Police Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), directed the special investigation task group (SITG) handling the case of a slain radio broadcaster in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro to immediately arrest the remaining at-large gunman, noting that his order is a...
Canada and New Zealand have both expressed their "grave concern" over the killing of yet another Filipino journalist. Their embassies on Wednesday issued a joint statement, where they called for the immediate investigation into the killing of radio broadcaster Cresenciano Bunduquin. Bunduquin was...
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri on Monday, May 29 joined his colleagues in expressing outrage at how people lie or perjure themselves before the Senate and government bodies. The crime of perjury crosses political lines, Zubiri said as Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva referred to...
The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) is still trying to uncover pieces of evidence whether suspended Negros Oriental Congressman Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. could be considered a terrorist. NICA Director General Ricardo de Leon stated this when he appeared before the Senate public...
An aide of former Negros Oriental governor Henry Pryde Teves has accused Siaton Mayor Cezanne Fritz Diaz of harassing him in a confrontation on Wednesday, following the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs’ hearings into the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has warned the perpetrators behind the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo that the government will run after them as they have received "much information" about the incident. In a statement, the President deplored the assasination of Degamo,...
BACOLOD CITY – Three persons who were tagged as behind the killing of the younger brother of Valencia town Mayor Edgar Teves Jr. in Negros Oriental were arrested on Monday, Feb. 6. Valencia police chief Major Roger Quijano said over an interview with Radyo Bandera 97.7 Sweet FM Dumaguete...
All journalists must be allowed to carry out their task of bringing out the truth without undue threats in pursuit of inclusive governance, Senator Grace Poe said today, Nov. 10. Speaking at the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas' (KBPs) 48th Top-Level Conference in Tagaytay City, Poe hailed...
SAN LEONARDO, Nueva Ecija -- The case of a retired college dean who was killed by her grandson is considered solved following the arrest of the suspect and the filing of a murder case in the provincial prosecutor in this province. Police Staff Sergeant Reagan A. Barlis, investigator–on-case, said...
CAMP MARCELO A ADDURU, Tuguegarao City – Police arrested a man who killed his wife during a hot pursuit operation on Tuesday, Aug. 16, in Purok 6, Barangay Gattu, Pamplona, Cagayan. A belated report from the Police Regional Office 2 (PRO2) indicated that a case of parricide has already been...
NORTH COTABATO -- Police authorities have launched a manhunt operation against the two assailants who killed a village chair in Pikit town on Thursday. Police Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, Police Regional Office-12 director, ordered the hot pursuit operation against the suspects in the killing of...
A POLICEMAN secures the living room of a house in Barangay Cabatangan, Talisay City, Negros Occidental where a jobless man was stabbed dead by his cousin early Monday morning, July 4. (Photo courtesy of Talisay City Police Station) BACOLOD CITY – A 52-year-old hog raiser allegedly stabbed his...
