DAVAO CITY – Former President Rodrigo Duterte won’t return to the Philippines as long as Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is president, Davao City first district Rep. Paolo Duterte said Monday. Speaking to Duterte supporters outside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Rep. Duterte said his...
DAVAO CITY – City government officials criticized on Monday, Jan. 12, the renewed move to file an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Z. Duterte, describing the effort as politically motivated and a distraction from more pressing concerns. Speaking at the Pulong-Pulong sa Dabawenyos...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Ormoc City government has ordered the closure of the nearly century-old Ormoc Maternity and Children’s Hospital, citing multiple violations of its memorandum of agreement with the local government, Mayor Lucy Torres Gomez said in a statement on Monday. Gomez said the closure...
A working student lost her cellphone and thousands of pesos in class funds after a man took the device while it was charging inside a store in Barangay Bignay, Valenzuela City, on Sunday, Jan. 11. According to the Valenzuela City Police Station (VCPS) and barangay officials, the incident occurred...
CEBU CITY – The regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment-Central Visayas (DOLE-7) has asked the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas to investigate the legal officer of the City Traffic Management System (CTMS) and an associate city prosecutor in Lapu-Lapu City. DOLE-7 chief Roy...
Senator Imee Marcos has filed a resolution seeking to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation into the compliance of sanitary landfills with the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, as well as other applicable laws. This was after the deadly collapse of the Binaliw Sanitary Landfill in...
An overheated fryer is being eyed as the cause of a fire that hit a convenience store in Barangay 655, Intramuros, Manila, early Monday morning, Jan. 12, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said. Based on the initial report, the crew of the convenience store were changing the fryer 's oil when...
CEBU CITY – Nine bodies have been recovered from the collapsed building that was buried by a pile of garbage when a dumpsite caved in last week in Barangay Binaliw here. Councilor Dave Tumulak, chairman of the City Council Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee, said the last fatality...
The Philippine Navy (PN) on Monday said the Naval Forces Central (NFC), the naval command responsible for Visayas, has deployed a search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) team to help in the ongoing rescue mission following the landslide at the landfill in Barangay Binaliw in Cebu City last Jan. 8. In a...
BAGUIO CITY – The city government led by Mayor Benjamin Magalong and officials of the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation Inc. (BFFFI) on Monday unveiled at the Baguio City Hall the calendar of activities for the month-long celebration of the 30th Panagbenga or Baguio Flower Festival. The...
A total of 21,651 preschoolers in Manila will receive free milk courtesy of the city government under the “Yormilk: Kaagapay ng Batang Maynila sa Paglaki” program of Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso aimed at curbing malnutrition and foster the growth of children enrolled in public...
SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna – An eight-year-old Grade 3 pupil was brutally murdered in Barangay Santiago 2, this city, on Friday, Jan. 9. Police identified the victim as Gianni Rick Nodero. Investigation said Nodero was waiting for his father to take him to school when he suddenly disappeared. The...
