ZAMBOANGA CITY – The City Health Office said 17 individuals sustained fireworks-related injuries during the New Year’s Eve revelry here. ILLEGAL fireworks seized in Zamboanga City. Most of the victims were male from 12 to 26-years-old. Of the initial batch of six cases before the New Year, five...
BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera region recorded 15 fireworks-related injuries as of 6 a.m. on January 1. The Department of Health-Cordillera said the region had 11 new FWRIs on New Year’s Eve but this is 37 percent lower than the same period in 2022 with 24. FIREWORKS light up the sky as Baguio...
CEBU CITY – Dapitan City recently hosted an arnis tournament that gathered over 100 top stick-fighters from Mindanao. OVER 100 arnis fighters from Mindanao participate in the 1st Mayor Seth Frederick P. Jalosjos Handuraw Invitational Arnis Tournament in Dapitan City. (Contributed photo) The...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Mayor John Dalipe and House Majority Leader Zamboanga City Rep. Mannix Dalipe led the first-ever New Year Countdown and Grand Fireworks Display here on Sunday, December 31, within the vicinity of a mall in this city. A GRAND fireworks display ushers in 2024 in Zamboanga...
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – The site development of Candon Airport in a 50-hectare land near the bypass road in Barangay Calaoan here has started after the formal groundbreaking ceremony of the project on November 10. MAYOR Singson (FB) Candon City Mayor Eric Singson, former House Deputy Speaker,...
A nine-year-old Muntinlupa resident lost his fingertip bone after a firecracker exploded on Jan. 1. According to the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO), the boy is a resident of Sitio San Antonio in Barangay Poblacion. Firecrackers confiscated by the Muntinlupa Police (Photo from...
TACLOBAN CITY – A 62-year-old man was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle a pack of suspected shabu for his detained son in Ormoc City on New Year’s Eve. Police identified the suspect as Aurelio Basete. Basete arrived at the Ormoc City Jail Male Dormitory in Barangay Altavista to bring...
K-pop girl group Red Velvet’s Irene, Seulgi and Wendy, and Filipino artists Zack Tabudlo, KZ Tandingan, Adie, and Ely Buendia welcomed the New Year in the Philippines with an epic show at Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig on Dec. 31. Mayor Lani Cayetano at the “NYE at the 5th: New...
BAGUIO CITY – Police here reported a 56.47 percent decrease in crime incidents during the holiday season. The Baguio City Police Office Crime Information Reporting and Analysis System (CIRAS) said cases went down by 48 cases from December 21 to 31 compared to the same period in 2022. Baguio City...
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – A woman collecting debt was gunned down in Barangay III here on New Year’s Eve. Police Lt. Col. Reynante Pitpitan, Vigan police chief, identified the victim as Rhona Osalvo, 36, of Shelterville, Barangay San Julian, this city. Investigation said Osalvo was collecting...
Two people were admitted to the Ospital ng Muntinlupa (OsMun) due to injuries as people defied the ban on the use of firecrackers in the city. Many residents violated two Muntinlupa ordinances prohibiting the use of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices, and open pipes and mufflers on...
A warehouse was destroyed in an eight-hour fire on New Year’s Eve in Muntinlupa. According to the Muntinlupa City Fire Station, the fire hit a warehouse on Don Jesus Boulevard in Alabang Hills, Barangay Cupang at about 10:52 p.m. The fire at a warehouse in Barangay Cupang, Muntinlupa...
