CEBU CITY – An international boxing judge and radio personality on Tuesday, September 24, filed a string of criminal complaints, including plunder and graft, against a congresswoman and her husband in Mandaue City. INTERNATIONAL boxing judge and radio broadcaster Edward Ligas shows voluminous...
A barangay chairman and his son were shot dead in Barangay Lapting, San Juan, Ilocos Sur on Monday night, September 23. Police identified the victims as Barangay Caronoan, San Juan, Ilocos Sur Captain Bello Joseph Padua Valorozo, 52, and his son, Jumar Sotelo Valorozo, 24, farmer, also of...
Rizal 4th district Rep. Fidel Nograles (PPAB) Rizal 4th district Rep. Fidel Nograles reminded barangay officials that they cannot deny the use of covered courts and other facilities for government activities, based on a memorandum from the Department...
As the 2025 midterm national election approaches, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said it has started monitoring incidents of threats, harassment, and violence against elective officials like those in the barangay (village) level. "We stress that these acts incite fear across communities and...
Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar (center) (Rep. Villar's office) For House Deputy Speaker Las Pinas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar, the value of barangay councilors or "kagawads" cannot be understated. In her...
SAN NICOLAS, Ilocos Norte – The chairman of Barangay 5, San Silvestre, this town, was gunned down on Friday night, September 20. A FORENSICS investigator processes the house of a barangay chairman in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte after he was shot dead on Friday night, September 20. ...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has started its probe on the killing last Aug. 31 of Rodrigo Tanagas, barangay (village) chairman of Tulay-A, in Maragondon, Cavite. Tanagas was gunned down by a riding-in-tandem while he was helping health workers cut grass in their barangay. The motive behind...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Rep. Yamsuan’s Facebook) Barangay watchmen or "tanods" deserve a Christmas bonus too, according to Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan. That's why Yamsuan penned and filed...
Stephen Holt and Kier John ‘Bong’ Quinto get a share of center stage in the PBA Press Corps Awards Night for the first time as they will be bestowed with separate honors during the 30th edition of the event next week at the Novotel Manila Araneta City. Barangay Ginebra's Stephen Holt (PBA...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has mobilized its personnel in the Southern Tagalog Region in the investigation on the killing of a 16-year-old boy last Sept. 8 inside a barangay (village) hall in Cabuyao City in Laguna. "Although criminal acts like theft are not to be excused, it is...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) A neophyte congressman has echoed Speaker Martin Romualdez's proposal to provide additional insurance benefits to barangay workers and institute retroactive pay increases for local...
Japeth Aguilar put up his best offensive performance in the last four years while Justin Brownlee finished with a triple-double as Barangay Ginebra fended off Phoenix, 110-101, to notch its first win streak in the PBA Season 49 Governors’ Cup at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium on Friday, Sept. 6....
