PINUKPUK, Kalinga – Police arrested three persons who posed as National Bureau of Investigation employees for extorting P10,000 from a funfair owner in Tumauini, Isabela on Thursday, Jan. 19. A report to Brig. Gen. Mafelino Bazar, Police Regional Office-Cordillera director, from Col. Charles...
CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – Two Senior High School students were injured when a fellow student stabbed them in front of the Cauayan City National High School main campus on Monday, Jan. 16. Police said the 13-year-old suspect was waiting for a tricycle outside the school when the two victims age...
ALICIA, Isabela – The driver of an ambulance died in a collision with a truck on the Alicia-San Mateo Road in Barangay Salvacion here on Friday the 13th. Police identified the fatality as Jurezz Mark Perpetua of Bagong Silang, Caloocan City. Investigation said the Nissan Urvan ambulance...
ALBANO CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – Gov. Rodito T. Albano III vowed to provide a monthly 10-kilogram rice subsidy to barangay tanods or watchmen and public school teachers in this province this year. A report from the Isabela provincial information office said Albano made the pledge during the...
CAMP MARCELO A. ADDURU, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Police arrested a 24-year-old robbery-holdup suspect and his two companions after a brief chase in Quezon, Isabela on Wednesday, Jan. 11. The Police Regional Office 2 (Cagayan Valley) identified the suspects as Kalinga residents Rico Palas,...
ANGADANAN, Isabela – Police arrested a 35-year-old elementary teacher in a buy-bust operation in Purok 7, Barangay Centro 1, here on Monday afternoon, Jan. 9. The Police Regional Office 2 (Cagayan Valley) identified the suspect as Virgilio Estrada Jr. Estrada, considered by the police as a...
ISABELA – A former barangay captain was found dead in a cornfield in Brgy. San Antonio, in Sta. Maria town here on Friday, Jan. 6. Police investigators are still validating a report if the death of Facundo Bingayan, 74, has something to do with a land dispute. According to the victim’s...
CAMP Marcelo A. Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – A member of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force arrested a 41-year-old man for indiscriminate firing in Barangay San Luis, Cauayan City, Isabela on New Year’s Day. Police said an intoxicated Danilo Grandeza fired his caliber .45...
Six persons were injured after a car driven by a policeman crashed into a parked tricycle in San Manuel, Naguilian, Isabela, police said on Monday, Jan. 2. Major Juniel Perez, chief of the Naguilian police station, said in a radio interview that the car was driven by Corporal Frederick de Guzman,...
The Department of Health (DOH)-Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has recorded two cases of fireworks-related injuries before Christmas Day. Victims were boys aged seven and 11 from Isabela and Cagayan. They sustained eye injuries and were sent home after being treated. The DOH reminded people to refrain...
Cauayan City, Isabela -- In support of environmental protection, employees of SM City Cauayan joined the biggest tree-planting activity of the provincial government of Isabela, the One Million Bamboos in One Day Project. SM showed its support to environmental protection by donating 10,000 bamboo...
A total of 2,236 informal and vulnerable workers in the province of Isabela are the recent beneficiary of the emergency employment program under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported on Sunday, Dec....
