BACOLOD CITY – A senior citizen was killed after she was hit by a Ceres Liner bus in Barangay 3, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, August 22. The victim was identified by her eldest sister as Maria Consuelo Catalan, 62, of Barangay Rizal. Police Lt. Col. Mark Anthony Darroca, Silay...
BACOLOD CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth more than P160,000 from a 42-year-old drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Palampas, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, August 22. The suspect was identified as Jofel Bacalla of Barangay 2. Bacalla was arrested after...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A group of transport cooperatives in this city is set to submit a manifesto to the city government and government agencies here opposing the proposed inclusion of "bao-bao" (tricab) vehicles in Cagayan de Oro’s Local Public Transport Route Plan (LPTRP). A PUBLIC utility...
BACOLOD CITY – A 103-year-old woman from Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental died the night before the turnover of her authenticated birth certificate issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on August 9. EUFRONIA Fernandez (Photo courtesy of PSA-Negros Occidental) Eufronia...
Local government executives from all over the Visayas, private sector sustainability officers, and scientists held a successful workshop-seminar, “Klima,” organized by The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) Foundation and National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) at the...
The Pasig City local government unit (LGU) received on Tuesday, Aug. 22, the bronze award of the Civil Service Commission (CSC)’s Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resources Management (PRIME-HRM). Pasig is only the fourth LGU in the whole country to receive...
The Muntinlupa City government recorded only one active Covid-19 case in one week as the country also registered a decrease in the weekly tally of new cases. Data from the Muntinlupa City Health Office (CHO) showed that from Aug. 15 to 21, one active Covid-19 case was recorded, down from two...
CAVITE – Authorities arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 22, one of the six suspects in a robbery holdup incident in an Imus City restaurant on Aug. 21. The suspect was apprehended in Pasay, Corporal Lisa Peñaflor of Imus City Police Station (CPS) told the Manila Bulletin on Wednesday, Aug. 23. The...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Seventy-nine barangays in this city competed in the Fiesta sa Barrio games, one of the core activities in this year’s Higalaay Festival, at the Misamis Oriental Integrated Sports Complex on Tuesday, August 22. TUG-of-War, one of the native games featured in the Fiesta sa...
Makati City Mayor Abby Binay on Wednesday, Aug. 23, announced that the Department of Education (DepEd) has approved Makati's request to distribute free school supplies to the students of the 14 public schools affected by the ongoing territorial rift between the city and the city of Taguig. ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Most Rev. Julius Sullan Tonel was installed as the seventh archbishop of the Archdiocese of Zamboanga in a ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Zamboanga here. TONEL (center) The ceremony was officiated by his Archbishop of Manila Jose Cardinal...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) inaugurated a fire sub-station in Barangay Mandalagan here to boost fire response. Fire Chief Supt. Jerry Candido, director of BFP-Western Visayas, led the blessing and activation of the sub-station, in the presence of Chief Insp. Rodel Legaspi,...
