New Year’s Eve celebration in Rizal Province was generally peaceful despite the 52 firecrackers-related and one stray bullet injuries recorded in the province. Rizal Police Provincial Office (PPO) Director Col. Felipe Maraggun said firecrackers-related incidents were recorded as of 11 a.m....
CAMP NAKAR, Lucena City – The New Year in Quezon province was generally peaceful. The Quezon Police Provincial Office said no major untoward incidents were recorded on New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day. “Ang pagsalubong ng mga Quezonian ng Bagong Taon ay ligtas at mapayapa,” said Police...
CAMP JUAN, Ilocos Norte – The New Year celebration in this province was generally peaceful, police said. Police Col. Julius Suriben, Ilocos Norte police director, said the province recorded no stray bullet incidents and tourist-related incidents as of 6 a.m. on January 1. However, Suriben said...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – The number of fireworks-related injuries in Bicol doubled in 2023 compared to the same period in 2022. Based on the injury registry update of Department of Health-Bicol sentinel sites as of 6 a.m. on January 1, the region had 33 cases, a 100 percent jump from only 20 in...
SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan – Two persons were wounded when a 32-year-old man allegedly fired his gun to welcome the New Year in Barangay Longos Central, this town, before dawn on Monday, January 1. MAP of San Fabian, Pangasinan. The suspect was identified as Keempee Serran Marcella of Barangay...
AGONCILLO, Batangas – Two brothers were stabbed by their drinking buddy on New Year’s Eve in Sitio Tuba, Barangay Banyaga, this town. Police identified the victims as Jovel Necerio, 33, and Erwin Necerio, 25. The Necerios and the suspect, “Abraham,” 49, were having a drinking spree to...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe and House Majority Leader Zamboanga City Rep. Mannix Dalipe led the first-ever New Year Countdown and Grand Fireworks Display here on Sunday, December 31, within the vicinity of a mall in this city. A GRAND fireworks display ushers in 2024 in Zamboanga...
ILOILO CITY – A stray bullet incident was reported in Pavia town, Iloilo province as Ilonggos welcomed the New Year. An initial report from the Pavia Municipal Police Station said a bullet was found in the kitchen of a house at Deca Homes 3 in Barangay Balabag. The homeowners said they discovered...
SANTA, Ilocos Sur – Two construction workers died in a motorcycle accident on the national highway in Barangay Rizal here on New Year’s Eve. Police identified the victims as Ernel Custodia Jr., 25, driver of the motorcycle, and his back rider, Arnold Saraos, 22, both residents of Barangay Basug...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 62-year-old man was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle a pack of suspected shabu for his detained son in Ormoc City on New Year’s Eve. Police identified the suspect as Aurelio Basete. Basete arrived at the Ormoc City Jail Male Dormitory in Barangay Altavista to bring...
Two weather systems are currently affecting the county, particularly Northern and Central Luzon, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) on Monday, Jan. 1. (MB Visual Content Group) Weather specialist Obet Badrina, in PAGASA’s latest...
The government’s aid and assistance programs are not meant to make Filipinos dependent on them, but are implemented to enable the impoverished “to graduate from poverty,” President Marcos said in his New Year message to Filipinos. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong Marcos Jr. delivers his New...
