The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) has ordered a six-month preventive suspension of Cebu City Mayor Michael L. Rama and seven other local officials for their involvement in the non-payment of salaries of four city employees since July 2023. Also oOrdered suspended without pay were City Administrator...
BACOLOD CITY – One-hundred sixteen families composed of 580 individuals were evacuated following encounters between the military and New People’s Army in Sitio Tagok, Barangay Carol-an, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on Monday, May 6. MAP shows the location of Kabankalan City in Negros...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 45-year-old businessman for allegedly transporting four boxes of smuggled cigarettes worth P100,000 in a checkpoint in Barangay 1, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Monday night, May 6. POLICE intercepted allegedly smuggled cigarettes worth P100,000 in a...
The Muntinlupa City government won the Gawad Edukampyon award in the highly urbanized city category for its efforts in Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD). Muntinlupa won the award for its Supplementary Programs on Early Stimulation and Promotion of Proper Health and Nutrition. This...
The Pasig City government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasig (PLP), Quezon City University (QCU) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tuesday, May 7, for the conduct of the Executive Course for Barangay Leaders of Systems...
CEBU CITY – The driver of the vehicle that figured in a fatal hit-and-run here was finally arrested more than two months after the tragic incident. Operatives of the Abellana Police Station arrested Aaron Karl Tan past 2 p.m. on Monday, May 6. Police identified Tan as the driver of the Mazda CX7...
DAVAO CITY – Every day, 38-year-old Angelito Ducosaring wakes up at 4 a.m. to prepare food for his two children before going to school. DUCOSARING at work. (Keith Bacongco) Two hours later, he boards a jeep from Matina District here for a nine-kilometer ride to his mobile phone...
DAVAO CITY – Davao comics artist Ren Galeno was among the finalists of this year's prestigious Pulitzer Prize under Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for her works published in the Washington Post last year. ARTIST Ren Galeno at work in her home in Davao City on Tuesday, May 7....
A fire destroyed a home in Muntinlupa on May 7, causing P1.2 million in property damage. According to the Muntinlupa City Fire Station, the fire started at 7:45 a.m. at a three-storey house on Rosal Bergado Taas Compound in Summitville 2 in Barangay Putatan. The fire affected 18...
The Muntinlupa City government passed an ordinance setting the minimum fare for all tricycles with franchise. Ordinance No. 2024-171 increased the minimum tricycle fare to P12 from P10 based on the request of the Muntinlupa Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association, Inc.(FEDMUNTODAI). ...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government is preparing for the Philippine Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Games 2024 Visayas Regional Qualifying Leg from May 26 to June 1. MAYOR Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez and Sen. Francis Tolentino pose during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized 59 grams of suspected shabu valued at P401,000 from a woman and her nephew in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 3 here on Sunday, May 5. A WOMAN and her nephew were nabbed in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 3, Bacolod City on Sunday, May 5. (Photo courtesy...
