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Youth advocacy group Kabataan Partylist Negros on Sunday, May 24,  again  condemned statements by Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson that encourage school administrators to monitor student campus activities, calling the move an advancement toward state surveillance and profiling in academic institutions.Lacson on Thursday said “there is nothing wrong with school officials knowing the activities going on among the youth on their campuses”.The governor said his call for vigilance was directed at school administrations following reports of  rebel recruitment on campuses. While he noted the recruitment is not immediately to join the New People’s Army (NPA), he maintained that campus activities could lead in that direction.Kabataan Partylist Negros in its ...

Cadiz City held a road safety training for its 180 government-employed drivers at Balay Cadizonon on Friday, May 22.It was spearheaded by the city's General Services Office (GSO) in coordination with Land Transportation Office (LTO), a press release from Cadiz City said.The training was held to remind the  drivers of their responsibilities  in transporting employees, responding to field operations, delivering services, and carrying out the work that keeps the city running, the press release said.The training also underscored the importance of proper vehicle management, accountability, and safety practices among personnel entrusted with government vehicles, noting that public trust is carried not only inside offices, but also on the road, it added. said.Cadiz Mayor...

A former militia member of the dismantled communist rebel group voluntarily surrendered to the police  in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental on Saturday, May 23, police said.The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region said the former Yunit Militia member surrendered at around 2:04 p.m. at the headquarters of the 2nd Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company in Sitio San Roque, Brgy. Gargato.Police said the surrenderee was formerly affiliated with the dismantled Central Negros 2 under the Komiteng Rehiyon-Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor.The surrender was facilitated by the 2nd Negros Occidental Provincial Mobile Force Company, in coordination with the Hinigaran Municipal Police Station and the Regional Intelligence Unit-NIR.As part of government reintegration effort...

The Bacolod police seized ₱14.2 million worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation at Purok Camonsil, Barangay 3, Bacolod City, at 2:59 a.m. today, May 23.Operatives recovered 2,100 grams of suspected shabu with an estimated standard drug price of ₱14,280,000, the Police Regional Office Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) reported.The arrested suspects were identified as alias "John", 29, a painter and resident of Purok Camonsil, and alias "Mark", 34, a construction worker from Purok GK, Barangay Cabug, Bacolod City.The operation was conducted by Police Station 2 operatives with support from the City Drug Enforcement Unit of the Bacolod City Police Office.The suspects are currently detained at Bacolod Police Station 2.The Bacolod police also seized 4.2 kilos of shabu valued ...

The area where the victim’s body was found.*Rape and robbery are among the motives being eyed by investigators in the brutal killing of a 38-year-old mother of two in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, on Thursday afternoon, May 21.The victim identified as alias "Jen" was found dead in a vacant lot in Sitio Capayas, Barangay Sicaba, at around 4:30 p.m. by her husband, approximately 300 meters away from their residence.The Cadiz City police said the victim sustained bruises and an eye injury believed to have been caused by a blunt impact from a coconut. She was also found without her undergarments.Police noted indications of a struggle, as the strap of her sling bag was found tightly wrapped around her neck.Authorities recovered a coconut, a black sling bag, and a pair of sl...

Bacolod Mayor Greg Gasaraya.*Mayor Greg Gasataya said on Friday, May 22, that he strongly condemns any statement, act, or public expression that normalizes, justifies, or makes light of rape and violence against women.Jean Paul C. Generoso, anchorman and Vice President for Administration and Human Resources at K5 News FM Bacolod, has faced widespread backlash after telling a female reporter on-air that he would rape her so he could "go to jail" alongside a father who had recently beaten his child at the Bacolod Public Plaza.“The recent broadcast treating sexual assault as a matter of humor is a failure of empathy and a betrayal of civic trust. The trauma of sexual violence must never be reduced to a punchline,” Gasataya said in a statement posted on his Facebook page.“De...

Police crime scene operatives carry the cadaver of one of the dead in Barangay Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental, on April 20.*Cheng Santillan photoContrary to claims that 19 alleged New People's Army (NPA) members were massacred during the April 19 clash in Toboso, Negros Occidental, a ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said the communist insurgents were given every opportunity to surrender, but they refused."Government forces continuously called on members of the armed group to surrender because no one wanted these encounters to happen," NTF-ELCAC executive director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. said on Friday, May 22."Tragically, opportunities for peace were repeatedly ignored and rejected even during the lull in co...