Three persons drowned in Lian, Nasugbu, and Lemery in Batangas on Good Friday and Black Saturday. The Batangas Police Provincial Office said the victims were a 17-year-old male student, single, resident of FDR, Block 9, Lot 12, Phase 3, GMA, Cavite; Juanito Tiples, 61, resident of Zone 10, Barangay...
LEMERY, Batangas – What was supposed to be a mere stroll along the beach turned tragic as four teenage students, three of them female, and laborer died after they drowned, while their only other companion survived on a sad Black Saturday afternoon, April 8, in this town. The police, who...
BATANGAS – Three died and one was hospitalized in four separate drowning incidents here on Good Friday, April 7. The Batangas Police Provincial Office (BPPO) identified the fatalities as Bobong Rivera, single, and resident of Barangay Palincaro, Tuy; Khailyn, a resident of San Juan, and Lucas,...
LEMERY, Batangas – A teenage male drowned while swimming in a pool on Maundy Thursday in Barangay Nonong Casto here. Police said the victim and his teenage cousin were swimming at Suenia Beach Resort when he suddenly went underwater. After a minute, the unconscious victim was lifted by his...
The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) has released a relaxation order at the Batangas Port after the trips of many passengers going to the provinces for the Holy Week reportedly got cancelled on Holy Wednesday, April 5, due to technical glitch in the ticketing system. In a statement, the MARINA...
The higher than expected collection of the Bureau of Customs further widened in the first-quarter after the government’s second largest tax agency recorded in March its highest monthly collection for the year. In a statement, Customs Commissioner Bienvenido Y. Rubio said Monday, April 3, that the...
CAMP GEN. MIGUEL MALVAR, Batangas City – A 28-year-old man was arrested after he stabbed his uncle on Saturday dawn, April 1, in Rosario town. Batangas police director Col. Pedro Soliba identified the suspect as Rodney Gruta, a resident of Barangay Marilag in Rosario, while the victim was...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) has distributed relief goods to residents of Verde Island, who were affected by the Oriental Mindoro oil spill. In a statement, the OVP-Disaster Operations Center (OVP-DOC), with the help of the Batangas Provincial Government, Batangas Vice Governor’s Office,...
LIPA CITY, Batangas -- A minor was killed while seven others were injured including a police officer when a speeding car hit two tricycles and a motorcycle in Barangay Mabini on Monday evening, March 27, in this city. According to the Lipa City police, the car's driver, a 17-year-old male student...
BATANGAS CITY – Police arrested a suspected gunrunner in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Balagtas here on Sunday, March 26. The suspect was identified as Bryan Montejo, an alleged member of the Rapol Crime Group. Montejo yielded a caliber 9mm, a caliber .22 rifle, three magazines for caliber.22...
PADRE GARCIA, Batangas – Police killed a man who allegedly hacked a resident of Sitio Bauan, Barangay Quilo-quilo, here, on Sunday, March 26. The Padre Garcia Municipal Police Station received a call from Teodoro Fortus claiming that his son Joshua was hacked several times by an unidentified...
BATANGAS – Five suspected thieves who allegedly stole the generator of a telecommunications company were apprehended by police on Tuesday morning, March 22, in Barangay Bugagan East in Agoncillo town in this province. The arrested suspects were identified as Wilfred Labapis,30, single; Robert...
