11 March 2010
CANDABA, Pampanga – Mayor Jerry Pelayo has berated reports that there are El Nino-affected municipalities in the province’s 4th district as he claimed that half of the towns here are coastal areas and farmlands are consistently being irrigated by the Pampanga Delta Development Project (PDDP). Pelayo said the municipalities of [...]
11 March 2010
VIGAN CITY – At least 96 individuals were already arrested by the police as a result of the ongoing implementation of the Commission on Elections gun ban in the entire Ilocos Region. Ilocos Region police director Chief Supt. Constante D. Azares Jr. said as of March 10, 2010, Pangasinan accounted for the most number of arrested [...]
10 March 2010
BAGUIO CITY – The City Environment and Parks Management Office (CEPMO) of the city government confirmed Tuesday that the water of the Burnham Park lagoon has receded to a precariously low level over the past five days due to the prolonged drought or the El Niño phenomenon. CEPMO chief Cordelia Lacsamana said “for the period of [...]
10 March 2010
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Six of the 11 Partisan Armed Groups (PAGs), formerly called private armies, in the Ilocos Region are from Pangasinan. This was disclosed by Superintendent Romeo Caramat, chief of the intelligence branch of the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office, who said most of the six PAGs in Pangasinan are identified with municipal mayors. The six, he [...]
09 March 2010
DAGUPAN CITY— Twenty four candidates for different positions in Dagupan City signed a peace covenant at the Saint John Metropolitan Cathedral here Monday morning, guaranteeing the conduct of honest, orderly and peaceful May 10 elections. Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Constante Azares Jr. and Police Provincial Director Percival Barba witnessed the signing after a mass celebrated [...]
09 March 2010
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – The vice-gubernatorial candidate in Zambales province was gunned down by two unidentified armed men in Barangay Mabanglit, Cabangan town in Zambales. In a report to Chief Superintendent Arturo Cacdac, newly-installed Central Luzon police director by Sr. Supt. Rafael Santiago, officer-in-charge of Zambales Police, the victim [...]
08 March 2010
PUGO, La Union -The death toll in a vehicular accident in Barangay Palina here on Saturday afternoon rose to 12 persons, 11 of them were women. Police had difficulty identifying the fatalities and the 36 injured passengers as no identification papers were retrieved from them. Sta. Rosa City, Laguna -bound PJM Love bus (RHE-316), with 48 passengers [...]
08 March 2010
BAGUIO CITY- Peace advocates from northern Luzon are conscious of their own conflict issues to tackle, but they also recognize the need to engage in the peace process in troubled southern Philippines where every Filipino has a stake for a stable Mindanao. Sr. Celerina Zaballa, SSpS of Kappia Network, Inc., one of the 317 participants who [...]
07 March 2010
CAMP GEN. ALEJO SANTOS, Bulacan – Nine civilian organizations will augment the Bulacan Police Provincial Office in rendering services and assistance this summer vacation and in ensuring the conduct of an honest, peaceful and orderly elections. Bulacan acting police director Sr. Supt. Edgardo Tinio said a memorandum of agreement (MOA) will be signed on Monday between [...]
07 March 2010
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – Two successive earthquakes hit the Batanes Group of Islands Friday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs said the first quake, with 5.0 magnitude, occurred at 9:43 a.m. with its epicenter located at 54 kilometers east of Batanes with a depth of 28 kilometers. The tremor was [...]
06 March 2010
CLARK FREEPORT ZONE, Pampanga – Business groups have issued a warning against a well-organized syndicate which have victimized at least three business firms in the province of some P18 million in what is known as “boodle-boodle” operation in the country. The operation of the syndicate has been disclosed to the regional office of the National Bureau [...]
06 March 2010
BAGUIO CITY – Baguio firemen and water delivery personnel has put off at around 11 a.m. a grass fire in barangay Mines View here and prevented it from spreading to nearby forested area with mostly Benguet pines. Lawrence Calma, one of the members of the fire brigade in the area, said only the 200-square meter area [...]
05 March 2010
NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur -Joint elements of the Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion and the 53rd Intelligence Company recovered a high–powered firearm and several subversive documents last Wednesday after raiding a suspected lair of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Barangay Lucbuban, Salcedotown. Colonel Eduardo L. Collado, head of the Joint Civil Military Operation Task Force of the [...]
05 March 2010
LAOAG CITY -Another earthquake rocked the northern part of the country Thursday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The quake, felt at 4.9 magnitude, hit the Batanes Group of Islands Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m., according to Phivolcs Director Renato Solidum. The epicenter of the tremor was located at 48 kilometers southeast of [...]
04 March 2010
MARILAO, Bulacan – Eyesores, illegal, environment hazards and waste of money. Police and provincial election officials on Wednesday started tearing down oversized campaign posters placed in areas not allowed under the Omnibus Election Code during their simultaneous operations in the province’s 21 towns and three cities. Bulacan acting police director Sr. Supt. Edgardo Tinio, together with Supt. [...]
04 March 2010
CALASIAO, Pangasinan— The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has warned that they now have the mechanism, technology and system to easily ferret out tax cheats and evaders from among the citizens of the country. This was disclosed by BIR Commissioner Joel Tan, in a talk to media men in the course of his visit to the [...]
01 March 2010
LAOAG CITY – No damage to property was incurred in both Ilocos and the Cagayan provinces as a result of the rise of water level spawned by tsunami after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile on Saturday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) confirmed that the water level in Ilocos and the Cagayan provinces [...]
01 March 2010
SAN FERNANDO CITY -An official of the Provincial Veterinary Office of La Union flatly denied the report that 3,200 chicken died recently from poultry farms in Balaoan and Santol, La Union as a result of intense heat caused by the prolonged dry season. On the contrary, these chicken died from insecticide sprayed by farmers to their [...]
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