The Quezon City Police District has launched a manhunt for a Filipino-Chinese “businessman” who reportedly swindled an appliance company of P2.9 million worth of air-conditioning units, the city police chief said on Thursday.
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology will not allow 339 high-risk detainees to vote in the upcoming elections in May for funding and security reasons, its director Rosendo Dial said Thursday.
(UPDATE 2) A fire which broke out in a squatters’ area in Tondo, Manila and destroyed three classrooms in an adjacent school was put out by responding firemen before noon Thursday, authorities said.
Retired General Horacio Lactao, the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, passed away Wednesday night, Marilyn Barua-Yap, the Secretary General of the chamber said.
(UPDATE) The Philippine National Police on Wednesday filed criminal and administrative charges against a Pasay City prosecutor for “malfeasance and grave abuse of discretion” in dismissing the case against an Albay mayor over violations of the election gun ban.
Chief State Prosecutor Claro Arellano ordered the prosecutor's office of Pasay City on Wednesday to explain why it released the Albay municipal mayor who was recently caught with a fake gun ban exemption.
