By Mae Singuay Around 70 individuals were arrested for allegedly being involved in illegal cockfighting in Negros Occidental’s E.B. Magalona town on Saturday morning, April 29. Town police station and the 605th Regional Mobile Force Battalion conducted the operation at 11:50 a.m. in Barangay San Isidro. The suspects were all residents of the town’s Barangay …
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40-K out of 102-K coco farmers in NegOr sign up for nat’l registry
Coconut farmers and workers in Negros Oriental are urged to sign up with the National Coconut Farmers’ Registry System (NCFRS) so they can avail of programs and benefits offered to this sector. In a forum hosted by the Philippine Information Agency last week, Marita Somido, acting provincial coconut development manager of the Philippine Coconut …
Checkpoint evaders link in ‘illegal drug trade’ seen
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The motorcycle-riding individuals, who evaded a police checkpoint in Negros Occidental’s Calatrava town on April 22, are allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade, local town police said. According to Calatrava Municipal Police Station deputy chief, Police Captain Jesus Alba, the suspects, who ran away from their checkpoint in …
2 yields over P400-K ‘shabu’
By Mae Singuay Around P476,000 worth of suspected shabu was confiscated from two individuals in Bacolod City’s Barangay 27 yesterday morning, April 28. Operatives from the City Drug Enforcement Unit arrested 54-year-old Normalyn de Asis and 27-year-old Almer Doloso, residents of the said place, at 1:52 a.m. Police said the confiscated alleged illegal drugs …
DTI helps micro-businesses secure FDA license
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Negros Oriental is assisting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) engaged in packed food selling to comply with the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a license to operate. Maribel Sumanoy, officer-in-charge of DTI-Negros Oriental’s MSMEs Development Division, said yesterday many MSMEs are …
Teen, 2 others nabbed for ‘shabu’
By Mae Singuay A minor and two others were arrested in a drug buy-bust operation in Bacolod City’s Barangay Tangub early yesterday morning, April 27. Arrested were a 14-year-old girl from the city’s Barangay 14; 48-year-old Jade Babaran, a high-value individual; and 27-year-old son Jadelle Clyde, both residents of Tangub. Confiscated were 14 sachets …
Victims of NegOr mass shooting to receive ‘intervention’
Survivors and the families of those who died in the mass shooting in Negros Oriental’s Pamplona town, where Governor Roel Degamo was killed, will finally get psychological and stress interventions that would help them cope with the traumatic experience. Three to five psychiatrists from Cebu will render their services to the survivors and families …
Ex-druggie shot dead
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A former drug suspect was shot dead inside a computer shop at Purok Langis in Bacolod City’s Barangay Banago early Monday morning, April 24. Edcel Mike Diaz, 26 years old, of the city’s Barangay Granada village was sitting inside the internet shop when a lone gunman entered the establishment. The …
1 dead, 1 hurt in Murcia road mishap
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A head-on collision between a sports utility vehicle and a public utility jeepney left one person dead at Barangay Salvacion in Negros Occidental’s Murcia town late Tuesday night, April 25. Police identified the fatality as 30-year-old jeepney driver Samuel Olimpo, a resident of Purok Kalubihan in the town’s Barangay …
NegOcc ARB group engages in plant tissue culture to boost income
An agrarian reform beneficiaries organization (ARBO) in Negros Occidental’s Murcia town has been selected by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to engage in a plant tissue culture to increase farm productivity and income. The Villa Carolina Integrated Organic Farmers Association, based in Barangay San Miguel, is being assisted by DAR-Negros Occidental I (North) in …