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The volleyball team of Western Visayas won the volleyball pre-Palaro qualifying games in Cebu City in June.*The Department of Education (DepEd) in Western Visayas is eyeing new records in the 2023 Palarong Pambansa to surpass the seven records set in the sporting event held before the pandemic in 2019.The region recorded five new records in athletics composed of long jump and shot put for secondary girls, 3,000-meter steeple chase and 1,500-meter run for secondary boys, and javelin throw for elementary girls.Two records were also set in swimming consisting of the 100 and the 200 long course (LC) meters freestyle.DepEd information officer Hernani Escullar Jr. said on Tuesday, July 18, that the region will have a strong contingent consisting of 539 athletes; 131 coaches, assi...

The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office reported the confiscation of P1.74 million worth of suspected shabu and the arrest of 17 most wanted persons in the first two weeks of July.NOCCPO, in a Facebook post, said from July 2 to 15, they conducted 39 operations against illegal drugs where they apprehended 44 suspects and seized P1,738,500 worth of suspected shabu.They conducted 12 illegal drug operations, nabbed 12 suspects and recovered 70.54 grams of suspected shabu worth P479,658 from July 2 to 8.The NOCCPO also conducted 27 illegal drug operations, arrested 32 suspects, and recovered 182.8 grams of suspected shabu worth P1,258,842 from July 9 to 15,.They arrested 17 most wanted individuals and 120 other wanted persons in Negros Occidental the past two weeks, the N...

A trader died after his tricycle and a Ceres bus figured in an accident at Sitio Cambagting, Brgy. Cabacungan in La Castellana town, Negros Occidental, on Sunday , July 16, the police reported.The fatality was identified as Anthony Paulan, 42, a trader from Brgy. Guinpana-an, La Castellana.The Ceres bus driver was identified as Alberto Recomo, 38, of Brgy. Linuthangan, Canlaon City, Negros Oriental.The bus was going to Moises Padilla town while the tricycle was going in the opposite direction when the accident happened, Capt. Dennis Melfarejo, La Castellana deputy police chief, said.A settlement was reached with the family of the victim and no charges will be filed against the Ceres bus driver, he said.*

Victorias City Mayor Javier Miguel Benitez visiting Mayor Renato Gustilo in San Carlos City.*Victorias City Mayor Javier Miguel “Javi” Benitez is on a three-day tour of the towns and cities of Negros Occidental as part of a knowledge-sharing program among LGUs.As president of the Negros Association of Chief Executives (ACE), Benitez is undertaking the tour to benchmark best practices of different LGUs in Negros Occidental, a press release from his office said on Tuesday, July 18.On Monday Benitez kicked off the knowledge-sharing program in E.B. Magalona with Mayor Marvin Malacon.He then visited Silay City, Murcia, Don Salvador Benedicto, San Carlos City, and Calatrava.On Tuesday he visited LGUs in southern Negros and will be in the north on Wednesday.Victorias City ...

Forty employees assigned to the motorpool of the San Carlos City Engineering Department underwent random drug tests on Monday, Mayor Renato Gustilo said on Tuesday, July 18.Gustilo said they cannot announce if there are employees who test positive for drugs as the results will have to be subjected to confirmatory tests,The ongoing surprise drugs tests are being conducted to ensure a drug-free workplace as mandated by the Civil Service Commission, he said.The San Carlos City government has 900 regular employees and 700 to 800 casual and job order workers, he said.Ana Liza M. Macaraya, San Carlos City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (SCCADAC) secretariat, said they will inform the regular employees through a letter if they test positive and must undergo Drug Dependency Examination (D...

The seized magic mushrooms and shabu.*BCPO photoThe police confiscated for the first time psychedelic or “magic” mushrooms worth P316,000 in a subdivision in Brgy. Cabug, Bacolod City, at 10:35 p.m. Monday, July 17.Street-level targets Diane and Franz Jovi Tolmo, who are siblings, and Fierre Santillana were arrested in a buy bust operation at One Community Subdivision, the police reported.Seized were 13 grams of shabu worth P88,400 and 3.61 kilos of magic mushroom with a market value of P316,000, the report added.PMaj. Joery Puerto, Police Station 5 Commander, told DIGICAST NEGROS that this is the first time that they have recovered magic mushrooms in Bacolod City.Franz Tolmo told them the confiscated magic mushrooms were sourced from a resident of Don Salvador Benedic...

Political prisoners in Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) facilities in Negros Island called for the immediate release of sickly and elderly political prisoners on Tuesday, July 18, to mark Nelson Mandela International Day.The call is consistent with the writ of kalayaan being advocated by the Supreme Court, led by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, to help solve the grave problem of over congestion in Philippine prisons, a press statement from Kapatid Negros said.The late Nelson Mandela, an activist lawyer and president of South Africa in the '90s, was one of the world's most prominent political prisoners, having been incarcerated for around 30 years for his anti-apartheid advocacy. The United Nations Standard Mininum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, revised i...

Dr. John Michael Cabuguason (right), Victorias City veterinarian, receives lateral flow device kits for rabies testing from Dr. Nobuo Saito of the JICA Japan and Philippines One Health Rabies project.*Victorias City in Negros Occidental will host the first remote rabies laboratory in Negros Island under the Japan International Cooperation Agency’s (JICA) Japan and Philippines One Health Rabies (JAPOHR) project to help eradicate the viral disease in the Philippines.The facility, which is seen to operate in August in the city’s veterinary hospital, will use the Japanese-developed lateral flow device (LFD) or immunochromatographic test (ICT) kits for early detection of rabies.Dr. John Michael Cabuguason, city veterinarian, said on Monday, July 17, that Victorias is receiving suppo...

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS2BeiVccJU[/embedyt]Salayluhan sang South Terminal sa Bacolod ginapangitaan sang lugar sang siudad. Pero pila ka mga drayber kag pasahero nagapamalabag.

Local government units in Negros Occidental have been reminded to remain alert for floods and landslides, Irene Bel Ploteña, Provincial Disaster Management Program Division head, said Monday, July 17.She said rains brought on by the southwest monsoon are expected to last for three more days.There were no untoward incidents reported in Negros Occidental from rains brought on by the southwest monsoon, which were enhanced by Tropical Storm “Dodong” last week, she said.“Dodong” exited the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) on Saturday.However, PAGASA is monitoring a new low pressure area (LPA) that entered the PAR Monday noon that could further intensify into a tropical cyclone, which would then be called “Egay”.The LPA was 925 kilometers east of northeastern Mindanao ...