Anti-drug operatives of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) have arrested three suspects and confiscated PHP136,000 worth of shabu in two separate buy-busts on Saturday night, reports on Sunday showed. At around 11:15 p.m., Krisha Agsam, 41; and Dennis Selobo, 43, both street-level individuals (SLIs), were collared at their dwelling on Burgos Street in Barangay 19. They sold PHP500 worth of suspected shabu to a poseur buyer during the operation conducted by personnel of the City Drug Enforcement Unit. Both suspects yielded five sachets of shabu weighing about 16 grams with an estimated value of PHP108,800. Agsam and Selobo are
The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) elected Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi as party president during its national assembly in Clark, Pampanga on Saturday, replacing Senator Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao is currently in Los Angeles, California where he is training for his August 22 (August 21, US time) fight against Errol Spence Jr. in Las Vegas. Cusi’s designation came even after Pacquiao and the PDP-Laban National Executive Committee recently expelled him as vice chairperson for allegedly “manipulating” members to support the possible tandem of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte and her father in the 2022 elections as presidential and vice presidential
A leader of the local terrorist group Dawlah Islamiya (DI) was killed while two others were captured during a law enforcement operation in Maguindanao, the military here reported Sunday. Lt. Colonel Benjamin Cadiente, commanding officer of the Army’s 33rd Infantry Battalion (IB), identified a slain terrorist leader during the focused military operation on Saturday only through his alias as “Tong Bomber”, a bomb expert responsible for attacks against military convoys and installations in the province. Members of the DI (Islamic State) in Maguindanao are remnants of the Maute terror group that carried out a siege in Marawi City in 2017.
A 62-year-old widower and member of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team in Sobol village here drowned in a river on Saturday night. In an interview on Sunday, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) information officer Maj. Arturo Melchor Jr. identified the victim as Crisencio Saculles. “The victim, according to an eyewitness, allegedly accidentally fell into the river while riding his motorcycle when he was about to go home,” he said. Saculles lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a narrow metal bridge without railing, and fell into the river with his motorbike, Melchor said. “The victim was brought to the hospital
The first Public Employment Service Office (PESO) inside a mall in this city will start serving job-seekers next month. Legazpi City PESO manager Diosdado Rañeses, in an interview on Sunday, said they are now completing all the needed equipment and facilities for its full-swing operations after it was offered a new location inside an SM mall here free of rent. “We will soon operate and accept clients in our PESO this August after we complete all the needed office equipment and facilities,” he told the Philippine News Agency (PNA). He also thanked the management of SM City Legazpi for giving
The completion of the new passenger terminal building of the Clark International Airport is seen to help the country’s economy bounce back from the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade on Saturday said the new passenger terminal building, once operational, will not only provide a modern air travel experience but will help the economy recover from the crisis and equip Northern and Central Luzon with transportation infrastructure for future development. “Clark International Airport will clearly showcase the best of Northern and Central Luzon from the world-class service this new terminal will
