News Roundup

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:14:54 +0000

Many sellers were found violating the price freeze order, according to Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez, who visited Farmers Market in Cubao, Quezon City last Thursday together with Agriculture Secretary William for a price inspection. But supermarkets, such as Wellcome Farmers Plaza and Puregold Araneta, both in Cuabao, were in compliance with the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:05:07 +0000

  BY JOSEPH ALMER PEDRAJAS   *   THE Manila Police District is investigating a police officer who was caught in a video throwing expletives and hitting a resident who was allegedly not following quarantine measures with what appeared to be a wooden stick in Quiapo, Manila. MPD director Police Brig. Gen. Rolando Miranda said […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:02:21 +0000

  The Quezon City government said on Tuesday that it has enforced an “extreme enhanced community quarantine’’ in the city’s 11 barangays severely affected by the novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) since 7 p.m. of March 23. Mayor Joy Belmonte said the following barangays under the extreme enhanced community quarantine are barangays Tandang Sora, Kalusugan, Ramon […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:58:42 +0000

    The Department of Justice (DoJ) has started filing charges against Iloilo 1st District Rep. Janette Garin, former health secretary, and her co-respondents over alleged liability in the deaths of eight children who got inoculated with anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. “We started filing charges in various courts,” said Senior Deputy State Prosecutor Richard Anthony Fadullon. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 02:45:02 +0000

  COTABATO CITY – A person under investigation (PUI) died at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center (APMC) in Marawi City on Tuesday as provincial authorities confirmed a total of seven PUIs and 90 persons under monitoring (PUMs) across Lanao del Sur. The fatality was one of four PUIs admitted to the APMC and had a […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:40:52 +0000

By ANTHONY GIRON   CAMP GEN. PANTALEON GARCIA, IMUS, Cavite — The Cavite Police Provincial Office (PPO) assured on Monday the implementation of crime preventive measures after a former soldier went on a shooting rampage in General Trias City that resulted in the death of four persons and himself last Sunday. It was the first […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 04:26:47 +0000

  BACOLOD CITY – Two suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed during an encounter with military troops at Sitio Agpapatao, Barangay Binobohan, Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental on Friday. The military identified the slain rebels as Edgar Bonifacio and Randy Canumay, both residents of the said village. They were allegedly members […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 03:32:15 +0000

By GLAZYL MASCULINO   BACOLOD CITY – A pastor, who was suspected to be a military informant, was killed on Tuesday by four unidentified armed men at Sitio Pinus-an, Barangay Camindangan in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental. Slain was Lonie Lahaolahao, 54, of the said village, police said. Initial investigation showed that Lahaolahao and his wife were on […]