Category: General

BUTUAN CITY – Police have apprehended one of the most wanted New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the Caraga Region, an official said Thursday. Brig. Gen. Alan Nazarro, director of the Police Regional Office-Caraga (PRO-13), identified the rebel as “Rudy Amara,” 31, the vice commanding officer of the weakened NPA Guerrilla Front 30. The arrest took place on Tuesday in Carmen, Surigao del Sur. ‘Amara faces six counts of murder, five counts of frustrated murder, three counts of attempted murder, and a charge of slight illegal detention,’ Nazarro said. Amara is listed as the region’s second top communist priority target

LEGAZPI CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO) 5 (Bicol) arrested 110 individuals involved in illegal drug transactions during operations conducted in the region’s six provinces in September. In a report on Wednesday, PRO-5 spokesperson, Lt. Col. Malu Calubaquib, said a total of 115 drug operations were conducted, including buy-busts and service of warrants of arrest and search warrants. “Among the 110 arrested drug personalities, 17 were included as high-value individuals and 93 were street-level individuals,” she said. Calubaquib said the arrest of drug personalities resulted in the seizure of illegal drugs with an estimated street value of PHPP3.69 million,

MALASIQUI: Mayor of Sual town in Pangasinan province Liseldo Calugay, who made headlines for his alleged link to dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo, on Thursday filed his certificate of candidacy for a third term in office. Calugay and his running mates first visited the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Rosary of Manaoag in Manaoag town, Pangasinan and another church in Sual before proceeding to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in their locality. He was greeted by supporters who were also wearing red shirts like the rest of their group. ‘I was not expecting this many people supporting

ISLAMABAD, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is on a three-day state visit to Pakistan, was today awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by the country’s National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). NUST is Pakistan’s multi-campus public research university with its main campus located in Islamabad and other campuses throughout the country, providing tertiary education to more than 10,000 undergraduates and post-graduate students. Arriving in Islamabad last night, Anwar took time off from his busy schedule and visited the university to deliver an address titled ‘Echoes of Iqbal: Charting a Future of Renewal and Progress’ to NUST students

PUTRAJAYA, Implementation of the new student orientation week at institutions of higher learning (IPT) need not be discontinued, instead, the content of the programme should be adjusted to meet its original objectives, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir. He said the implementation of the programme is still relevant because it aims to expose students to the new world of campus life and being away from their families. “This orientation week should be a programme to help students to adapt to the new life in university, college and so on for a long period, maybe four years, some