Aquino allies trounced in Quezon
By Delfin Mallari Jr.
Two allies of President Aquino—who belong to the Alcala and Tañada families in Quezon—suffered defeat in the May 13 elections.
Two allies of President Aquino—who belong to the Alcala and Tañada families in Quezon—suffered defeat in the May 13 elections.
A witness in the 2011 murder of broadcaster-environmentalist Dr. Gerardo Ortega was strangled inside the Quezon provincial jail in Lucena City and did not commit suicide as declared by prison officials, results of a second autopsy showed.
A liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined cycle power plant along the coast of Lamon Bay in Atimonan, Quezon, will start construction this year and is expected to enhance local employment and boost revenues for the province.
The group of Victor “Vic” Siman visited a gold miner in this town before all 13 of them were killed in an alleged shootout with government security forces in Atimonan, Quezon province, on Sunday afternoon.
Supt. Hansel Marantan, who led the government security force that engaged a group of alleged criminals in a bloody clash in Atimonan, Quezon, on Sunday had been involved in three widely publicized, if not controversial, gun battles previously.
A senior police official, two other policemen, a soldier and an environmental group officer were among the 13 persons who were killed Sunday in Atimonan, Quezon, in what the Quezon police said was a shootout between law enforcers and suspected members of a crime syndicate operating in the Southern Tagalog region.
At least 13 alleged members of a big criminal group from Bicol were killed in a gun battle with policemen and soldiers on Maharlika Highway in Quezon province on Sunday afternoon, according to Army officers.
Leaders of the Bondoc Peninsula farmers in Quezon province on Monday dared Agrarian Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes to be decisive and hasten the distribution of land to beat the deadline of the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
A female back rider was killed and three others were injured, including the drunk driver of the motorcycle they were riding, after he lost control of the vehicle along the highway in Guinayangan, Quezon on Friday.
“More trees would be cut and smuggled out of the (Sierra Madre) mountains to finance the candidacy of corrupt politicians,” an Agta tribe leader in northern Quezon has warned.
The government’s receipt of P56.5 billion from San Miguel Corp. representing proceeds from the sale of its 24-percent stake in the country’s biggest food conglomerate bought with coconut levy funds is only a partial victory for the country’s coconut farmers as the amount is only part of the list of civil cases on the disposal of the fund, a lawyer for coconut farmers’ groups said Monday.
Lawmen have identified 8 of the 11 New People’s Army rebels slain in a fierce 30-minute gun battle in the remote village of White Cliff, San Narciso, Quezon on Saturday.
Four suspected car thieves were killed in what the authorities said was a shootout with policemen manning a checkpoint on the Maharlika Highway diversion road here early Wednesday.
