The Metro Bataan Development Authority (MBDA) has installed at least 52 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in 22 strategic locations along the Bataan highway as part of the security preparations for the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) meeting in Bagac next week. In a report, MBDA general manager Carlos Pizarro Jr.…

A village guard allegedly shot a 17-year-old janitor dead in a subdivision in Iloilo City Monday night. The guard, identified as John Noel Calaor, however, maintained that the shooting incident was an accident. In a statement, Calaor narrated that he was putting down his handgun when it suddenly went off,…

A top ranking CPP-NPA leader was arrested Monday evening in Bacoor, Cavite by combined elements of the Philippine Army and the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG). Adelberto Silva alias “Oca/Rigor,” was collared by authorities by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Regional Trial Court…

Officials of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized some P1.5 million worth of “shabu” or methamphetamine hydrochloride at a warehouse in Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Tuesday. The illegal drugs, which weigh about 197 grams, were placed in three separate parcels bound for United Kingdom, Italy, and Saudi Arabia. Customs…

The Sandiganbayan has sentenced a retired government prosecutor to a total of 10 years imprisonment for child abuse and obstruction of justice. Julius Padios, a former assistant provincial prosecutor of Negros Occidental, was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt for abusing his former client, a high school student who filed a…

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) postponed the retirement of 15-year-old school bus services to ensure that there would be enough vehicles to transport students this school year. The LTFRB on Friday issued Memorandum Circular No. 2015-014, an exemption to the board’s earlier memo issued on October 2013…

The Philippine Army soldier who held hostage about 30 passengers of a Manila-bound Peñafrancia Tour bus along Maharlika Highway in Del Gallego, Camarines Sur, past noon Friday has surrendered. Corporal Rene Prajele, 36, of the 31st Infantry Battalion based in Sorsogon, yielded to joint Army and police operatives at around…

A woman was hurt when one of two grenades lobbed in front of the Navotas City Jail exploded Thursday morning, reports said. Navotas City Mayor John Ray Tiangco said an unidentified man hurled the two grenades in the area behind the Navotas police station around 4 a.m., damaging the signage…