Stricter checkpoints will be set up across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following the death of Dawlah Islamiya leader Salahuddin Hassan in this province last week. Brig. Gen. Eden T. Ugale, BARMM police director, said Monday all police units in the region have been placed on heightened alert for possible retaliatory attacks from followers of the slain DI leader. “We vow to remain relentless against the terrorist groups to sustain the peace and development that we have attained in the BARMM,” Ugale said in a statement. Ugale said they believe that Hassan still has active followers hiding
Policemen have arrested here a former illegal drug trade offender who was caught anew for shabu possession following an inspection at a checkpoint Sunday afternoon. Esmael Guiamel Kamsa, 32, of Barangay Nituan, Parang, Maguindanao, did not resist when cops from the municipal police office, led by Maj. Dan Junson Espinoza, arrested him. Police officers manning the Duran detachment in Barangay Sarmiento became suspicious of Kamsa when he became visibly uneasy. Recovered from him was a sachet of shabu of still unspecified amount, drug paraphernalia, and mobile phone. “Police informed Kamsa of his constitutional rights (Miranda doctrine) in Iranun dialect. Police
Brig. General Matthew Baccay assumed on Monday as the new director of the Police Regional Office 3 (Central Luzon), replacing Brig. General Valeriano de Leon. The change of command ceremony was held at the PRO-3 Grandstand, Camp Olivas here, with Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, as the presiding officer. Baccay, who belongs to Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class ’92 Tanglaw-Diwa, was the district director of the Eastern Police District prior to his new assignment. Baccay, who was previously assigned at PRO-3 as the chief of the Comptrollership Division and chief of Regional Intelligence Division, was welcomed with
The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday directed all units to enhance visibility and patrol activities to prevent a spike in street crimes during the holiday season. “I am directing all police units nationwide to sustain enhanced visibility and anti-crime patrols in areas where street criminals are known to frequently strike,” said PNP chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, in a statement. This came after two suspects were nabbed in Manila on Sunday for allegedly snatching a bag of a woman who was walking along Magsaysay Boulevard and Lacson Avenue in Barangay 420. The victim, who happens to be a Sangguniang Kabataan
Oxford English Dictionary on Monday announced “vax” was word of the year. “Vax is our 2021 Word of the Year. When our lexicographers began digging into our English language corpus data, it quickly became apparent that vax was a particularly striking term,” it said, referring to the abbreviation of vaccination. According to the statement, vax was a relatively rare word in the corpus till this year, but by September it was over 72 times more used than the same time last year. As the Covid-19 crisis escalated across the world in 2020, no single word was referred to as word
Ghosts are real. I say this because I saw the ghost of my late grandfather myself when I was a 2-year-old toddler. His ghost popped out from a huge wooden post inside our house in Tagbilaran City in Bohol one evening during the nine-day prayer for the eternal repose of his soul. His sudden appearance in the midst of the novena sent the whole flock of people attending the prayer gathering, including my grandmother, Magdalena Clarin Bautista, my parents (Pedro & Milagros), and relatives scampering in different directions, leaving me alone behind. As a little boy, I was unaware of
