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Three persons were killed during Holy Week in two cities and a town in Negros Occidental.A Talisaynon was allegedly shot by a Bantay Bukid member in Sitio Malasaga, Brgy. Katilingban, Talisay City, on Black Saturday, April 19.Alias “Arnold”, 43, of Hacienda Hiyanghiyang in Brgy. Katilingban was shot by alias “Judgie”, a Bantay Bukid member, the police reported.Alias “Neil”, also a Bantay Bukid member, said he and the suspect were on duty at the entrance of the Malasaga Falls and the victim and his brother were about to pass by them.The suspect approached them and without any provocation shot the victim multiple times while his brother ran away, Neil said.During a body check on the victim, the police recovered a .22 caliber Magnum with five live ammunition from him.B...

A man who previously faced a carnapping case was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Purok Boulevard, Brgy. 14, Bacolod City on Black Saturday, April 19.Arrested was John Rolene Vargas, 21, of Purok Boulevard, Bacolod Police Station 1 reported.Recovered from him were 15 grams of suspected shabu estimated to cost P102,000, and the buy-bust money, the police said.The suspect is now detained at Police Station 1.*

Expect fuel prices to go up by about P1 per liter on Tuesday, April 22.Diesel prices are expected to increase by P1 to P1.20 per liter, Unioil Petroleum Philippine said.Gasoline prices are also expected to increase by P1 to P1.20 per liter, it added.*

The recovered body of Ricardo Requilme Jacubi* Coast Guard Station Southern Negros Occidental photoA vendor's body was found floating near the shoreline at Purok Guiwanon, Brgy. 4, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, on Good Friday, April 18.Ricardo Requilme Jacubi, 49, of Purok 4, Barangay 2, Sipalay, drowned, the Coast Guard Station Southern Negros Occidental reported.Prior to the incident the victim was confined for two days at the Sipalay City Infirmary for excessive drinking and body tremors.According to his family, the victim appeared to be mentally unstable and was hallucinating, the police said.His body was retrieved by personnel from Sipalay City Incident Command Team and Philippine Coast Guard.*

Jagpreet  Singh, the Toyota Innova driver*Romeo Subaldo photoThe death toll increased to three with 16 injured when a Good Friday procession turned into a tragedy after a vehicle driven by an Indian national,   who tested positive for the use of alcohol, slammed into a tricycle  in Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City, on April 19.The faithful who walked behind life size religious images were headed back to the  Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish Church in Alangilan when a female participant fainted.Lay Minister Jonel Solano, 66,  and his friend barangay tanod  Gilven Tanique, 62,   rushed  student Daynah Plohinog, 21,  who fainted on a tricycle to get medical help.The tricycle already reached the front of the procession beyond a pol...

The Toyota Innova driven by the Indian national.* Romeo Subaldo photoA lay minister and a barangay tanod were killed while nine others were injured when a Toyota Innova driven by an Indian national hit a tricycle, which on impact hit a police vehicle and participants of a Catholic Church procession in Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City, at about 7:20 p.m. on Good Friday.PCol. Joeresty Coronica, Bacolod police director, confirmed that there were two casualties, one of whom  died on the spot. The nine injured were brought to various hospitals, he said. The Toyota Innova driven by an Indian national identified as Jagpreet  Singh, 37,   hit the tricycle carrying a procession participant who needed medical help, Maj. Mark Joel Reclamado, Bacolod police Station 5 chief, sai...

Kanlaon Volcano as seen from Canlaon City on Tuesday, April 15.*The recent ash emissions and minor explosive eruptions at Mt. Kanlaon are all indications that the volcano is preparing for a major eruption, a Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) official said on Tuesday, April 15.There could either be a voluminous lava eruption or a highly explosive worse case eruption, Ma. Antonia V. Bornas, Phivolcs Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Prediction Division chief, told DIGICAST NEGROS.Kanlaon had three ash emission events, 33 volcanic earthquakes, including 5 volcanic tremors, and emitted 1,850 tons of sulfur dioxide from 12 a.m. Monday to 12 a.m. Tuesday, Phivolcs reported.Kanlaon spewed ash for more than seven hours on Monday, which resulted in light as...

Huge crowds are expected to join processions on Holy Week,*Ronnie Baldonado file photoThe Philippine National Police is on full alert for Holy Week, PBrig. Gen. Arnold Thomas Ibay, officer-in-charge of the Police Regional Office–Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR), said on Tuesday, April 15.The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Emergency Operations Center is also going on blue alert starting Wednesday until Monday, April 21.Ibay said the PNP will be on full alert for Holy Week onwards until the May 12 polls.The police will be on full alert to secure residents observing Holy Week rites at Churches and pilgrimage sites, and those going to beaches and resorts, he said.The police will also secure seaports, airports bus terminals with an influx of people e...

A 49-year-old woman from Bago City is the seventh dengue fever casualty in Negros Occidental, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported.There were 1,603 dengue cases in Negros Occidental from Jan. 1 to April 5, the PHO said in a report furnished by Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson to the media on Tuesday, April 15.The cases this year are 381.38 percent higher than the 333 cases in the same period last year.Bago City still has the most dengue cases at 320, the PHO said.The 11 to 20 years old age group had the most number of dengue cases.The previous dengue casualties were an 18-year-old male from Isabela, 33-year-old male from Murcia, 13-year-old male from San Carlos City, 17-year-old male from Ilog, 9-year-old female from Silay City and a 16-year-old male from Manapla.Lac...

Jayvee Fuentebella (center), topnotcher of the April 2025 Electronics Technician Licensure Examination, and his mother Mary Grace meet with City Department of Social Services Head Richelle Verdeprado Mangga (2nd from left), DSWD City Action Team Leader Ryan Cezar (right), and City Link Sweetly Lalisa at the Bacolod City Government Center on TuesdayThe Bacolod City government on Tuesday, April 15, commended Jayvee Fuentebella, a former monitored child of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) for topping the April 2025 Electronics Technician (ECT) Licensure Examination.In a statement, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez said Bacolod City is proud of Fuentebella’s achievement as he congratulated him for his perseverance to make life better for his family.“He is from Barangay ...