GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A political officer of the New People’s Army has surrendered and was presented to Mayor Lorelie Pacquiao here on Thursday, June 15. Col. Andre Santos, 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade commander, identified the surrenderer as “Akai,” also a media liaison officer of the...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A police intelligence agent was shot dead in Barangay North here on Wednesday night, May 17. Police Col. Joemar Alexis Yap, city police director, identified the victim as Police Senior Master Sgt. Peterselier Licanto, assigned to the Sarangani Provincial Police Office....
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Local health authorities have allayed fears of a possible outbreak of dengue amid the rising cases of the dreaded disease here. City health Officer Lalaine Calonzo stressed that there was no basis for the declaration of an outbreak despite the 501 percent increase of dengue...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police are eyeing love triangle as possible motive in the killing of a police intelligence agent while he was dining inside a restaurant in Barangay Calumpang here on April 20. Lawmen have arrested the suspected mastermind and gunman in the killing of Police Corporal Razul...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police operatives arrested on Saturday, April 22, a former member of the New People’s Army who is believed to be responsible for the killing of a police intelligence operative here. Police Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg, Police Regional Office-12 director, said the suspect,...
KORONADAL CITY (PNA) – Two gunmen riding a motorbike shot dead a businesswoman and wounded her husband in an ambush in Barangay Fatima here before dawn on Tuesday, March 14. In a report, Col. Jomar Alexis Yap, General Santos City police director, identified the victim as Amelia Tajala of...
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) arrested on Sunday night, Jan. 30, three ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) in a raid in General Santos City. Nabbed were Ruben Abenir Saluta, identified as the secretary of the...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY –- Police authorities have remained clueless on the cause of the death of a grade 10 student whose decomposing body was found on Jan. 18 at a vacant lot in Barangay San Isidro, this city. Colonel Joemar Alexis Yap, city police director, said probers have yet to determine...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A six-year-old girl was killed in a fire that razed their house in Barangay Lagao here early Wednesday morning, Nov. 16. Senior Fire Officer 1 (SFO1) Perfecto Roda of the Bureau Fire Protection here said the victim, Casey Pantenople, was sleeping alone when the fire...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) deployed its "Bakuna" bus in General Santos City on Saturday, Nov. 12 to bring the Covid-19 vaccine closer to people. Philippine Red Cross The organization stated that as of writing, it has already fully vaccinated 76,876 individuals and inoculated boosters shots to...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Local fishermen rescued two Indonesian fishermen drifting off Pujada Bay in Davao Oriental for more than two weeks. AN Indonesian fisherman has his vital signs taken after he was rescued with a colleague off Davao Oriental. Commander Antolin Cayabo, head of the Coast...
THIS ten-wheel wing van truck was one of three vehicles involved in a smashup in General Santos City Thursday, August 4. (General Santos City police traffic unit FB) GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Ten persons died in a three-vehicle pile-up in General Santos City Thursday, August 4. Killed were Lalaine...
