CAMP BGEN OSCAR M. FLORENDO, La Union -- Police operatives arrested three suspects in separate theft and robbery incidents in Region 1 provinces and Cordillera region in a checkpoint operation in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur early Saturday morning, Jan. 7. Ilocos region director PBGen John C. Chua...
SEAFOOD sold at the Bankerohan Market in Davao City. The Kilusang Mayo Uno has proposed legislation that would set the family living wage at P1,100 to enable workers to have the capacity to purchase basic needs. (Keith Bacongco) DAVAO CITY – A progressive organization said the P16 minimum wage...
DAVAO CITY – The Davao region will see more investments in 2023 following efforts to expedite recovery from the impact of the pandemic that has crippled the local economy in the past two years, the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA)-Davao said. In her report on the Davao region’s...
SILO (center). (PTV Davao) DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Three generals and twenty-two colonels from the Police Regional Office in Davao region (PRO-11) tendered their resignation on Friday, Jan. 6, supporting the Department of Interior and Local Government's (DILG) effort to weed out scalawags. In an...
CAMP Marcelo Adduru, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Police on Friday, Jan. 6, destroyed illegal firecrackers seized in the New Year at the Police Regional Office 2 Grandstand here. Brig. Gen. Percival Antolin Rumbaoa, PRO 2 director, said 2,286 illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnics amounting to...
CAMP FLORENDO, San Fernando City, La Union – Police arrested 10 wanted persons in Region 1 or the Ilocos region on Thursday, Jan. 5. The Ilocos Norte Provincial Office nabbed three – Ivory Ann Balderamos, 36; Jose Calaycay, 44, and Ann Farah Jane Manrique, 32. The La Union Provincial Police...
DAVAO CITY – The National Economic Development Authority said 8,175 workers were retrenched in the Davao region last year due to the pandemic. NEDA-Davao said the number of retrenched workers in 2022 was lower by 31.1 percent compared to the 11,871 in 2021. NEDA-Davao Director Maria Lourdes Lim...
CAMP BGEN OSCAR M. FLORENDO, La Union -- The Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) had sustained a generally peaceful New Year’s revelry in the region with ‘zero’ fatal casualty. However, PBGen John C. Chua, the regional director of the PRO1, said that some cases of minor injuries caused by...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police logged nine firecracker-related injuries during the New Year’s revelry in Region 9 or the Zamboanga Peninsula. ILLEGAL firecrackers seized in Zamboanga City. (Zamboanga City LGU photo) The Police Regional Office-9 said one was reported in Zamboanga del Norte, three in...
ILOILO CITY – Fewer major criminal incidents in Western Visayas region were recorded in 2022. Data from Police Regional Office (PRO-6) showed that a total of 2,783 incidents of the eight focus crimes, namely, murder, homicide, physical injury, rape, robbery, theft, and stealing of vehicles were...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Police on Friday, Dec. 30, destroyed all confiscated illegal firecrackers and pyrotechnics in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) worth a total of P59, 715. Regional Civil Security Unit 2 assistant chief Lt. Col. Romulo Talay said these were picollo, poppop, five star,...
The Department of Health-Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) has recorded at least 10 firecracker-related injuries as of Thursday, Dec. 29. “Boga” (improvised cannon) and “kwitis” are still the leading causes of FCRI in the region. Majority of victims are male. The DOH said nine victims have been...
