Government anti-narcotics operatives arrested a suspected drug pusher described by the Philippine Drug Enforement Agency (PDEA) as a high value target in a buy-bust in Baybay City in Leyte. Initial reports of the PDEA in Region 8 disclosed that John Harris Omega was nabbed at around 3:40 p.m. in...
Nearly P12 million worth of shabu and marijuana seized in a series of operations in Davao Region were destroyed in a show of commitment to end illegal drugs problems in the country. PDEA Regional Office XI Director Aileen Lovitos explained that the destruction of the confiscated illegal drugs on...
FACE MASK (Unsplash) The Department of Health (DOH) said that Metro Manila and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) are now under the moderate-risk classification for Covid-19 transmission. DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that all areas in the Philippines are still...
DAVAO CITY (PNA) – The Indigenous Peoples (IP) themselves decided to put an end to tribal schools linked to communist rebels, not former Mayor now Vice President Sara Z. Duterte, a former New People’s Army (NPA) leader said Monday, August 1. Arian Jane Ramos, former secretary of Guerrilla Front...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a congressional delegation to the Asia-Pacific region, her office confirmed on Sunday, with stops in Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. The statement made no mention of whether the six-member delegation...
TECHNICIANS wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) suits stand behind a biohazard sign inside a molecular laboratory facility set up to test for the monkeypox disease during its inauguration at the King Institute in Chennai, India Thursday, July 28. (AFP) SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union (PNA) –...
DAGUPAN CITY -- One person was reported dead and 39 were injured in Ilocos region after the magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Northern Luzon on Wednesday morning, July 27, according to authorities. Photo from PNP The Ilocos Sur Police Provincial Office said the lone casualty was from Sitio Baudan,...
Over 2,000 personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), including medical doctors, were dispatched to the earthquake-hit Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to provide the necessary assistance to the region’s distressed areas. BFP chief Director Louie Puracan said at least 25 fire trucks...
TUPAD workers clean the street in front of the Vigan Cathedral in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur Thursday, July 28. (DOLE photo) SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Workers under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Worker (TUPAD) program were deployed for earthquake clearing and cleanup...
PEOPLE in Abra spend the night in makeshift shelters out of fear from aftershocks following the earthquake Wednesday, July 27. (Photo courtesy of PIA-Abra) BAGUIO CITY – A total of 7,691 families or 36,972 individuals were affected by the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27, in six...
ONE of the old houses damaged by the earthquake in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur. (Vigan City Cultural Affairs and Tourism Office) CEBU CITY – Lapu-Lapu City and Cebu City will send aid to the quake-hit Ilocos region. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said they will check their calamity fund and will conduct...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) in Eastern Visayas (Region 8) celebrated Wednesday, July 27, the eighth birth anniversary of the six 100-millionth symbolic babies in the region in terms of population count. PopCom-8 Director Elnora Pulma said this year's...
