CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City – The newly formed Area Task Force-North held a virtual meeting here on August 24 to discuss an intensified approach towards fortifying maritime security within Northern Luzon. Lt. Gen. Fernyl G. Buca, Northern Luzon Command and ATF-North chief, said that he organized the...
ILOILO CITY – A barangay “tanod” or watchman yielded suspected shabu and an unlicensed firearm and grenade in a buy-bust operation in San Enrique town, Iloilo province on Sunday, August 20. Police identified the suspect as John Paul Eulatriz Baclagon of Barangay Bagacay, San Enrique. The...
GUEST COLUMNIST By Lt. Gen. Jaime S. de los Santos, AFP (Ret) Last July 21, 2023, the leadership of the AFP changed hands. Gen Andres Centino turned over the position to Gen Romeo Brawner Jr. Succession to the highest leadership of command is predicated on a new retirement law that gives a...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Fifty police officers from the Police Regional Office-Cordillera successfully completed the Police Community Affairs and Development Course (PCADC) from June 9 to August 18. They received their certificates of completion in a closing ceremony at Maringal Hall in this...
ILOILO CITY — Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. led the awarding of outstanding police units and police officers in Western Visayas. PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. (second from right) leads the awarding...
ILOILO CITY – Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. said the big volume of shabu seized across Western Visayas is a manifestation of the strong support of the people to lawmen. “Masigasig ang ating mga kapulisan. Pero marami din nagsusumbong sa ating kapulisan...
ILOILO CITY – The Police Regional Office-6 awarded a lawman killed in an encounter with the New People’s Army in Calatrava, Negros Occidental on August 9. POLICE Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor, Police Regional Office-6 director, salutes the casket of slain Police Corporal Jaime Nuñez during a...
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. has designated Police Major Gen. Jonnel Estomo as the new head of the Area Police Command-Western Mindanao (APC-WM). Estomo replaced Police Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. who bowed out of the service on Thursday upon reaching the...
Owing to profit contribution of its all-renewable energy (RE) subsidiary, First Gen Corporation has posted a 30 percent hike in its recurring net income to $167 million, approximately P9.0 billion, in the first half of the year versus $128 million or P7.0 billion, in the same period last...
The dates August 1 and 2 of 2023 are memorable for a lot of gen-X and millenials as they spent the evening watching Alanis Morissette sing her hit songs. This writer, for one, had tears welling up when she saw Alanis’ family photos flashed on the screen. “I’m happy for her. I’m...
ILOILO CITY – Police Regional Office-6 chief Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor has condemned the policeman who fired a gun in front of three civilians in this city. “We will not tolerate this kind of attitude within our ranks,” said Villaflor, two days after Police Staff Sgt. Nico F....
BARRACKS AND STRATEGY By Lt. Gen. Aurelio B. Baladad (Ret) As the CSAFP (Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines) was recently installed and a change of command for the CGPA (Commanding General Philippine Army) occurs today, a sense of excitement and hope permeates the ranks of...
