BATANGAS -- A chief of police in a Batangas town died after the sport utility vehicle (SUV) he was driving smashed into a 10-wheeler truck in Barangay Tulo in Taal town early Wednesday morning, June 29. Major Amiel Bernardo Sanhi Jr., assigned at Lian Municipal Police Station, and a resident of...
BATANGAS CITY – A hollow block making livelihood program for communities affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano was launched by the Department of Science and Technology-Region 4-A (Calabarzon or the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon area) and Batangas Provincial Science and...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police arrested Wednesday, June 22, an alleged hired killer in Barangay Mataas na Lupa, Lipa City, Batangas. Police Brig. Gen. Antonio Yarra, Police Regional Office 4-A director, identified the suspect as Alvin Buenavista, 25, of Tiaong, Quezon. Buenavista was a...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Tuesday, June 14, inaugurated the P1.23 billion upgraded Integrated Passenger Terminal Building (PTB) of the Port of Batangas , Batangas City. The 15,000 square meter (sqm) PTB features fully air-conditioned lounges and Persons With Disability...
The mayor of Taal, Batangas has urged residents to drink bottled water for the meantime as the local government unit (LGU) is looking for an alternative source of potable water after their water supply was contaminated by arsenic. Taal Mayor Pong Mercado declared that 10 barangays in the...
There is not much mainstream fanfare for passion fruits ( Passiflora edulis ) here in the Philippines. The yellow variety the country has is sour and there is not much to eat on the fruit except its seedy pulp. But once upon a time, a booming industry that centered on this fruit thrived in Taysan,...
A basket of freshly harvested passion fruit. (Jerome Sagcal) Passion fruit ( Passiflora edulis ) is usually eaten by scooping out the pulp. The pulp, however, is only a small portion of the fruit, so most of the passion fruit is actually not used. The big remainder of the fruit is its flesh, which...
Several public buildings in Calatagan, Batangas sustained minor cracks after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit on Sunday morning, May 22. (Photo courtesy of Calatagn MDRRMO) Ronald Torres, chief of Calatagan municipal disaster risk reduction and management office (MDRRMO), said cracks were noted at...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna -- A rookie policeman shot dead an amok that stabbed a tricycle driver on Saturday morning in Barangay Ilat North in San Pascual, Batangas. According to the report reaching Police Regional Office-4A (PRO4A), the suspect was identified as Rolly Axalan, 45, a resident of San...
Robinsons Land, one of the Philippines' leading real estate developers, virtually unveiled last April 2, 2022 its first premier luxury horizontal enclave, Forbes Estates Lipa – a master planned community that affords its residents the elusive luxury of space, time, and a life well-lived. Main...
House Speaker Lord Alan Velasco has condoled with the Mandanas family over the passing of former Marinduque Rep. Gina Reyes-Mandanas. Batangas Governor Hermilando Mandanas (left) and former Marinduque Rep. Gina Reyes-Mandanas (Photo from Hermilando Mandanas's Facebook) "We are deeply saddened by...
What was supposed to be a fun swimming event turned out tragic as five children went missing in Balete, Batangas on Tuesday, May 3. In an incident report, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said the children took a dip at the vicinity waters off Barangay Looc that is part of Taal Lake when they went...
