LUCENA CITY, Quezon – A 20-year-old woman was killed in a fire that razed an apartment on Easter Sunday in Barangay Ibabang Dupay, this city. Lucena City police chief Police Lt. Col. Dennis de Guzman identified the victim as Lea Bautista. Investigation said the fire started at 10:12 a.m. The fire...
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...
BUTUAN CITY – The Panaad 2025 or Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) on Good Friday, April 18, here was generally peaceful, police said. A POLICE outpost on the Panaad trail in Butuan City. Police said hundreds of Catholic devotees climbed the annual Panaad Via Crucis mountain trail in Barangay...
Trabaho party-list reiterated its vow to support workers as they recently barnstormed the province of Zamboanga del Norte. The party-list represented by second nominee Ninai Chavez earned support from the slate of Mayor Darel Dexter Uy, who is running for governor of the province during the Kuyog...
BACOLOD CITY – The Diocese of Bacolod is mourning the death of three individuals in a road accident during a Good Friday evening procession in Barangay Alangilan here. THREE persons were killed and 17 others, including two policemen, were injured when a red Toyota Innova driven by an Indian...
The Muntinlupa City government has enacted an ordinance institutionalizing and localizing the Government Internship Program (GIP), which offers up to six months of paid public service internships to high school graduates. Ordinance No. 2025-332, or the Muntinlupa City Government Internship...
ILOILO CITY — After returning to the country late last year from exile, former Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog here participated in the Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross) on Good Friday. FORMER Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog of Iloilo City carries the cross during the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) on Good...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - More than 20,000 Catholic devotees attended the yearly pilgrimage to the Abong Abong Park in Pasonanca here for the Holy Week. The Mobile Command Center estimated the crowd on Maundy Thursday to have reached 20,592. People continue to troop to the area today, Good...
CAMP MARCELO A. ADDURU, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan - Police arrested a notorious 33-year-old alleged illegal firearms dealer in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Alibagu, City of Ilagan, Isabela on Wednesday, April 16. The suspect, alias “Carding”, a resident of Barangay Banquero, Reina Mercedes,...
More than 5 million devotees, some barefooted, walked from different parts of Metro Manila to join the annual trek to Antipolo City in Rizal Province on Thursday night, April 17. (Photo from Antipolo Cathedral's Facebook page) Rizal Police Provincial Office Director Col. Felipe Maraggun said around...
For many Muntinlupa residents, the Holy Week meant a walking pilgrimage on Holy Thursday to the Diocesan Shrine of Jesus in the Holy Sepulchre in Barangay Landayan, San Pedro, Laguna. The devotees, who also came from other areas, went to the shrine to see Lolo Uweng or the “miraculous image...
Three Chinese nationals claiming to have links within the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) were nabbed for extortion. Arrested individuals identied as Changao He, Yong Pin Pang, and Ming Wei Xiong (Photo courtesy of PAOCC) Police identified the suspects as Changao He, Yong Pin...
