CEBU CITY – A 26-year-old man was arrested for his alleged involvement in last year’s broad daylight killing of a barangay captain and his wife in Asturias town, Cebu province. ROBERT Ubalde was arrested as a suspect in the killing of a barangay captain and his wife in Asturias town, Cebu last...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A former barangay captain and his companion were gunned down in Indanan, Sulu on Saturday, Dec. 21. INDANAN MPS patrol car. (Indanan MPS FB) Police identified the victims as Faizal Ibrahim Biao, former barangay captain of Kandaga, Talipao, Sulu, and Fadjiri Abdurajan Biao....
ILOILO CITY – A barangay captain and her husband were shot dead in Dueñas town, Iloilo province, on Thursday morning, Dec. 5. The Dueñas Municipal Police Station identified the fatality as Barangay Captain Michelle Lapastora Lamela of Barangay Santo Niño. Investigation said...
ILOILO CITY — The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) is investigating how the gun owned by AAMBIS-Owa party-list Rep. Lex Colada was used by a murder suspect in the killing of a former barangay captain in Tigbauan town, Iloilo province. COL. Bayani Razalan (center) speaks in a press...
CAMP JUAN, Ilocos Norte – Ilocos Norte police director Police Col. Frederick E. Obar has created a Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) to probe the murder of barangay chairman Mark Adrian P. Barba and his two companions in Barangay 22 San Guillermo, San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte before dawn...
SAN NICOLAS, Ilocos Norte – A barangay captain and his two companions were gunned down in Barangay 22 San Guillermo here before dawn on Saturday, Oct. 26. Police identified the victims as Mark Adrian P. Barba, barangay captain of Barangay 6 San Juan Bautista and Association of Barangay Captain...
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...
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...
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...
CEBU CITY – A barangay captain in the City of Naga, southern Cebu was arrested for allegedly using a fake certificate authorizing registration (CAR), a document issued by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to transfer a property. Edden Gera Nocon of Barangay Tinaan was arrested in a hot pursuit...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has condemned the separate attacks that resulted in the deaths of three barangay (village) officials in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Sur. The first attack last Aug. 18, involved Barangay Bulibod Chairman Esmael Latip Mustapha and his wife, Rahima,...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has condemned the killing of South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur Vice Mayor Roldan Benito and his bodyguard Weng Marcos last August 2. The ambush of Benito and Marcos happened in in Barangay Pandan. The two were with Benito's family in a pickup truck when they were...
