By Armand Galang
After having two officials tangling over the mayor’s seat three months ago, this city is now without a mayor. Vice Mayor Ester Lazaro said she would not assume the mayoral seat even as Mayor Efren Alvarez has gone on another prolonged absence after the Sandiganbayan issued a warrant for his arrest on graft charges on Feb. 15. This prompted the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to run after him.
Posted: February 27th, 2013 in Headlines,Regions | Read More »
By Anselmo Roque,
Armand Galang
As soon as the clock struck noon on Monday, Gerardo Sator, a former employee of the local government of Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija, knew his soft drinks business in the town would be dead for an indefinite period.
Posted: February 11th, 2013 in Headlines,Regions | Read More »
By Anselmo Roque,
Armand Galang
About 500 people in Pantabangan town, many of them relatives and supporters of employees of the town government, staged a protest rally on Monday to press for payment of the salaries and other benefits of the government workers.
Posted: December 11th, 2012 in Latest News Stories,Regions | Read More »
By Armand Galang
Julius Caesar Cauzo, a broadcaster of the local radio station dwJJ, started his day early on Thursday by visiting a coworker.
Posted: November 9th, 2012 in Headlines,Latest News Stories,Regions,Regions | Read More »
By Armand Galang
GENERAL TINIO, Nueva Ecija—Efren, a father of four from General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, has been an illegal logger since he was 15 years old. He has been poaching timber with a group in the Sierra Madre mountain ranges for the past 24 years. Last week, municipal personnel caught Efren and four other people with [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2012 in Headlines,Photos & Videos,Regions | Read More »
By Armand Galang
Evangeline Pajarillo prepared herself for a trip to Metro Manila early Wednesday with high hopes for a better future for her and her family.
Posted: September 27th, 2012 in Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos,Regions | Read More »
By Anselmo Roque,
Armand Galang
Leoncio Pajarillo, 39, was ferrying his wife, Evangeline, 42, on his motorcycle to the city center here to catch a bus for Metro Manila. She was to attend an orientation for an overseas job. They never made it. They didn’t know what hit them.
Posted: September 27th, 2012 in Editors' Picks,Featured Gallery,Headlines,Nation,Photos & Videos | Read More »
By Armand Galang
The owner of a farm where fugitive Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan reportedly hid in January was found dead in a river in Barangay (village)Labi here on Monday.
Posted: September 26th, 2012 in Latest News Stories,Nation | Read More »
By Armand Galang
President Benigno Aquino III on Friday disclosed that Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s unofficial talks with the Chinese helped ease tensions between the Philippines and China over Panatag Shoal in the West Philippine Sea.
Posted: September 22nd, 2012 in Banner Story,Editors' Picks,Headlines,Nation | Read More »
By Armand Galang
President Benigno Aquino was 13 when he first set foot in this military camp, where his father, the late former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., was detained at the onset of martial law.
Posted: September 21st, 2012 in Latest News Stories,Nation | Read More »
By Anselmo Roque,
Armand Galang
Mayor Romeo Borja Sr. was a no-show at a Monday dialogue requested by civic leaders and residents who gathered at the municipal hall to demand an explanation why power supply in the town was cut off on July 23.
Posted: July 31st, 2012 in Headlines,Regions | Read More »
By Anselmo Roque,
Armand Galang
Gasoline stations here have started to prescribe a daily schedule for pumping fuel. Businessmen who could afford the extra expense have secured generators to keep their businesses going.
Posted: July 27th, 2012 in Headlines,Regions | Read More »
By Anselmo Roque,
Armand Galang
Despite being host to a hydropower dam, Pantabangan town has been suffering from a power blackout for three days now after First Gen Hydro Power Corp. (FGHPC) cut its supply on Monday due to the town government’s failure to pay P80 million in power bills since 2007.
Posted: July 26th, 2012 in Headlines,Regions | Read More »
