Slain judge's kin seek review of DOJ dismissal of charges vs pols
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-22 00:50:24 -0700 | political-news
Negros Occidental The children of slain Kabankalan Judge Henry Arles on Tuesday filed a motion for reconsideration with the Department of Justice, seeking a reversal of its dismissal of a murder complaint against Negros Occidental Vice Governor Genaro Alvarez Jr.,...
Finally, dead prosecutor gets retirement pay
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-21 00:28:21 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesAlmost two years after his retirement and a month after his death, a government prosecutor will finally receive his retirement pay which was supposed to be used for his medical treatment. Cadiz City Prosecutor Marcelo del Pilar and 84 other...
Negros town mayor faces illegal gun charges
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-18 17:18:51 -0700 | travel-news
Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno Pena and four others for illegal possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives, and for harboring a criminal. The charges were filed at the Department of Justice in Manila on May 15, according to Senior Supt...Named respondents along...
Bishops accept Catholic vote not yet at its full strength in elections
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 06:52:44 -0700 | political-news
Philippines The Catholic Church's efforts to sway the electorate into supporting senatorial candidates it deemed good for the country ended in disappointment. Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles, who had publicly endorsed senatorial bets who fought the reproductive health law, said on...
Church issues sample ballots in Negros
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-10 19:40:00 -0700 | political-news
Catholic Church dioceses in Negros Occidental are distributing sample ballots containing the names of their chosen candidates who are considered as prolife. The Diocese of Bacolod began handing out sample ballots to churchgoers in all its churches urging them to...
Man gets life for selling P200 worth of shabu to cop in sting operation
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-08 00:26:01 -0700 | political-news
A local resident will have to spend the rest of his life in jail for selling P200 worth of shabu to a cop. Judge Raymond Joseph Javier of the Bacolod Regional Trial Court Branch 47 found Stephan Suarez Cabiles guilty...
DOJ junks murder charges vs Negros vice gov, mayor, vice mayor
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-07 01:23:08 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesThe Department of Justice has dismissed the murder charges filed against Negros Occidental Vice Gov. Genaro Alvarez Jr., his son Ilog Mayor John Paul Alvarez and Cauayan Vice Mayor Jerry Tabujara for the killing of Kabankalan Judge Henry Arles in...
Philippines' Roman Catholic Church's influence wanes
Source: Japan Times
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-05 08:32:08 -0700 | political-news
In cathedrals around the Philippines, huge black-and-red banners are asking the faithful to choose between Team Life and Team Death, with priests warning the nation's soul is at stake. The signs are part of efforts by the Catholic church to...
5 soldiers killed in clash with NPA in Negros
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-04 01:36:10 -0700 | travel-news
PhilippinesFive Army soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an encounter with New People's Army rebels on Saturday in a mountain village outside Sipalay City, 178 kilometers south of this city. The soldiers, belonging to the 47th Infantry Batallion,...
P3M fake money may be circulating in Negros Occidental — cops
Source: GMA News
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-03 19:53:11 -0700 | political-news
P3M fake money may be circulating in Negros Occidental cops May 4, 2013 9:40am Some P3 million in fake bills that could be used to buy votes may have started circulating in Negros Occidental province in Western Visayas alone, the...
Pulupandan mayor's house raided
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-01 21:14:49 -0700 | travel-news
Philippines Police raided the home of Mayor Magdaleno Pena of Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, on a charge of illegal possession of firearms. A number of high-powered firearms were found in the house in Barangay (village) Ubay, Pulupandan, 31 kilometers south of...
Fire guts 100 houses in Bacolod City
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-24 01:30:27 -0700 | travel-news
PhilippinesFire gutted at least 100 houses in a depressed area in Bacolod City shortly past noon Wednesday, a fire official said. Chief Inspector Bartolome Biliran, Bacolod City fire marshal, said they received a call about the fire in heavily populated...
2 of Negros jail escapees recaptured; P140k reward offered for 11 others
Source: GMA News
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-20 00:33:51 -0700 | disasters-news
Negros jail escapees recaptured; P140k reward offered for 11 others April 20, 2013 3:02pm At least two of 13 inmates who escaped from a jail in Sagay City in Negros Occidental Wednesday were recaptured Friday afternoon, even as authorities offered...
13 inmates with gun escape from Philippine jail
Source: Boston.com
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-17 07:05:27 -0700 | political-news
Philippines (AP) Philippine police say 13 inmates, some accused of murder, have escaped from a provincial jail in a central province using a smuggled gun to disarm guards...Ricardo de la Paz says the inmates pointed a pistol and improvised knives...
Negros Occidental gov sues mayor for libel
Source: Inquirer.net
Bacolod :: Philippines | updated 2013-04-17 06:31:22 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesNegros Occidental Governor Alfredo Maranon Jr. has sued for libel Pulupundan Mayor Magdaleno Pena and sought P7 million in damages for claiming in a local newspaper article that he is having delusions and dementia. In a complaint filed before the...
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