DAVAO CITY – The Philippine Psychiatric Association has noted a shortage of board-certified psychiatrists in Mindanao amid the growing number of patients needing help from mental health professionals. Dr. Paulo Woodruff Gonzales, director for Mindanao of PPA, said during the Kapehan sa Dabaw on...
Brig. Gen. Bernard Yang took over the position as the new chief of the Southern Police District (SPD) on Sept. 30. Major Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., regional director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), witnessed the turnover ceremony from outgoing SPD chief Brig. Gen....
SAN ANDRES, Quezon – A construction worker was allegedly stabbed to death by his co-worker in Sitio Sigaras, Barangay Camflora, here, before dawn on Sunday, September 29. Police identified the victim as Robin Capistrano of Barangay Ibabang lyam, Lucena City, Quezon. Investigation...
A Grade 12 student who died after falling from the seventh floor of the Tenement housing building in Taguig was buried on Sept. 30. However, his family is still seeking answers on how he died, believing that someone did it to him and that he did not take his own life. Melmar...
ILOILO CITY – Iloilo Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. has picked young Mayor Nathalie Ann Debuque of Anilao town as his running-mate in the May 2025 elections. Defensor, who is seeking a third and final term as governor, inducted Debuque into the ruling Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) where...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The suspect in the murder of a barangay chairman here was arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Cawit, this city, on Friday, September 29. Police Col. Kimberly Molitas, Zamboanga City police chief, identified the suspect as Khyser Daris, alias “Boy.” Daris...
Tunnel workers push equipment up a rail track to a machine boring a 2.5-mile bypass tunnel for the Delaware Aqueduct in Marlboro, N.Y., May 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) A stretch of aqueduct that supplies about half of New York City's water is being shut down through the winter...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A policeman was injured in a grenade explosion in Isabela City in Basilan on Sunday night, September 29, a day before the declaration of the city as Abu Sayyaf Group-free. The injured was identified as Police Patrolman Aldimar Salahuddin of the Regional Mobile Force...
The Southern Police District (SPD) apprehended 72 fugitives in a series of operations in just one day on Sept. 27. Operatives captured the wanted persons during SPD’s 34th Warrant Day, resulting in the arrest of six Top Most Wanted Persons, 35 most wanted persons and 31 other wanted...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two escapees from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency detention facility here last May were arrested after they were wounded in a shootout with authorities during a law enforcement operation in Pandami, Sulu on Saturday, September 28. SUSPECTED shabu valued at...
ILOILO CITY – Department of Public Works and Highways-6 (Western Visayas) chief Sanny Boy Oropel said that the sinking flyover connecting this city to Pavia town, Iloilo will fully reopen on Christmas Day as accelerated repairs are ongoing. PROTESTERS flock to the sinking Ungka Flyover that...
The Philippines rebuffed assertions that “major power rivalry” is at play in the South China Sea disputes because these diminish the rights of claimant-countries “to secure their own future.” Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo delivers the Philippine statement at the 79th...
