CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO) in Region 7 on Thursday relieved the personnel of the Mandaue City Police Station 1 for violating the “intensified cleanliness policy” (ICP) of Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar. Their relief came 13 days after the station launched a village clean-up drive in its area of responsibility. Brig. Gen. Ronnie Montejo said the policemen were ordered relieved effective Thursday after the inspection of the Regional Internal Affairs Service (RIAS) in Central Visayas. “We organized the inspection team and we tasked RIAS to implement the ICP. During the conduct of the

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Police have launched an in-depth investigation into the Thursday killing of a retired Army officer-turned real estate developer. Col. Gilberto Tuzon, city police director, said investigators are looking into possible angles behind the murder of retired Army Col. Elicardo Cabangal, 70, the owner of the homegrown Dragon De Oro Real Estate Development. He said Cabangal was inside their house at 13 Sebastian St., Paradise Subdivision in Barangay City Heights when he was shot at close range by unidentified suspects around 12:09 p.m. He said the suspects reportedly fled from the scene towards an undetermined direction onboard

LAOAG CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Ilocos Norte looks forward to establishing more Negosyo Centers to strengthen micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Maricor Racela, Senior Trade Industry Development Specialist and Trade Promotions Officer of DTI-Ilocos Norte, said Thursday the municipalities of Sarrat and Pinili will soon have their own Negosyo Centers (NCs) where local entrepreneurs can register their business and avail of other government services without going to the DTI provincial office in Laoag City. To ease the process of starting up and registering businesses, Racela said Negosyo Centers are spreading in all towns

Today marks the 5th anniversary of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack, the deadliest night of terror in the country’s history that saw 22 civilians killed, the majority of them foreigners residing in or visiting the capital’s swanky diplomatic quarter around Gulshan-Baridhara. Commemorations among relatives and those close to the victims will therefore span the globe from Japan at one end to Italy at the other. Indeed, those are the two countries that suffered the most casualties. Five heavily-armed young men who didn’t fit the profile of your typical ‘jihadist’ executed the audacious attack, that clearly drew inspiration from ISIS, the