With oil prices continuously rising due to the Middle East conflict, the Pasig local government will implement a temporary four-day compressed workweek for city hall employees beginning Monday, April 13, and will further intensify mandatory energy conservation measures. The local government said...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has affirmed the disallowance on the use by Puerto Princesa City of P10 million for the liquidation of cash advances for the Mindoro-Marinduque-Romblon-Palawan (MIMAROPA) Regional Athletic Association Meet (MRAAM) and Palarong Pambansa in 2008. In its notice of...
The Caloocan City Police Station (CCPS) apprehended 172 ordinance violators in a late-night Oplan Galugad operation across North and South Caloocan on Thursday, Apr. 9. The operation, launched around 10 p.m. under Police Colonel Joey T. Goforth and led by PLt. Col. Ilustre K. Mendoza, stepped up...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The MV Sug Adventure, a passenger vessel, collided with a motorboat in the sea of Santa Cruz Island here on Friday night, April 10. An initial report by the Philippine Coast Guard said the MV Sug Adventure was traversing the sea when a motor banca suffered a carburetor...
BACOLOD CITY – A barangay health aide was killed and 11 others were injured in a collision between a delivery van and a truck in Sitio Punod, Barangay Rizal, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Friday, April 10. Police Lt. Col. Nazer Canja, San Carlos police chief, said the delivery...
A fire broke out at the Navotas Sanitary Landfill in Barangay Tanza, Navotas City on Friday night, Apr. 10, and remains ongoing as of this writing. The Navotas City Fire Station said the blaze started at around 7:59 p.m. and has yet to be contained. Authorities said the landfill, located on an...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office mourned the death of Police Master Sgt. Romulo Galvez Jr. in a buy-bust operation Thursday. Galvez was remembered as a snappy warrant officer and operative. Police Col. Eugene Rebadomia, Bacolod police director, said Galvez gave his life in the...
CEBU CITY – A 63-year-old man died while his wife was wounded in an alleged accidental firing in Barangay Bagakay, Toledo City, Cebu on Friday morning, April 10. Police said Merto Goc-ong was hit in the stomach after his improvised shotgun went off. Goc-ong 's body was found in his home....
CEBU CITY – Close to 1,000 individuals were apprehended in the second day of the implementation of the Safer Cities Initiative here. Police Col. George Ylanan, chief of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), said that under the initiative, local ordinances have been strictly enforced for the past...
BACOLOD CITY – Security forces and emergency responders in Negros Occidental are gearing up for the 30th Panaad sa Negros Festival from April 13 to 19. This weekend, close to 900 police personnel will be deployed for the week-long festival at the Panaad Park and Stadium here while the Provincial...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – More than 2,000 drivers and operators of public utility jeepneys and tricycles here received fuel subsidy from the city government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development from Wednesday to Thursday. The city government distributed financial subsidies amounting to...
Authorities are hunting down suspects who posed as local government birthday cake delivery staff and robbed a house in Quezon City, reportedly stealing over P1 million worth of cash, vehicles, and other valuables. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said the incident occurred inside the house of...
