BATANGAS CITY – A 50-year-old nail technician was apprehended after yielding P340,000 worth of shabu to a police poseur-buyer during a buy-bust operation on Wednesday, May 24, in this city. POLICE conduct an inventory of the confiscated shabu weighing 50 grams from drug suspect Jennifer Lopez...
BATANGAS CITY – Two drug pushers, one of them a high-value target, were arrested after selling P88,000 worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Balagtas in this city at dawn on Wednesday, May 17. In his report to Calabarzon police director Police Brig. Gen. Carlito Gaces, Batangas...
BATANGAS CITY – Public schools under the Department of Education Division of City Schools here have switched to blended learning over the extreme heat. Dr. Hermogenes Panganiban, schools division superintendent, said 107 out of 108 schools have resorted to modified classes starting on Monday,...
BATANGAS CITY – Police arrested a suspected drug pusher and seized shabu worth P120,000 during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bolbok here before dawn on Friday, March 3. Batangas police director Col. Pedro Soliba said the suspect was a street-level individual and pinpointed by the Barangay...
BATANGAS CITY – Police arrested a 38-year-old welder and seized P238,000 shabu in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bolbok here on Thursday, Feb. 16. Batangas police director Col. Pedro Soliba said that suspect ‘’Rey’’ was apprehended after he sold 35 grams of suspected shabu to police...
BATANGAS CITY – A 48-year-old driver ran amuck and killed two barangay tanods or watchmen in Barangay Bilogo here on Sunday night, Dec. 11. Police identified the victims as Ruben Torino, 52, and Robinson Torino, 50. The victims tried to pacify the suspect, Reinaldo Barangas of Sitio...
The victims were then ran over by a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck with license plates DBF-2368 driven by Richard Perol, 33, a resident of Tanauan City, this province, from the opposite direction. They were taken to hospitals here and Tanauan City where they were declared dead on arrival by doctors....
BATANGAS CITY – A smartphone thief was gunned down after he resisted arrest and attacked responding police officers on Friday, Dec. 2, in Barangay Santa Clara here. Police identified the suspect as Geronimo Rivera, 47, and a resident of Purok 6, Barangay Santa Clara. Investigation showed that the...
A roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) passenger vessel collided with a motorbanca in Batangas City on Sunday afternoon, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported. (Screenshot via Coast Guard Station Batangas) MV Stella Del Mar, which is being operated by Starlite Shipping, accidentally rammed into an...
Police arrested an incumbent barangay captain in Batangas City for a case of frustrated murder four years ago. Nabbed was Edmar Rieta, barangay captain of San Agapito in Isla Verde. He was arrested at around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5, when the local police served an arrest warrant against him...
And other discoveries on my Batangas food trip When we did our Foodprints show in Batangas, there was your usual bulalo, lomi from Lipa, and a few others I had come across before. If you know where to go, Batangas is also a food trip destination. You just have to Google the most popular lomi house...
Relief assistance was given to 227 families affected by the fire that razed Sitio Bagjaoan, Barangay Wawa in Batangas City, the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) said. (File Photo / Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor) “Ang patuloy na paghahatid ng relief assistance sa mga...
