The Taguig Police scored a major drug haul when they seized P4.8-million worth of shabu on Jan. 22. The buy-bust operation in Barangay South Signal, conducted by the Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU), also led to the arrest of a female suspect identified as alias Sherhana, 32, who was...
BACOLOD CITY – A 50-bed hospital will soon rise in Barangay Tinampaan, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. GOV. Eugenio Jose Lacson (right) and Mayor Salvador Escalante Jr. lay down a time capsule during the groundbreaking ceremony for the P270-million Cadiz City Medical Center in...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bago City government has built 14 modern nipa huts for Kanlaon Volcano evacuees in a seven-hectare relocation site in Barangay Napoles, Bago City. NIPA huts for Kanlaon Volcano evacuees in Barangay Napoles, Bago City, Negros Occidental. (Photo via the Citybridge)...
BACOLOD CITY – The City Council has approved a P5-million financial assistance to support the staging of the 20th Bacolaodiat Festival this year. BACOLOD City officials headed by Mayor Albee Benitez, Bacolaodiat Festival chairman John Stephen Sy (third from left), and Bob Cordova...
CEBU CITY – Dismissed Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes welcomed the issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order by the Supreme Court that allowed him to seek reelection in May. Cortes denied allegations that a P1-million bribe was involved in the granting of the TRO against the Commission on...
ILOILO CITY – This city had the second highest inflation rate in the country last December but a bank executive sees this as a sign of the growth and development here. EASTWEST CEO Jerry Ngo (right) and Chief Investment Officer Bede Gomez speak during an economic briefing in Iloilo...
DAVAO CITY – Six years since being at the helm of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, interim Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim reiterated that education remains as among the keys in solving peace and sustaining development in the region. BARMM officials during the...
ILOILO CITY – Anthony Barredo Aguirre, a taxi driver here, was feted for returning P2.4 million in cash left by his passenger inside his vehicle on Jan. 18. AGUIRRE (Office of Congressman Gorriceta) The passenger, a businesswoman, inadvertently left the bag in the A&A Marie Taxi driven...
A 23-year-old man was nabbed by the police for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition in Taguig on Jan. 21. The suspect, identified as alias Ryan, was apprehended by the Taguig Police at about 5:40 p.m. in Barangay New Lower Bicutan. His arrest was made after the police received...
A man, tagged as a high value individual, was arrested in a buy-bust operation by the Southern Police District (SPD) in Taguig. The suspect, alias Alex, 51, was apprehended by police operatives from the SPD’s Drug Enforcement Unit in Barangay Central Bicutan. The suspect and the shabu...
Baguio City has always served as the go-to vacation spot for most of us to cool down and escape the tropical heat, earning it the title as the Summer Capital of the Philippines. Temperatures in the beloved destination can go as low as 15°C during the cool season. It’s also home to a...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A police officer allegedly raped a 17-year-old student here. Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, city police director, has placed the suspect, a police master sergeant assigned at the Police Station 3 here, under restrictive custody while charges for rape and grave misconduct are...
