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A man was electrocuted in Brgy. Zone 9, Talisay City, Negros Occidental, on Friday, June 23.The victim was identified as Rolan Piano, 31, of Brgy. 16, Bacolod City, the police reported Sunday, June 25.Rolito Piano, the brother of the victim, said Rolan climbed a mango tree to pick mangoes when he accidentally touched a livewire of Central Negros Electric Cooperative that caused his electrocution.The victim was rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, Bacolod City, by the Talisay City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office but was declared dead on arrival, the police report said.*

A series of buy-bust operations in four local government units in Negros Occidental resulted in the confiscation of an estimated P142,800 worth of suspected shabu on Friday and Saturday, June 23 and 24, the police reported Sunday.Sandro Morales, 41, of Hacienda Tamaraw, Brgy. San Pablo, was arrested and 10 grams of shabu valued at P68,000 was seized in Brgy. 1-A, Manapla, on Friday, the police said.Clarence Danoy, 22, of Brgy. IV, Talisay City, was arrested with 7 grams of shabu worth P47,600 in Brgy. IV, Silay City, on Saturday, the police also said.Christian Niño Junio, 24, was also arrested in Brgy. Batuan, La Carlota City, after the police allegedly recovered from him two grams of suspected shabu worth P13,600.In Talisay City, Jason Dionson alias “Tinging”, 43, of Brgy....

A driver was shot resulting in the collision of the modern jeepney he was driving and an SUV at Palanca Road in the Reclamation Area, Bacolod City, Saturday evening, June 24.Noel Morales, the modern jeepney driver, was shot by a still unidentified person.PCapt. Paul Vincent Pendon, Police Station 2 chief, told DIGICAST NEGROS that the victim, who was hit by a bullet beneath his left eye and on his right ear, is now in stable condition, and an investigation is ongoing to identify the suspect.On Monday, the bullet will be extracted from the modern jeepney and will be turned over to the crime laboratory for ballistics investigation, he said.*

A Bacolod resident was sentenced to two counts of life imprisonment and ordered to pay fines totaling P900,000 on Friday, June 23.Judge Raymond Joseph Javier of the Bacolod Regional Trial Court sentenced Jonathan Logronio Estolano to life imprisonment for the sale of shabu to a police poseur buyer and to pay a fine of P500,000.Estolano was arrested after he sold .225 gram of shabu to a police poseur buyer for P1,000 at Purok Sigay, Barangay 2, Bacolod, on Nov. 24, 2022.On his arrest 24.701 grams of shabu were seized from him, court records showed.Estolano was also sentenced to life imprisonment for possession of the 24.701 grams of shabu and to pay a fine of P400,000.The jail warden of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Male Dormitory in Barangay Singcang-Airpor...

Commission on Human Rights-Negros Occidental head Vincent Parra*It has not been determined who the armed men who ransacked the home of the Fausto family on three occasions prior to their killing were, Commission on Human Rights-Negros Occidental head Vincent Parra, said on Saturday, June 24.CHR investigation shows that armed men ransacked the home of the Fausto family at Sitio Kangkiling, Brgy. Buenavista, Himamaylan City, prior to their killing in the evening of June 14.Killed were Rolly Sabanal Fausto, 52, his wife Emilda, 49, and their sons aged 11 and 15 years old.They have yet to determine whether the culprits who ransacked the Fausto home earlier were government soldiers or New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, and what they were looking for, Parra, said.PLt. Col. Reyna...

Rescuers carry the remains of the drowning victim in Capiz.*PCG photoSix persons drowned in Western Visayas on St. John the Baptist Day on Saturday, June 24, the Philippine Coast Guard reported on Sunday.There were two fatalities in Iloilo, and one each in Negros Occidental, Aklan , Capiz and Guimaras, Commander Jansen Benjamin, Coast Guard District Western Visayas public information officer, said.The victim from Negros Occidental was Joseph Ragasa, 28, of Hacienda Teresa, Brgy Alicante, E B Magalona, who drowned in the Malogo River.Ragasa was at a drinking session with friends in celebration of the St. John the Baptist Day and was last seen alive at 1 p.m. swimming in the Malogo River in EB Magalona.His friends searched for him and sought the help of the Municipal Di...

Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson (right) with Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., executive director of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, at the close of a two-day transformation program planning workshop.*Richard Mailhan photoThe Negros Occidental provincial government renewed its commitment to end the decades-long communist insurgency during the two-day transformation program planning workshop for local peace stakeholders with the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU) in Talisay City.Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson, chairperson of the Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC), said on Friday , June 23, that the workshop is “an important step in developing a thorough and su...

E.B. Magalona in Negros Occidental is enforcing a municipal ordinance that prohibits the selling and distribution of double-dead pork meat within the town.Municipal Ordinance No. 8 series of 2023 entitled “An Ordinance Prohibiting the Transportation, Distribution, Storing, and/or Selling of Double Dead (Pork) Meat in all Markets within the Territorial Jurisdiction of the Municipality of E.B. Magalona and Providing Penalties Thereof” was approved unanimously by the Sangguniang Bayan, and was enacted June 5.The ordinance states that with the spread of African swine fever and other animal diseases in the province, there is a need to regulate, monitor, and standardize proper hygienic requirements to ensure the quality standard of meat in all markets in E. B. Magalona.It said that t...