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The accident in Silay City that lleft a motorcycle driver dead.*PNP photoA truck accidentally ran over a motorcycle driver causing his instantaneous death at the Hinicayan Road in Brgy. E. Lopez, Silay City, Negros Occidental, 10:45 a.m. Sunday, February 19.Antonio Granada, 30, of Sitio Mantabanon, Brgy. Camang-Camang, Isabela, who was driving a Kawasaki Barako motorcycle without plate number was killed, the police reported Monday. His passenger Michael Sung, 30, of Hacienda Marigasa 2, Brgy. E. Lopez, Silay City, sustained minor injuries.The truck driver Walden Gale, 57, of Silay City was detained, the police said.Police investigation showed that the truck driven by Gale was travelling from south to north while the motorcycle was trailing from behind.Gale changed lanes...

The Bacolod City government will not be announcing when and where it will conduct its impounding operations against about 10,000 illegally operating tricycles in Bacolod City, Councilor Al Victor Espino said Monday, February 20.The campaign that was to start on Monday was delayed because uniforms and identification cards had not been distributed to the deputized agents composed of the presidents of about 60 groups under the Tricycle Operators and Drivers' Association (TODA), he said.There are an estimated 15,000 tricycles operating in Bacolod City and there are only about 5,000 that are registered with franchises, he said.City Ordinance 650 allows the granting of franchises to only 7,000 tricycles to operate in Bacolod City, Espino said.Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benite...

Bacolod City PIO photo*Seventy-seven of the 122 missing vehicles of the Bacolod City government have been accounted for but have not been physically seen, Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said Monday, February 20.Those assigned the 77 vehicles will be asked to explain where they are, he said.The persons issued the 45 other vehicles that have not been accounted for will also be issued notices to explain, Benitez added.The vehicles in question were assigned to barangays, the police, and personnel who have already retired, the mayor said.A new system is being proposed to bar code all city property so they can easily be located and accounted for, Benitez said.*

The business sector is suggesting that Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo be made the first chairman of the Regional Development Council of the proposed Negros Island Region, Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said Monday, February 20.To allay the fears of Degamo that Negros Oriental will not have equal footing with Negros Occidental under the new region, Frank Carbon. chief executive officer of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry, suggested that the RDC chairmanship be given to him.“We’re willing to give that to him just to prove that Negros Occidental is here to help,” Lacson said.A second meeting between Lacson and Degamo has yet to be set.All of the representatives of Negros and Siquijor islands are pushing for the creation of the new region to be composed of Negros ...

The police seized P1.4 million in suspected shabu in a buy bust operation at Luzuriaga Street in Brgy. 6, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, at 7:04 p.m. Monday, February 20.Nabbed was Mark John Quijano, 23, a high value drug target of Ylagan Street, Brgy 6, the San Carlos police reported.Recovered from him was 216 grams of suspected shabu valued at P1,469,276, the police said.Quijano is now detained at the custodial facility of the San Carlos City Police Station.*

The E. B. Magalona police destroyed 72 illegal ear-splitting modified exhaust pipes confiscated from motorbike riders in the municipality and from those passing through the town on Monday, February 20.Maj. Kenneth Jay Gratones, EB Magalona police chief, said the illegal exhaust pipes were seized from motorbike riders in the past three weeks.Witnessing the activity held in front of the Municipal Hall were the town officials led by Mayor Marvin Malacon.Malacon also turned over 44 new pairs of PNP patrol shoes to Gratones for the use of the town’s policemen.Gratones assured Malacon and the town officials that the police will work harder in maintaining peace and order in the municipality, and go the extra mile in delivering public service to Saraviahanons.*

Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (center) flanked by councilors Al Victor Espino and Jude Thaddeus Sayson (right) at a press conference on Monday.*Billionaire Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez said Monday, February 20, that he will personally pay for the about P16 million renovation and expansion of the Mayor’s Office at the Bacolod City Government Center.Barring any legal obstacles he is planning to spend his personal funds for the renovation of the Mayor’s Office, and redirect the government funds allocated for it towards the repair of the city’s public toilets, Benitez said at a press conference.His spending personal funds for the renovation of the mayor’s office is to make sure there are no issues that government funds are being used for his personal benefit, Ben...