CEBU CITY – Four fishermen went missing while fishing in the sea of Kinatarcan Island in Sta. Fe town, northern Cebu province on Friday, Dec. 23. They were identified as Gilbert Pepito, 37; Gaspar Yassi, 45; Louie Lubitos, 34, and Redol Yassi, 42. The Philippine Coast Guard-Central Visayas...
Authorities have conducted a search and rescue (SAR) operation to find four fishermen who, two days before Christmas, went missing while venturing at sea in Cebu while the province was being battered by gale force winds due to northeast monsoon. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) The missing fishermen...
Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has approved the dismissal of five policemen tagged in the kidnapping of a master agent of online cockfighting, or e-sabong, in Laguna last year. PNP chief information officer Col. Redrico Maranan said the dismissal was based...
At least nine people were reported to have died in a fire that hit a two-storey house in Muntinlupa City on Sunday morning, Dec. 18. Muntinlupa City fire marshall Supt. Eugene Briones said the fatalities were found on the ground floor of the house in Barangay Putatan. At least one person remains...
Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Monday, Dec. 5, a crackdown on what he describes as guerrilla operations of online cockfighting following reports that there are some groups that continue to defy a presidential directive to put a stop on the online...
A video secretly taken through a smartphone became a major breakthrough in the continuous investigation into the missing cockfighting players, or sabungeros, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) disclosed on Thursday, Dec. 1. CIDG director Police Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said the...
BUGUEY, Cagayan – The body of a three-year-old boy was found floating on a river here on Saturday, Nov. 26. The child was identified as Prince Arvin Tatad, a resident of this town. Sheena Talla of the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said Tatad’s mother reported to their...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said that it has “intensified” its search for missing labor activists Alipio Juat and Elizabeth Magbanua after the Court of Appeals (CA) apparently held the military liable for their disappearance. Alipio Juat and Elizabeth Magbanua (Courtesy of AFP) In...
APARRI, Cagayan – The body of a passenger missing after their boat sank on the Cagayan River in Barangay Macanaya here on Friday was found on Sunday, Nov. 13. The victim was identified as Erold Leste. Leste was found by a fisherman who probed the Cagayan River. Seven of his companions were...
CAVITE – Authorities located on Wednesday, Aug. 24, the 13-year-old boy reported missing on the day of his first face-to-face classes in Trece Martires on Aug. 23. Trece Martires City Police Station (CPS) said they found Bobby Quezon Jr. in Rosario, Cavite. "Isinama ng mga kaibigan niya at...
DAGUPAN CITY – A 47-year-old single parent reported missing by his relatives Monday, Aug. 22, was found floating on the Pantal River in Barangay Pantal here Tuesday, Aug. 23. AUTO painter James Dioquino went fishing on a river in Dagupan City but failed to return home. His body was later found...
TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite – A Grade 8 student went missing on Tuesday, Aug. 23, the first day he was supposed to attend face-to-face classes in his school. Joena Quezon said they dropped off her son, Bobby Quezon Jr., in his school before his class at 12:30 p.m. "Kahapon po ang first day...
