President Duterte checks landslide victims in Tinaan, Naga City in Cebu

NAGA CITY, CEBU - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Friday, 21 September 2018, checks the condition of the victims of a landslide that ravaged a village in Naga City, Cebu on Thursday (September 20, 2018) as relief operations continue.

Duterte returns NFA to DA; reorganizes NFA Council

MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has returned the National Food Authority (NFA) and two other agencies to the Department of Agriculture (DA) after floating the idea last April.

Lanao del Sur Board Member, 3 others nabbed in Iligan City over P3.4-M illegal drugs

ILIGAN CITY - Joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 10 and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have seized an estimated PhP 3.4 worth of "shabu" (crystal meth) from an incumbent provincial board member of Lanao del Sur on Wednesday, 19 September 2018. 

Curfew for minors reimplemented in Iligan City

ILIGAN CITY (18 Sept 2018) - Mayor Celso Gomera Regencia announced the reimplementation of curfew hours for young people after it was lifted last week so that residents could more freely celebrate the city fiesta.

The curfew hours which was effected after the proclamation of Martial Law brought about by the crisis in Marawi City last year was temporarily suspended in celebration of the month-long 2018 Diyandi Festival and the city fiesta.

The month-long Diyandi Festival is in celebration of the feast of Patron Saint Michael Archangel started September 1 to October 7.




"There is a need to relax the implementation of the curfew hours to give way to the celebration," said Regencia last Monday in a bid to promote the tourism in Iligan City during its weeklong festivities.

The curfew hours was lifted starting September 10 and was supposed to be in effect until October 7.

However, Regencia reimplemented the curfew hours covering citizens aged 18 years old and below from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. effective September 17 following rumbles involving youth groups in different parts of the city.

"We will not wait until lives will be wasted," he said.

Exceptions will cover minors with their parents in tow and students traveling home from school provided they have proper IDs. [Bonita Ermac, Manila Bulletin]

'The Butcher' gets life sentence

MALOLOS, Bulacan - The Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Bulacan on Monday found retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. guilty of kidnapping and serious illegal detention in connection with the disappearance of two University of the Philippines (UP) students in 2006.

Gazmin's approval voids Trillanes' amnesty -- Panelo

Salvador Panelo

MANILA - The amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was invalid from the start since it was signed by former Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and not by former president Benigno Aquino III, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said on Monday.

Former 'hanging judge' to preside over Trillanes amnesty case in SC

A FORMER  'hanging judge' will handle the petition, which Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th filed before the Supreme Court, to stop President Rodrigo Duterte from revoking his amnesty and consequently ordering his arrest.