Negros Occidental governor’s office shut down due to COVID scare

Carla Gomez 06/13/2021

BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Governor’s Office has been temporarily shut down after two employees tested positive for COVID-19, Provincial Administrator Rayfrado Diaz said on Friday. The two employees who tested positive for COVID-19 are in…

Cebu-bound travelers from Bohol, Negros Island need RT-PCR, antigen test

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Travelers from Bohol, Negros Oriental, and Negros Occidental will need to take a real time polymerase reaction test (RT-PCR) or a Rapid Antigen Test should they want to come to Cebu. Cebu Governor…

Two brothers from Cebu, wanted for rape, child abuse, nabbed in Negros Occ.

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararaña 05/24/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two brothers, one wanted for raping a 17-year-old girl while the other wanted for child abuse for having knowledge of the rape and not reporting it, were arrested in Escalante City, Negros Occidental…

Negros Occidental gov orders 4-day workweek for prov’l gov’t employees

Carla Gomez 04/13/2021

BACOLOD CITY –– Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson has ordered a four-day workweek for provincial government employees amid the surge in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. Lacson said in an April 12 memorandum that office hours would…

In Negros Occ., man, who ran amok, killed by cop

Paul Lauro 03/25/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 66-year-old man from Victorias City, Negros Occidental, who ran amok, died after he was shot by a policeman. Reports from the Negros Occidental Police Station showed that Police Master Sergeant Valentin Cerdeña…

Entry of locally stranded individuals in Negros Occidental suspended from Oct. 3 to 9

Carla Gomez 10/06/2020

The Western Visayas Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) on COVID-19 has approved the suspension of the arrival of locally stranded individuals (LSIs) in Negros Occidental from October 3 to 9. LSIs bound for Bacolod, however, may enter…

Former village chief who escaped Medellin jail killed in shootout with police in Negros Occ.

Alven Marie Timtim, Paul Lauro 09/28/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Jennifer Mercader, a high-risk inmate and former Barangay Captain of Lugo in Borbon town, Cebu, was killed in a police operation in Barangay Minoyan, Murcia town, Negros Occidental on Monday morning, September 28,…

Cops kill ‘one of biggest drug suppliers in Dumaguete;’ P13M shabu seized 

Alven Marie A. Timtim 09/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Police in Negros Oriental scored big in its anti-illegal drug campaign after they killed a man, whom they believed was one of the biggest illegal drug suppliers in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. Aside…

Negros Occidental orders arrest of 7 persons who refused swab test

Carla Gomez 09/19/2020

BACOLOD CITY — The Negros Occidental provincial government has ordered the arrest of seven people who refused to undergo a swab test for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) upon their entry in the province. The seven, who…

Stranded folk from Western Visayas may now go home

09/17/2020

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — Stranded residents from Western Visayas can now go home after the national task force overseeing the government response to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) partially lifted the suspension of travel to the…

COVID-19 cases in PH surpass 200,000-mark with 5,277 new infections

Katrina Hallare 08/26/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases surpassed the 200,000-mark after 5,277 new infections were recorded on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Based on the latest data provided by the Department of Health (DOH),…

4 ‘CPP-NPA officials’ arrested in Kabankalan, NegOcc

Alven Marie A. Timtim 07/11/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four high-ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines- New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) were arrested by the 15th infantry battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Friday, July 10,…

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