First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos (middle) receives her rank insignia from Philippine Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Ronnie Gil Gavan onboard the BRP Gabriela Silang after she joined the PCG Auxiliary (PCGA) on July 16, 2024. (Photo: PCG) By MARTIN A. SADONGDONG First Lady Marie Louise "Liza" Araneta...
Philippine Coast Guard personnel rescue a woman using a basin as deep floods caused by heavy rains due to the southwest monsoon (habagat) hit Zamobanga City on July 14, 2024. (Photo: PCG) By MARTIN A. SADONGDONG Two persons were reported killed as heavy rains brought by the southwest monsoon...
Former Philippine Coast Guard commandant Artemio Abu (second from right) signs a deed of donation with Coast Guard District Southern Tagalog commander Commodore Geronimo Tuvilla (second from left) to formalize the donation of a 500-square-meter lot in Isla Verde, Batangas on July 12, 2024. (Photo:...
Passenger-cargo vessel “Ciara Joie 1” runs aground off Rio Hondo in Zamboanga City on July 12, 2024. All 19 crew members of the vessel were rescued, according to the Philippine Coast Guard. (Photo by PCG) A passenger-cargo vessel ran aground off the coastal waters in Brgy. Rio Hondo in...
Philippine Coast Guard personnel retrieve the wreckage of fishing banca "John Robert" on July 9, 2024 after it was hit by an unidentified vessel in subic, Zambales on July 3. The incident left one fisherman missing. (Photo: PCG) Two Chinese bulk carriers were considered as “vessels of interest”...
BACOLOD CITY – Four suspected smugglers were arrested and several boxes of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)-Southern Negros Occidental in Ilog, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, July 9. A MOTORBANCA loaded with 150 boxes of smuggled cigarettes from...
Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino likened the fate of the missing fisherman in Subic, Zambales to a "hit-and-run". Philippine Coast Guard personnel retrieve the wreckage of fishing banca "John Robert" on July 9, 2024 after it was hit by an unidentified vessel in subic, Zambales on July 3....
Philippine Coast Guard personnel retrieve the wreckage of fishing banca "John Robert" on July 9, 2024 after it was hit by an unidentified vessel in subic, Zambales on July 3. The incident left one fisherman missing. (Photo: PCG) A fisherman went missing after his boat was hit by an unidentified...
Participants run during the “Takbo para sa West Philippine Sea” along Seaside Bvld. in Pasay City on July 7, 2024. The fun run which is oprganized by RUNRIO Inc. along with the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), National Task Force-West Philippine Sea, Philippine Information Agency (PIA), and the...
Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino on Sunday, July 7, rallied Filipinos to unite on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue. “Raising public awareness on the West Philippine Sea is key to rallying Filipinos to take a united stand on this issue,” said Tolentino, who was one of the 7,000...
The Philippine Coast Guard welcomes 128 new volunteers of PCG Auxiliary in Calatagan, Batangas on March 1, 2021. (Photo: PCG) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) will no longer accept Chinese volunteers into its auxiliary force, a spokesperson said on Saturday, July 6. This developed as the Armed...
Nicknamed "The Monster," China Coast Guard ship with bow number "5901" is spotted in Escoda (Sabina) Shoal approximately 75 nautical miles from the coastline of Palawan on July 3, 2024. (Courtesy of Philippine Coast Guard) China Coast Guard (CCG) ship with bow number “5901”, dubbed as “The...
