BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Health is eyeing the construction of a mental health hospital in Negros Occidental. This was revealed by Dr. Mary Ann Maestral, DOH Undersecretary for Visayas, in a phone interview on Wednesday, Oct. 16, a day after a transition team of the DOH-Negros Island...
ILOILO CITY – People here and neighboring towns are affected by a water shortage that started on Monday, Oct. 14, and ends on Saturday, Oct. 19. Customers of Metro Pacific Iloilo Water in this city as well as the municipalities of Leganes, Pavia, and Santa Barbara have been relying on rations or...
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Continuing its commitment to community engagement and family fun, MR.DIY, in partnership with brand ambassadors Team Kramer, rolled out the third leg of the MERON DIYan! caravan here recently. TEAM Kramer warmly welcomes participants to the Pampanga leg of the...
Authorities raided and closed an Internet Gaming Licensee (formerly known as Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator) in Biñan City, Laguna on Tuesday night. The Business Permit and Licensing Office of Biñan City, along with the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. and the Presidential...
BACOLOD CITY – A 23-year-old man was killed and four others, including two minors, were injured in a rumble with a group of teenagers in Barangay Guimbala-on, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, October 13. Police identified the fatality as Jake Sombria of Barangay Guimbala-on. Injured were...
ILOILO CITY – The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) said that a gang from outside this city was behind a grocery store robbery here in August. LEGADA (ICPO FB) ICPO chief Police Col. Kim Legada said on Wednesday, October 16, that the Termite Group was the perpetrator of the August 27 robbery of...
The top-performing cities, municipalities and provinces in the Philippines were recently recognized in a ceremony by the Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF). The top 10 local government units (LGUs) were ranked by the BLGF for the fiscal years 2022 and 2023 based on local source...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (Facebook, Malacañang photo) Senatorial aspirant, ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro criticized on Wednesday, Oct. 16 the Duterte family over...
The police arrested a 30-year-old man in a buy-bust operation conducted in Barangay Fort Bonifacio, Taguig on Oct. 15. Operatives from the Taguig Police Drug Enforcement Unit nabbed the suspect identified as alias Bore. The buy-bust operation by the Taguig Police on Oct. 15 (Photos from...
CEBU CITY – A four-year-old boy died after a metal railing fell on him at Pasil fish port in Barangay Suba here at past 4 p.m. on Monday, October 14. A video circulating on social media showed the victim leaning on the railing while another child climbed the metal barrier. As the other child...
BACOLOD CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Western Visayas Regional Special Enforcement Team (RSET) arrested a suspected drug pusher after he fell off a roof during a search warrant operation in Purok Boulevard, Barangay 14 here on Monday, October 14. Armed with a search...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – One-hundred twenty poor pupils from the Bitano Elementary School here received new pairs of shoes from SM City Legazpi on Tuesday, October 15. Gloria Abadesa, principal of Bitano Elementary School, said that beneficiaries were chosen from among those who need shoes the most....
