ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – Two Basilan Electric Cooperative (Baselco) personnel were killed in a broad daylight shooting in Isabela City, the capital of Basilan, Tuesday, August 9. Police Lt. Col. Junpikar Sitin, Isabela City police chief, said Baseco linemen Alvin Pangilinan, 53, and Reymond...
RAMON, Isabela – Acting National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Administrator Benny Antiporda visited the Magat Dam here Tuesday, August 2, and declared the structure safe following the magnitude-7 earthquake last month. NIA acting Administrator Benny Antiporda meets officials and technical...
Bishop Leo Dalmao of the Isabela prelature has mourned the passing of former Lamitan Mayor Rosita Furigay, a peace advocate. PHOTO CBCP NEWS FB "The murder of former Lamitan Mayor Rosita Furigay, Victor George Capistrano, her executive assistant, and Jeneven Bandiala, security guard at Ateneo de...
CAMP MELCHOR F. DELA CRUZ, Upi, Gamu, Isabela -- The military has identified six of the eight bodies believed to be members of the New People’s Army which were recovered in Barangay Canadam, Maconacon in this province. The recovered bodies were members of the terrorist group Isabela Provincial...
CITY of Ilagan, Isabela – Ninety-one former communist rebels from this province received P20,000 each as livelihood assistance under the sustainable livelihood program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Region 2 at the Provincial Capitol Amphitheater in Alibagu here...
Isabela Rep. Antonio “Tonypet” Albano tested positive for Covid-19. Albano asked prayers for his speedy recovery. "May I humbly ask for your prayers as I have tested positive for Covid for the very first time. And I have asthma as my comorbidity," Albano said in a Facebook post Tuesday, July...
SAN MANUEL, Isabela – Don’t text or call while driving or else it might cost you your life. A woman busy with her cellphone cheated death after the Isuzu DMAX she was driving fell into a rice field while avoiding a pedestrian here Monday, July 18. The PNP did not identify the driver....
SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – Philippine Drug enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents seized some P81,600 worth of shabu from live-in partners and their visitor during an anti-illegal drug operation on Friday, July 15, in Purok 6, Brgy. Centri East in this city. Photo from PDEA The live-in partners were...
CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – The body of a 28-year-old junk collector with 40 stab wounds and a slashed throat was found on a vacant lot in Barangay Cabaruan here Sunday, July 10, after he was kidnapped Saturday, July 9. The family of the victim, Marco Salgado, of Barangay District 1 here, said he...
PEOPLE gather around a pickup truck that collided with a ten-wheel truck in Cordon, Isabela, Saturday, July 9. CORDON, Isabela – An architect was killed while three others were injured in a collision between a pickup truck and a 10-wheel truck Saturday, July 9, in Barangay Caquilingan here....
THE body of a New People's Army (NPA) rebel executed by his comrades in Maconacon, Isabela over leadership is prepared for burial. MACONACON, Isabela – Five more remains of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels executed due to infighting in their ranks were exhumed by the Army Friday, July 8, in...
The police arrested two men tagged as the No. 1 most wanted persons in Taguig and Pateros on July 6. Robin Maltu, 40, who is the No. 1 most wanted person of the Taguig police for the third quarter of 2022, was arrested in Barangay Bangad in Santa Maria, Isabela. Suspects Robin Maltu (left) and...
