Two men drowned in resorts in Batangas on Black Saturday. Police identified the victims as Aldrin del Rosario and Michael Pacheco. Investigation said Del Rosario and cousin Isaac Corocoto jumped together into a pool in a resort in Barangay Matabungkay, Lian, and drowned. They were found unconscious...
BACOLOD CITY – Nineteen houses were razed by a fire in Talaba-an, Barangay Zone 1, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Black Saturday, April 19. NINETEEN houses were razed by a fire in Talaba-an, Barangay Zone 1, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Black Saturday, April 19. (Screengrab from Ramil...
CALAUAG, Quezon – A 34-year-old driver and his companion were killed when their vehicle collided head-on with a passenger bus on the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Madlandungan, this town, on Black Saturday. Police identified one of the fatalities as James, married, of Makati City. His companion...
CEBU CITY – A beach outing turned tragic when a motor banca capsized, killing two of four passengers in Badian, Cebu, on Black Saturday`. RESCUERS apply first aid to a passenger of a motor banca that sank off Badian town, Cebu province on Saturday, April 19. (Contributed photo) The...
ILOILO CITY — Thirty eight people were injured on Black Saturday, April 19, after an overloaded jeep flipped on its side in Miag-ao town, Iloilo province. The private jeep with 58 people (57 passengers and a driver) was on its way to a beach resort in San Joaquin town from Anilao town when the...
Black Saturday is the quietest day in the Christian liturgical calendar. Falling between the sorrow of Good Friday and the triumph of Easter Sunday, it is often passed over with little fanfare. Yet this day of silence and stillness holds profound spiritual meaning—a sacred pause that...
BACOLOD CITY – A beach cafe in Barangay Miranda, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, was razed in a fire at past midnight on Black Saturday. A FIRE razes a beach cafe in Barangay Miranda, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental on Black Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Maureen Andrea Soliguen) Senior...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth P21 million were seized and 16 suspected smugglers were arrested in Glan, Sarangani on Black Saturday. Police Brig. Gen. Percival Placer, Police Regional Office-12 chief, said lawmen found the smuggled cigarettes unloaded from a fishing...
BACOLOD CITY – A five-year-old boy drowned on a river in Linaw Bubong, Barangay San Miguel, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental on Black Saturday. MAP of La Carlota, Negros Occidental. Police said the victim, along with his father and older siblings, went to the river bank to feed their...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon – Four individuals drowned in Southern Luzon during the Holy Week. San Jose, Batangas A 32-year-old laborer drowned in a creek in Barangay Mojon Tampoy, San Jose, Batangas, on Good Friday. The victim, Joshua Planas, and five friends went to the creek for a drinking...
SANTA CRUZ, Ilocos Sur – Police rescued a four-year-old boy from drowning in the swimming pool of a beach resort in Barangay Sagat here on Black Saturday. Police Major Paul Vincent Tadeo, town chief of police, said the boy was accidentally pushed by another child into a deep portion of the...
BURDEOS, Quezon – Fourteen passengers were rescued from a boat that capsized in the sea in Barangay San Rafael, this town, on Black Saturday. MAP of Burdeos, Quezon. Police Lt. Sherwin Padua, duty officer at the port of San Rafael, received information that a private boat owned by Roy...
