BACOLOD CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed in a clash with soldiers in Sitio Sug-ong, Barangay Milagrosa, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on Thursday, January 18. ONE communist rebel was killed in an encounter with soldiers in Barangay Milagrosa, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental...
ILOILO CITY – Two soldiers were wounded in an encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Igpaho, Tubungan town, Iloilo province on Wednesday, January 17. TWO soldiers were wounded in an encounter in Tubungan, Iloilo on January 17. Lt. Col. J-Jay Javines, spokesperson of the 3rd...
BUTUAN CITY – Seven New People’s Army (NPA) fighters surrendered to the police in Caraga on Monday, January 15. Police Regional Office-13 Regional Public Information Office (RPIO) chief Police Major Jennifer S. Ometer said these communist guerillas decided to return to the fold of the law to...
BACOLOD CITY – Two New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were killed in a clash with soldiers in Hacienda Gomez, Barangay Sag-ang, La Castellana, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, January 17. The Army 62nd Infantry Battalion has yet to identify the casualties. TROOPS recover an AR15 rifle, a homemade...
BUTUAN CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed and an undetermined number of his comrades were wounded in a gun battle with soldiers in Sitio Calaitan, Barangay Simbalan, Buenavista town, Agusan del Norte province on Tuesday, January 16. A COMMUNIST rebel was killed in a gun...
BACOLOD CITY – The Army 79th Infantry Battalion captured a New People’s Army (NPA) camp in an encounter in the hinterlands of Sitio Martesan, Barangay Cambayobo, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Monday, January 15. A NEW People’s Army (NPA) camp was captured by the military in Barangay...
BACOLOD CITY – Two New People’s Army (NPA) rebels have surrendered to the police and turned over firearms and explosives in Negros Occidental. AN elderly communist rebel receives assistance from the police after he surrendered in Talisay City, Negros Occidental on January 14. (Photo via Glazyl...
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Three communist rebels surrendered in Central Luzon and pledged allegiance to the government on Monday, January 15. The Police Regional Office-3 identified the surrenderers as Ka Keno, Ka Loi, and Eliong. Ka Keno of the Sandatahang Yunit Pampropaganda in...
TACLOBAN CITY – The 63rd Infantry (Innovator) Battalion discovered a New People’s Army arms cache composed of four AK47 assault rifles, five upper receivers of M16 rifles with bolt assembly, five long magazines of AK47, and two disc-type magazines of AK47 rifle in the hinterlands of Sitio...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva called on the Departments of Migrant Workers (DMW) and Foreign Affairs (DFA) to ensure that no overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in New Zealand would be deprived of their salary and benefits on time. Villanueva made the call following reports that...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Writing about Philippine tourism over my last two columns, some readers reached out to me and remarked that perhaps I was too critical of what seems to be our game plan, of pointing out our deficiencies when compared to our ASEAN neighbors. To those...
President Marcos said his administration’s amplified campaign against internal threats has been successful, as he reported that there were no more active New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla fronts in the Philippines. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Bongbong Marcos/Instagram) In a...
