ROSARIO, Batangas – A 37-year-old hog raiser was shot and wounded by an unidentified gunman while seated in his owner-type jeep parked on the road shoulder in Barangay Putingkahoy on Friday afternoon, April 14, here. Police identified the victim as Barangay Putingkahoy resident “Ramelito.”...
BATANGAS – A high-value individual and an 18-year-old female yielded P746,580 worth of shabu when authorities arrested them during separate buy-bust operations in Barangay Cuta in Batangas City in this province. In his report to Police Brig. General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., director of the...
BATANGAS CITY – Police arrested in this city a 52-year-old man wanted for frustrated murder, child abuse, and illegal drugs on Tuesday afternoon, April 11. Batangas police director Police Col. Pedro Soliba identified the suspect as Calixto Morante. Morante was apprehended by the Batangas City...
The Bureau of Customs, the government’s largest tax agency, has intensified its anti-smuggling campaign in the first quarter of the year resulting in the filing of 65 criminal complaints with the Department of Justice (DOJ). In a statement, Customs Commissioner Bienvenido Y. Rubio said Wednesday,...
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,...
