Day: September 13, 2024

The Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) will have custody of the four aides of Kingdom of Jesus Christ founder Apollo Quiboloy. RTC Branch 159 Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa ordered the detention of Cresente Canada at the Pasig City Jail, while Jackielyn Roy, Ingrid Canada and Sylvia Cemañes were ordered detained at the female dormitory. Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said the order following Quiboloy and his co-accused’s arraignment for qualified human trafficking at the Pasig court on Friday morning. They all pleaded not guilty. Quiboloy will remain detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame, Quezon

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday approved the request to repair a bridge at the Santa Ana village in Guimba, Nueva Ecija. During the launch of the Agri-Puhunan at Pantawid Program in Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Marcos ordered Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Conrado Estrella III to lead the reconstruction of the Santa Ana Bridge in Guimba town. ‘Pagpasok pa lamang namin ay may narinig na kaming request na may kailangan daw na tulay doon sa Sta. Ana (As soon as we entered, we heard a request that a bridge is needed there in Sta. Ana). Okay, approved,’ Marcos

ZAMBOANGA: Authorities arrested an alleged illegal recruiter and rescued five potential human trafficking victims bound for Laos, police said Friday. Lt. Col. Mario Baquiran Jr., Women and Children Protection Center-Mindanao Field Unit (WCPC-MFU) chief, identified the suspect as Regie Dando of Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Dando was arrested around 2:30 p.m. Thursday in an operation by police, military personnel, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) at a pension house on Macrohon Drive, Barangay Canelar. The WCPC-MFU withheld the identities of the five rescued victims. Investigators showed that the victims were scheduled to travel by ferry to Tawi-Tawi, with

Authorities arrested a police officer and three others and seized PHP13.6 million worth of shabu in an anti-drug operation in Jolo, Sulu on Thursday night. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM) director Gil Cesario Castro identified the suspects as Staff Sgt. Moh Radja Ismula, 49, of the Sulu Police Provincial Offce and civilians Andam M. Alidjam, 65; Midarmi Alidjam, 44; and Rahsi Jallaw, 54, all residents of Jolo town. “During the 6 p.m. buy-bust operation in Barangay San Raymundo, PDEA agents recovered two large sachets of suspected shabu weighing 2,000 grams,” Castro said in a

The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday reported the condemnation of hundreds of African swine fever (ASF)-infected hogs that were intercepted in various checkpoints in the National Capital Region (NCR). ‘Mga 400 na iyong ibinaon naming may sakit at para kaming nagpapatintero nitong mga biyaherong bumibili ng may sakit (We have buried around 400 infected hogs, and we have been like playing block and catch with transporters trying to buy infected hogs),’ DA Assistant Secretary for Swine and Poultry Constante Palabrica said in an interview. He said stringent biosecurity or border control measures are just one of the DA’s key