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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 …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has released an executive order (EO) on guidelines for the voluntary wearing of face masks in the province, but with several exceptions. Based on EO No. 23-15 released yesterday morning, Lacson is encouraging the elderly, individuals with comorbidities and immunocompromised, pregnant women, unvaccinated individuals, …

  By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A former cadre of the New People’s Army (NPA) criticized various transport groups who will join the transport strike in Bacolod City today and called for the arrest of the strike organizers. According to Jeffrey Celis, the protest action and the transport strike by local transport groups is a form of “economic …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The local business community in Bacolod City is alarmed over the recent incidents of human remains dumping in the locality. Frank Carbon, chief executive officer of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said in a radio interview over RMN dyHB Bacolod over the weekend, the incidents were “very bad …

  By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Negros Occidental’s Silay City Police Station clarified that they have not recorded any abduction incidents in April following the recovery of the remains in Bacolod City’s Barangay Cabug. Silay resident, 43-year-old Radney “Potot” Emplamado was recovered inside a drainage system of the Economic Highway on Tuesday night, May …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Two transport groups in Bacolod City said they will not join the transport strike on Monday, May 8, in protest against City Ordinance (CO) No. 966, or the Local Public Transport Route Plan (LPTRP). Albert Villanueva, chairman of the Sentrong Samahan ng Tsuper at Operators-Negros (SSTONE), said the planned transport …