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Some P477.7 million in infrastructure and enterprise projects proposed under the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) are being implemented in various local government units (LGU) in Negros Occidental. Data from the provincial government showed these are situated in 12 cities and municipalities across the province. “As we maximize all the resources and mechanisms …

Amid the increasing cases of Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children (OSAEC) in the province, the Negros Oriental Provincial Council Against Trafficking-Violence Against Women and their Children (PCAT-VAWC) is urging the public to be more vigilant in helping protect children from online sexual abuse. Assistant Provincial Prosecutor and Vice-Chair of PCAT-VAWC Emmylou Bendanillo said …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Police Office Station 5 is currently hunting for a 24-year-old man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the city’s Barangay Granada. Station commander, Police Major Joery Puerto, had requested not to identify the victim, who was already five months pregnant. According to Puerto, the victim and …

A man, who allegedly had not eaten for several days and had been drinking alcohol, was found dead inside a nipa hut at Barangay Sta. Cruz in Negros Occidental’s Murcia town on Tuesday morning, August 22. Police identified the fatality as 47-year-old Reynaldo Hilado, a resident of Bacolod City. He was rushed to the local …

A 103-year-old woman from Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental died the night before she was supposed to receive her birth certificate in official security paper (SECPA) from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) earlier this month. Eufronia Pitong Fernandez, who was born on August 5, 1920, was set to become the province’s oldest beneficiary of the Philippine …

The Police Regional Office-Western Visayas (PRO-6) has ordered its unit commanders to aggressively enforce the law against e-sabong (online cockfighting), based on the instructions of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). The directive was issued by Brigadier General Sidney Villaflor, police regional director, as monitoring continued on the possible e-sabong operation in …

By Mae Singuay An official of the Bacolod City Government Center apologized for the delayed salaries of 26 contract of service (COS) employees from the City Health Office (CHO). “Nagapangayo kita sang pasensya sa delay nga natuga,” secretary to the mayor Karol Joseph Chiu said. The affected employees include 14 nurses and 12 midwives, who …

Negros Occidental 3rd District Representative Jose Francisco Benitez is using a temporary Facebook page named “Metro 3rd News” as his team works to regain control of his hacked social media page. On Tuesday, hackers continued to have unauthorized access to the “Cong. Kiko Benitez” page, uploading videos of “hot movies” for two days now after …

A driver died after his motorcycle collided with a van along the national highway at Barangay Punta Mesa in Negros Occidental’s Manapla town on Monday, August 21. Christopher Padilla, 33 years old, a resident of Victorias City’s Barangay 21, overtook and crashed into the van, driven by 48-year-old Haresco Darius, traveling in the opposite direction, …

Five persons were arrested while almost P1.3 million in suspected shabu were seized in four separate buy-busts in Bacolod City over the weekend, reports from the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) on Monday, August 21, showed. “These are positive results as we strengthen the war on drugs by having intelligence-driven anti-drug operations,” Colonel Noel Aliño, …