DoLE issues pay rules for Ninoy Aquino Day
BY LESLIE AQUINO The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) on Thursday advised the employers to take note of the pay rules for the special non-working holiday…
BIR resumes probe of income tax returns
BY JUN RAMIREZ Thousands of business operators nationwide have expressed dismay over the decision of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to resume the investigation of the…
P17-M shabu seized in Benguet in 5 months
BY ZALDY COMANDA LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – The Benguet Provincial Police Office reported the confiscation of close to 380 grams of shabu worth more than P17 million…
PNP lists 14th COVID-19 death
BY AARON RECUENCO Fourteen policemen have already died from COVID-19, with the latest fatality in the Philippine National Police (PNP) recorded on Aug. 12. Police Brig. Gen.…
Sta. Ana Hospital receives Avigan tablets for trials on COVID patients
BY MINKA TIANGCO Sta. Ana Hospital, one of the six district hospitals in Manila, has received a total of 1,300 tablets of the Japanese anti-flu drug Avigan,…
49 village execs charged over SAP mess
BY CHITO CHAVEZ The Department of Interior and Local government (DILG) reported on Thursday that at least 49 barangay officials have been charged before the Office of the…
2 persons in investment scam nabbed
BY JEFFREY DAMICOG The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested two persons for defrauding their victims of almost P3 million in an investment scam. NBI Officer-In-Charge…
24-hour food delivery services allowed in NCR
BY JHON CASINAS Majority of local government units (LGU) in Metro Manila have allowed the 24-hour operations of food establishments for delivery services, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority…
Bato to NBI: Dig deeper in Jolo ‘misencounter’
BY HANNAH L. TORREGOZA Who fired the first shot? Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa has raised this question even as he challenged the National Bureau of Investigation…
CHR seeks justice for slain activist Zara Alvarez
BY CZARINA ONG KI The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is seeking justice for the killing of human rights activist Zara Alvarez as its Region IV’s sub-office…
Parañaque compound under calibrated lockdown
BY JEAN FERNANDO The Parañaque City government placed a compound in Barangay San Isidro under 15-day calibrated and reasonable lockdown which will start on the eve of…
Roque reminds Willie of promised P5-M aid
BY ARGYLL CYRUS B. GEDUCOS Presidential spokesman Harry Roque thanked TV host Willie Revillame for the P5-million assistance to jeepney drivers displaced by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic but…
LGUs still want to ban buses from Metro Manila
BY ALEXANDRIA SAN JUAN While the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is preparing for the possible reopening of provincial bus routes under the general community…
2 men behind the viral giant foams in Batangas river held
BY AARON RECUENCO The mysterious build-up of giant foams in a river in Tuy town of Batangas that went viral on social media is now solved after the…
P136-M shabu seized in Pasig sting
By AARON RECUENCO Anti-narcotics operatives of the Philippine National Police (PNP) seized on Wednesday 20 kilos of suspected shabu worth P136 million in an entrapment operation in…
Food delivery driver is 1st recipient of Gretchen Ho’s benevolence
BY KRISTEL SATUMBAGA A food delivery driver who uses rollerblades to work became the first recipient of Gretchen Ho’s “Donate A Job, Save A Job”…
