CANDELARIA, Quezon – A 58-year-old tricycle driver died in a head-on collision with another tricycle on the Candelaria-San Juan Road in Barangay Malabanban Sur, this town, on Wednesday, June 7. The fatality was identified as Romulo Dimalibot, of Barangay Santa Catalina, here. Police said the...
CANDELARIA, Quezon -- A 57-year-old welder died on the spot after his motorcycle was hit by a sports utility vehicle at dawn Sunday, June 4, along Candelaria by-pass road in Barangay Pahinga Norte in this town. The Candelaria police report identified the victim as Zosimo de La Cruz, a resident of...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A police officer investigating a road rage incident was gunned down in Barangay Bukal Sur here on Saturday morning, May 6. The victim was identified as Police Corporal Reniel Marin of the Candelaria Municipal Police Station. Marin had earlier responded to a traffic altercation...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – Two men died and a back rider was injured when their motorcycles collided head-on on the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Masin Sur here before dawn on Easter Sunday. Police identified the victims as Boyet Paderon Marquez and Ardy Advincula Medina. Investigation said Marquez was...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – Police arrested a 30-year-old factory worker after he allegedly killed a farmer he suspected of having an affair with his wife in Purok 3, Barangay Malabanan Sur, this town, on Wednesday night, March 29. Investigation showed that the victim, Allan D. Matutina, was driving his...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – Police seized suspected shabu worth P2.7 million in buy-bust operations here on Wednesday, March 29. Three alleged drug pushers were arrested by the Candelaria Drug Enforcement Unit – Michael Malasma Dakila, Leovernie Montenegro Quitain, and Gerson Dinglasan Silva....
ILOILO CITY – Devotees of the patron saint of Western Visayas, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Our Lady of Candles), were urged to open their hearts to their fellow human beings. DEVOTEES honor the Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria or Our Lady of Candles, the patroness saint of Western Visayas...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – Police arrested two suspected drug pushers and seized shabu worth P312,000 in a buy-bust operation at dawn on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Sitio Sampaloc Lakers, Barangay Pahinga Norte, here. Suspects Romnick Pasahol, 32, alias ‘’Salbakuta,’’ and Joseph Montenegro, 35,...
Devotees will commemorate on Thursday, Feb. 2, the feast day of the highly revered Our Lady of Candles (Nuestra Senora dela Candelaria), the patroness of Western Visayas and Jaro, Iloilo. Our Lady of Candelaria (Facebook) Fiesta masses will be celebrated at the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral in Iloilo...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A platoon leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) Apolonio Mendoza Command, Sub-Regional Military Area 4-A, of the Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee voluntarily surrendered to the police here on Sunday, Jan. 22, after his organization denied his plea for assistance....
CANDELARIA, Quezon – A 34-year-old construction worker was killed in front of his daughter by an unidentified gunman who stormed their house in Barangay Pahinga Norte here Saturday, July 2. Police identified the fatality as Abril Buenavista. Investigation showed that Abril and daughter Khazalhayn...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – Police have launched a hot pursuit operation against a man who shot and killed a barangay councilor and wounded a barangay tanod (watchman) in Sitio Tangke, Barangay Masalukot III here Saturday, June 25. Police Lt. Col. Arnulfo Silencio, Candelaria police chief,...
