The national government posted a ₱68.4 billion surplus in January 2025 as revenues outpaced spending, according to the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr). However, the January 2025 surplus was smaller than the ₱88 billion recorded in the same month in 2024. Last year, only January, April, and...
The government’s total revenue collections for 2024 reached ₱4.419 trillion, surpassing the ₱4.270 trillion target and marking the highest revenue effort in 27 years at nearly 17 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). The budget deficit narrowed slightly by ₱5.7...
Authorities arrested five individuals, including a high-value drug pusher, in two separate buy-bust operations in Rizal, and seized P1,230,800 worth of shabu and firearms. High-value drug pusher arrested during a buy-bust operation in Antipolo City on January 29. (Photo from Rizal PPO) In Antipolo...
With 19 affirmative votes, the Senate approved the measure seeking to grant Philippine citizenship to Chinese national Li Duan Wang. Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros opposes the bill granting Philippine citizenship to Li Duan Wang. During Monday’s plenary session, January 27,...
(File photo) Are you going to travel by sea to go to the province for the New Year’s revelry? You might want to check the list of firecrackers that are not allowed to be transported in ports as released by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) to ensure that the traveling public will have a safe...
ILOILO CITY – More than P1.8-million worth of suspected shabu was seized from six suspected drug pushers in buy-bust operations here during a 24-hour period. The Iloilo City Police Office conducted the operations from 5 a.m. on Nov. 4 to 5 a.m. on Nov. 5 that yielded 263 grams of shabu. SUSPECTED...
CEBU CITY – Suspected shabu amounting to P50 million was seized in buy-bust operations in the cities of Cebu and Mandaue on Tuesday night, Oct. 29. SUSPECTED shabu worth P35 million was seized from a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tejero, Cebu City on Tuesday night, Oct. 29....
ILOILO CITY – Suspected shabu weighing 1.2 kilos valued at more than P8.7 million was confiscated from two drug pushers in buy-bust operations from 4 a.m. Oct. 17 to 4 a.m. Oct. 18. SUSPECTED shabu worth P8.7 million was seized from two drug pushers in Iloilo City. Thirty-year-old Boss...
ILOILO CITY— Police confiscated suspected shabu worth P2.2 million from 16 drug pushers in buy-bust operations in Western Visayas region in 24 hours. The Police Regional Office-6 reported that 325 grams of shabu were seized from 6 a.m. on October 1 to 5:59 a.m. on October 2. Four...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is eyeing to improve the incentive regime for the upstream petroleum industry with the proposed ‘special allowance’ to be extended to operators in marginal petroleum blocks, as well as new plays and frontier acreages. In a draft DOE Circular, it has been...
A former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief supposedly helped dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Leal Guo escape the Philippines at the height of the Senate’s investigation into the illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO). Retired Gen. Raul Villanueva, Philippine...
ILOILO CITY – Police here seized 210 grams of suspected shabu worth P1.43 million in 24 hours. A MAJOR drug suspect yields shabu in a buy-bust operation in Iloilo City. (PNP/ICPO-CDEU) The Iloilo City Police Office-City Drug Enforcement Unit nabbed five suspected drug pushers in buy-bust...
