The newly installed director of the Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) ordered all units in the country’s summer capital to heighten police visibility especially at night.   “When all citizens of Baguio are sleeping, they should be visible, during those unholy hours they should be visible, especially in drinking establishments and areas which are prone to crime,” Col. Francisco Bulwayan said on the sidelines of the turnover rites at the BCPO headquarters on Wednesday.   Bulwayan, who replaced Col. Glenn Lonogan, said the city has already established pre-positioning of logistics in crime-prone areas, points of convergence and residential areas.  

Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan has highlighted the crucial role of sustained targeted subsidies and ensuring that there is an ample supply of food in the domestic market to help Filipinos amid inflationary pressures.       “The government’s priority is to make sure that there is sufficient and affordable food supply for every Filipino family,” Balisacan said in a statement Wednesday.       Balisacan, also the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chief, made the statement following the release of consumer price index (CPI) figures for September 2022, which stood at 6.9 percent —the highest since October 2018.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday said it does not support statements calling the looming postponement of the Dec. 5 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) a threat to democracy.   “If it is a threat to democracy, the framers of the Constitution would not have included that very provision. I don’t think it is a threat to democracy,” poll body spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said in a forum in Manila.   The National Movement for Free Elections and Legal Network for Truthful Elections have expressed opposition against the BSKE postponement, claiming that it is against the principles of

The Supreme Court (SC) has acquitted a peanut butter vendor on drug charges citing irregularities in the case against her.   In a notice published online on Sept. 29, the high court cleared Ken Cola Ali after it noted a lapse in the case when the officer who allegedly had contact with the informant which prompted the entrapment operation against the accused was not presented as a witness.   Ali has been convicted by a Kidapawan court for selling PHP500 worth of shabu to police in plain clothes on April 10, 2017, during a buy-bust operation following information received by

Three towns in Davao de Oro received lab equipment worth PHP 2.9 million from the regional office of the Department of Agriculture (DA-11) to combat the Panama disease or Fusarium wilt and boost quality banana production in the province.   In a statement Wednesday, the provincial government said three Trichoderma village-level biological control (Biocon) laboratory facilities with supplies and materials were turned over to the Fusarium wilt-infected towns of Maragusan, Mabini, and Laak on Sept. 29.   The turnover also included an upgrade of the tissue culture laboratory in Davao de Oro Farm in Barangay Pasian Monkayo town, which is

Senator Robinhood “Robin” Padilla on Wednesday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s trip to Singapore was a good opportunity to attract foreign investors to our country, given that the state-island is considered a major business center in Southeast Asia.   Padilla’s statement came after the President was criticized for the weekend trip.   “Ang bansang Singapore po ay ang sentro ng negosyo sa buong Southeast Asia. Nandiyan po sa bansang Singapore ang foreign investors. Pugad po ito ng mga negosyante (Singapore is a center of business in Southeast Asia. Foreign investors are there. It is a hub for business),” Padilla said