CIDG gets new chief in latest PNP reshuffle
May 2, 2024
LAOAG CITY: The Schools Division of Laoag City announced Wednesday its intent to hire more teaching and non-teaching personnel for school year 2023-2024. City schools division superintendent Vilma Eda said applicants have a better chance to get hired with the department’s new guidelines on merit selection. The new guidelines are meant to ensure that in all governance levels, the department hires and retains the right people for the right job at the right time by adhering to the principles of merit, fitness, competence, equal opportunity, transparency and accountability, she said. “This is to level up the playing
MANILA: Police arrested a man engaged in the practice of dentistry without a license in Laguna. Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said the suspect, Rodelo Donato, was apprehended at his residence in Barangay San Agustin, Alaminos, Laguna on Monday. The operation stemmed from an informant’s tip that Donato has no certificate of registration or professional identification card. Acting on the information, Lee said CIDG operatives and other police units conducted an entrapment operation and arrested the suspect who was caught in the act while practicing dental technology. Upon arrest, Donato
CLARIN, Misamis Occidental: The Cagayan de Oro City government has turned over PHP11 million worth of new rescue vehicles to seven hinterland villages of the city. Mayor Rolando Uy released the vehicles Wednesday afternoon to barangays Tignapoloan, Tagpangi, Taglimao, Besigan, Pagalungan, Tuburan, and Tumpagon. “I don’t want these barangays to experience what I went through when I was still a barangay captain, which was met with problems (on mobility in times of emergencies),” he said. Uy said when he was chairperson of Barangay Carmen, a resident that needed medical attention died because there were no available rescue
TACLOBAN CITY: The low pressure area (LPA) near Eastern Samar may trigger flooding in major rivers in the Eastern Visayas region, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has warned. In an advisory issued Thursday, PAGASA identified several rivers in six provinces that would likely be affected by the downpour — Sangputan, Palo, Solano, Daguitan, Marabong, Cadacan, Bongquirogon, Salug, Pagbanagaran, Pagsangahan, and Binahaan in Leyte; and Catarman, Bugko, Pambujan, Catubig, Palapag, Mano, and Gamay in Northern Samar. Other rivers include Oras, Dolores, Ulot, Taft, Borongan, Suribao, Llorente, Balangiga, and Sulat in Eastern Samar; Basey, Silaga, Calbiga,
MANILA: The Supreme Court (SC) has announced the suspension of work in all courts nationwide at noon of Dec. 29, with court operations to resume next year, January 3. In Memorandum Order No. 181-2002, the SC, through Acting Chief Justice Marvic Leonen, said the suspension is ”in light of the upcoming consecutive holidays and to allow court personnel, parties and litigants the opportunity to attend to personal engagements and make the appropriate travel arrangements.” The tribunal however said the suspension of afternoon work on Dec. 29 will not apply to court personnel who need to process bails, orders
MANILA: Aside from posting a surplus in its revenues for the year, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized illegal drugs and smuggled goods including agricultural products valued at PHP23.582 billion from Jan. 1 to Dec. 22, 2022. An estimated value of PHP1.226 billion agricultural products were apprehended since January 2022. The BOC also recorded 107 drug bust operations this year, resulting in the seizure of more than PHP11.953 billion worth of illegal drugs. As a result, some 33 individuals were arrested and turned over to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to date. Additional revenues
