienced in Western Visayas. Power Watch Negros secretary-general Wennie Sancho said the NGCP should have already learned its lesson from the widespread blackouts experienced in late …
JOs, CoS comprise over half of drug-positive capitol employees
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said yesterday morning that more than half of the 27 provincial capitol employees who tested positive for illegal drugs were job order (JO) and contract of service (CoS) employees. A small percentage were reported to be regular employees. In a press conference yesterday, Lacson said …
Bacolod City to stage ‘bigger’ Bacolaodiat Festival
Bacolod City will hold the Bacolaodiat Festival, one of the country’s biggest Chinese New Year celebrations, from February 9 to 11, with the main festival site returning to the Lacson Tourism Strip. Poised to be the grandest so far, the staging of this festivity, which will usher in the Year of the Wood Dragon, …
Bacolod City logs 40.52% decrease in index crimes
The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has reported an average decrease of 40.52 percent in eight focus crimes from January 1 to December 31, 2023, compared to the cases recorded in the same period in 2022. These include murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft, carnapping, and motorcycle theft, also known as index crimes or crimes against …