Two persons were stabbed dead in separate incidents in Bago City, Sunday.
Superintendent David Cachumbo, Jr., Bago City PNP chief identified the victims as Rogelio Ramos, 27, alias “Onyong” of Barangay Payawan, Bayawan City in Negros Oriental but temporarily residing in Purok Weber in Barangay Don Jorge Araneta in Bago City and Roel Alabi, alias “Tata” of Purok Kalubihan, Barangay Tabunan in the City.
Six houses were razed Saturday night by fire in Purok Sampaguita, Barangay Poblacion in Bago City around 6:30 p.m.
Fire Inspector Joemarie Purdadera, Bago City Fire Marshall of the Bureau of Fire Protection said the fire started at the house of Efren Posadas. The cause of fire was electrical in nature. It was fired out around 8 p.m.
The Posadas were not in the house at the time but allegedly left some appliances connected to the fire outlets like refrigerator.
Other houses totally destroyed were owned by Ofelia Infante, Rodolfo Infante and Ernesto Sorillo.
City of Bago in celebration of its 50th Charter Anniversary presents “ Boom” - Bago City Music Fest 2016 on February 12, 2016 at the Festival Street from 6pm to 6am the following day.
Featuring performances from Brazilian Model/DJ Luane back to back with Model DJ Cathy Frey and together with today’s in demand DJs Ian Caram, Martin Silverio, Remon Malones, Drayrix Dingcong, Austin Las Piñas, Van with Mcs Phat Mike and CB.
Also to hype up the crowd will be showbiz royalty dancers G Force appearing in this one night event only.
Maria Luisa Dreyfus Perez, a long-time columnist (19 years) of the Negros Daily Bulletin (Sleep on it), a dedicated educator of the Negros Occidental High
Mrs. Perez recalled that Mark Lester, her second of two sons and an only daughter, was a regular cyclist and was on his bicycle routine from Bago to Bacolod and vice versa on that fateful day which turned out to be his last, he felt extreme pain and was not his usual self. While at the Calumangan area, he decided to drink plenty of cold water, dropped by his grandmother's house at Damayan, Sampinit only to fall on the driveway at his in-laws when he forced himself to cycle home to Bago City where he finally expired.
The Perez Family of Bago City. The late Mark Lester (2nd L) with wife Johanna
Pauline Espinosa Singson (left) with parents Ma. Luisa Dreyfus Perez and Arcelin
B. Perez, only sister Alexandra Grace and eldest brother Louis Archie (right).*
An elderly woman was victimized by three persons and a minor and lost about P110, 00 cash last Thursday in Bago City Public market.
Police Superintendent David Cachumbo, Jr., Bago City PNP chief identified the victim as Emilinda Alo Balor, 59 years old, of Purok Sapsap, Barangay Poblacion in the City.
She told police operatives that three unidentified suspects, two female and a male approached her one after the other and seemed to have hypnotized her.
Five persons were killed in separate road mishaps in Bago, Sagay and Talisay cities Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
It was a bloody Valentine’s Day for one family from Purok Kabanbanan, Barangay Busay in Bago City, Negros Occidental who was set to see a concert in the city Sunday night when they figured in a road mishap. Three of them were killed.
The father and his wife were declared dead on arrival at Bago City Hospital, while one of their children died at Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital at noon yesterday.
Responding police operatives arrested one of the three robbery suspects in a follow up operation in Barangay Antipolo COMPAC detachment that conducted checkpoint after alerted by San Enrique PNP.
The incident happened 11 a.m. in JJ store at Crossing Sibucao, Barangay Sibucao in San Enrique.
Earlier in the morning, the same suspects also robbed a Nestle Corporation delivery van in Bago City then they escaped towards San Enrique when they spotted a delivery van of cigarettes.
Police Senior Inspector Gerold Huerva, acting police chief of
The long arm of the law has finally caught up with two wanted persons; one in a buy bust operation in Escalante and three minors were arrested and the other in Bago City, Wednesday.
Police chief Inspector Robert Mansueto, acting police chief of Escalante City identified the suspect as Mark Rojo Carnecer, of legal age, resident of Sitio Busay, Barangay Old Escalante in Escalante City.
Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO)–Bacolod had transferred office to Bantayan Park in Brgy. Poblacion, Bago City.
(Seated from left) For. Andres T. Untal (PENRO Negros Occidental), Charlie E.
Fabre (PENRO Negros Oriental), USEC Demetrio L. Ignacio, DENR-NIR Regional
Director Al O. Orolfo, Ph.D., USEC Manuel D. Gerochi, EMB-NIR Regional Director
Sophie Manuel; (Standing from left) Engr. Joan Nathaniel F. Gerangaya (CENRO
Bago), For. Edgardo Rostata, (CENRO Cadiz), Efren A. Rumbaoa (CENRO Dumaguete),
Anecito M. Aquino (CENRO Ayungon), For. Rene C. Abordo (CENRO Kabankalan).*
Bago City’s Ramon Torres National High School (RTNHS) and St. Scholastica’s Academy (SSA) avenged their loss in last conference’s finals when they ruled the U15 boys and U17 girls divisions, respectively, in the recently-concluded 2016 Dynamic Football League 1st Confernce championship matches at the Panaad Park and Stadium.
RTNHS survived University of St. La Salle-Integrated School, 2-1 in the U15 finals as Ayana Alon’s hatrick lifted SSA to blank St. John’s Institute, 3-0.
Lewaijiao (LWJ), an online and offline tutorial services entity with more than 10,000 students in different cities in China arrived in the country to lock a partnership with Bago City College, a government-run educational institution in Bago City, Negros Occidental. LWJ is a Business Unit of TAL Education Group which is a leading K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China. They offer comprehensive tutoring services to more than 300,000 students from pre-school to the twelfth grade in China. TAL is a company listed in the New York Stock Exchange.
(From Left to Right) Dr. George T. Parroco, Bago City College
Administrator-President; Mr. Golden Zheng, CEO, Lewaijiao; Bago City Mayor Ramon
Torres; Ms. Calyn Shi, Director of Lewaijiao; Manuel T. Parroco, Owner- Virtual
Desk; April Jewel Jarina, Operations Manager of Virtual Desk.*
A construction worker who was requested by his live-in partner to collect payment from a sugar cane cutter (sacada) was shot dead by the latter who refused to pay him in Barangay Dulao, Bago City past 7 a.m. Sunday.
Police identified the victim as Opreciano Montowa, 43 years of Barangay Dulao.
He sustained a gunshot wound from a .38 caliber firearm. He was declared dead on arrival at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City.
Cash amounts were taken by riding-in-tandem suspects that held up a lending collector in Bago City and a delivery van in Manapla, Negros Occidental Monday morning.
Police Superintendent David Cachumbo, Jr., Bago City PNP chief identified the victim as John Daryl Hulo, 28, of Sitio Langka, Barangay 1 in La Carlota City.
A total of 19 families in Barangay Ma-ao, Bago City evacuated to the Barangay Gym due to sulfur smell after Kanlaon Volcano erupted at about 6:20 p.m., Tuesday.
City Administrator Rommel P. Tam, CDRRMO Jake Aizpuro with CHO Dr. Frances
Jalandoni, City Disaster Crisis Management Response Team of La Carlota conduct
an on-the-spot actual inspection on the damage brought by the eruption of
Kanla-on Volcano to root crops, plants, flowers, bushes, trees, roads, houses
and other infrastructure projects and properties for assessment and evaluation
report in Sitio Guintubdan, Barangay Ara-al, La Carlota City.* (CDRRMO-La
Carlota City photo)
A motorcycle driver was killed and his brother was injured along with two others who are driver and passenger of a delivery van along national road of Purok Maghiliugyon in Barangay Taloc, Bago City around 4:28 a.m. yesterday.
Police Superintendent David Cachumbo, Jr., Bago City PNP chief identified the victim as Roland Togle Gonzales, 24 years old, married of Purok Buhay-Buhay in Barangay Dulao, Bago City. He sustained head and body injuries and rushed to Bago City Hospital but was declared dead-on-arrival. He was thrown a few meters away from their motorcycle.
A total of P6 Million worth of agricultural equipment and farm tools were turned over to the farmers and irrigators’ associations from the different towns and cities of Negros Occidental, in a ceremony held in Bago City, yesterday.
Gov. Alfredo Marañon, Jr. (3rd from left) checks on the agricultural projects
that were turned over to farmers and irrigators’ associations from the different
towns and cities of the province, yesterday.* (Richard Malihan photos)
Central Negros Electric Cooperative, Inc. (CENECO) Bago Field Office (BFO) showed support to Bago City’s 50th Charter Anniversary through a series of activities recently conducted by the said field office.
Two more persons were killed in separate road accidents on Saturday and Sunday, in E.B. Magalona and Bago City, police reports disclosed.
Police Inspector Bonifacio Aral, acting E.B. Magalona police chief identified the victim as Erlinda Sancho, 65, of Purok Mabinuligon, Barangay Alicante in the town.
She died on arrival at Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City due to head and body injuries.
Sancho was crossing the road in Bangga Kawayan, Barangay Alicante when bumped by a speeding vehicle driven by Leonard de Asis, 30.
A civilian guard of Negros Coliseum cockpit and a policeman from Iloilo were killed in a shooting incident past 8:45 PM Monday in SP Village, Barangay Pahanocoy, Bacolod City.
Declared dead on arrival at Bacolod South General Hospital located in the barangay was Rex Villaluz, of legal age, native of Barangay Tabugon, Kabankalan City due to multiple gunshot wounds in the body.
A Canadian national was injured and his five other companions after they hit a mahogany tree in the national highway of Purok Malunggay, Barangay Pacol, Bago City around 9:00 AM, Tuesday.
Police Superintendent David Cachumbo, Jr., Bago City PNP chief identified the victim as Brian Gohannes Young, 40, single, Canadian national and temporarily billeted in Bacolod City.
