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  The Regional Development Council-Western Visayas (RDC-6), headed by chairperson, Bacolod City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez, convened yesterday to discuss preparations ahead of the creation of the Negros Island Region (NIR). “This is a consultative meeting between our congressmen, mayors and regional directors in anticipation of the enactment of the NIR legislation. We are now moving …

  By JEN BAYLON The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) apprehended 134 individuals for illegal gambling from May 1 to 15, the highest in Western Visayas. The Police Regional Office in Western Visayas (PRO-6) conducted 95 anti-illegal gambling operations across the region during the period, which resulted in 261 arrests and the confiscation of …

  Almost 2,000 student-athletes are competing in the Philippine Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Games 2024 Visayas Regional Qualifying Leg that kicked off at Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City yesterday. Hosted by Bacolod, together with the neighboring cities of Talisay and Victorias, the weeklong sports competition, themed “Husay ng ROTC, Husay ng Kabataan” …

  A couple was arrested during a drug buy-bust operation in Bacolod City’s Barangay Taculing early Saturday morning, May 25. An estimated P748,000 worth of suspected shabu weighing 110 grams was recovered from the suspects — a 41-year-old man and his 28-year-old live-in partner. City Drug Enforcement Unit head, Police Captain Joven Mogato said the man, …

By JEN BAYLON Eighteen “bookies” collectors in Negros Occidental are facing illegal gambling charges following their arrests during police operations in the past months. The collectors were arrested in separate anti-illegal gambling operations in the cities of Escalante, Bago, La Carlota, Sipalay, and Victorias, as well as the municipalities of Candoni, San Enrique, E.B. Magalona, …

  The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc has dismissed the motion for reconsideration filed by former Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia on the dismissal of his election protest against Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez in September 2022. Benitez unseated Leonardia in the May 9, 2022 elections with a total of 171,893 votes against the latter’s …

  The three-day Bacolod Chicken Inasal Festival is poised to create more economic opportunities and tourism development in the city as it kicked off at the North Capitol Road last night. The festival highlights the city’s heritage food industry made famous by its signature dish, the chicken inasal or charcoal-grilled chicken. In a statement, Mayor …

  Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson shared the experience of the provincial government in integrated water security planning at the 10th World Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday, May 22. “This is to report how, through the United States Agency for International Development [USAID], we have come up with a water security plan, …

  A remnant of the dismantled Northern Negros Front of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in a clash with joint government troops in Barangay Cambayobo, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Wednesday afternoon, May 22. The Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID), in a report yesterday, identified the fatality as Jeje Redobles, whose body the …

  By JEN BAYLON A man took his own life after he hacked his live-in partner and four children in Negros Occidental’s Kabankalan City on Wednesday night, May 22. Kabankalan police chief Captain Joelan Vinzon said 36-year-old Eumil Francisco, allegedly suffering from a nervous breakdown, hacked his two daughters, two sons and 36-year-old live-in partner …