BUTUAN CITY - The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) on Thursday, June 29, announced the start of the nationwide 2023 Rafael M. Salas Kaunlarang Pantao Award (RMS-KPA) Search for Most Outstanding Barangay Population Volunteers and Workers. CPD-Caraga Director Alexander A. Makinano said...
DUMAGUETE CITY (PNA) – Police are probing the death of an event host in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental at sundown on Wednesday, June 28, just shortly after the second day of the public hearings on the deferment of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) in the province ended. An...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – A 44-year-old barangay councilor was gunned down in Barangay Cabay, Tiaong, Quezon on Wednesday afternoon, June 28. The Police Regional Office 4-A identified the victim as Ricky Galangga, councilor of Barangay Cabay. Investigation said the victim was in front of the...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday, June 23, welcomed the Supreme Court's decision declaring the postponement of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) elections in December, 2022 as unconstitutional. Senate...
Albay First District Representative Edcel C. Lagman on Wednesday, June 28 welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision declaring unconstitutional Republic Act No. 11935, which again postponed the barangay and SK elections (BSKE). ...
Senator Imelda “Imee” Marcos on Wednesday, June 28 said she respects the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) which declared unconstitutional the law that postponed the holding of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) from their initial schedule of December 5, 2022, to the last...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested a barangay captain in San Enrique town, Iloilo province in a buy-bust operation on Monday, June 26. The Police Regional Office-6 identified the suspect as Elvie Jirao Paez, 47, of Barangat Palje. Paez was arrested after he sold a sachet of shabu worth to a police...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A 47-year-old barangay tanod (watchman) was shot dead while on his way home in Barangay Pahinga Norte here on Monday, June 26. Police identified the victim as Randy Bastida Tapero. Investigation said Tapero was driving his motorcycle when two men appeared and shot him several...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 ordered all mobile force commanders, provincial and city directors, and municipal chiefs of police in the Caraga region on Thursday, June 22, to step up their campaign against loose firearms ahead of the 2023 Barangay and SK...
CEBU CITY – Serve the people sincerely. Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma made this call to all candidates who will run in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in October. The prelate also called on the public to come out and exercise their right to suffrage. Palma said voters should be...
CEBU CITY – A three-day public hearing will be conducted to determine if this year’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in Negros Oriental will push through or not. LIONEL Marco Castillano, officer-in-charge of the Commission on Elections-Central Visayas (Comelec-7), briefs the...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – A barangay kagawad who is allegedly a member of a big criminal group operating in Bulacan was arrested for illegal possession of firearms on Thursday, June 15. The suspect, identified as Edgardo Cruz, 50, barangay kagawad of Barangay Umpucan in...
