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By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) Police Station 8 considers the case of a Canadian national who murdered his Filipina wife before taking his own life inside their house as closed. Police Captain Glen Montaño, Police Station 8 commander, said they are already trying to get in touch with the …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A woman was stabbed to death by her Canadian husband and later killed himself inside their home at Villa Mikaela Subdivision in Bacolod City’s Barangay Singcang-Airport yesterday morning. Police identified the wife as 47-year-old Liezel Demerin-St. Jean, a call center agent and a native of Negros Occidental’s La Carlota City; while …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) has vowed improved services and power reliability for consumers if the proposed joint venture agreement (JVA) with the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) takes place. MORE Power President and chief executive officer Roel Castro questioned as to why there is negativity about privatization …

Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo “Arnie” Teves Jr., one of the alleged masterminds in the Pamplona massacre, would not be considered a fugitive, his legal counsel, Atty. Ferdinand Topacio said yesterday. “He cannot be considered a fugitive from justice. We have been participating in all the legal processes that we have been allowed to participate in,” Topacio …

  By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A local labor leader in Negros Occidental accused the New People’s Army (NPA) of harassment. Allan Gozon, chairman of the Democratic Alliance of Labor Sector (DALO), revealed yesterday morning to local media, that he received information that the NPA’s Special Partisan Unit had deployed a team in Bacolod City’s …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has officially dismissed former Isabela town treasurer Nenette Escarda from service for grave misconduct, serious dishonesty and malversation of public funds. Based on the decision signed on Monday, May 8, Escarda was perpetually disqualified from holding public office, barred from taking civil service examinations, …

By Mae Singuay The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) will try their best to solve cases of “dumping dead bodies” in the city after Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez did not give them a timeline. BCPO acting director, Colonel Noel Aliño said yesterday they will do their best so that these incidents will no longer happen. …

  By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and Vice Governor Jeffrey Ferrer threw out their support for the joint venture agreement (JVA) between the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) and MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power). During the company briefing at the Negros Residences in Bacolod City yesterday, Lacson …

 By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson called on other local government units (LGUs) to step up its biosecurity measures against the entry of African swine fever (ASF) in the province. Lacson said the LGUs must be vigilant as sellers and traders will always find ways to slip their products to …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) director, Police Colonel Noel Aliño strongly believes the persons, whose dumped bodies were recovered in the city’s Cabug and Felisa villages, were killed somewhere else. According to Aliño, the 10 city police station commanders said they do not have reports of missing persons in their …