The Quezon City police swooped down on a slum community late Thursday night and rounded up close to 200 men, one of whom yielded a high-powered firearm and a grenade, in what officials considered a preemptive strike against potential troublemakers in the May 13 elections.
A 63-year-old woman was gunned down Sunday morning by one of two motorcycle-riding men soon after she and her daughter left a church in Quezon City.
Environmental watchdog Eco Waste Coalition reminded devotees of the Black Nazarene of the basic adage: “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” as the group staged Sunday a preview of an ecological and safe procession ahead of the January 9 feast.
Security will be extra tight Monday morning along the route from Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) to the Sandiganbayan where former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is set to be arraigned together with former officers of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on plunder charges.
The bad man blocked us and he just shot my mother.
The Black Nazarene finally returned to its home in Manila in what its parish priest claimed was “the longest procession ever” in the history of the annual religious festival.
After more than 21 hours, the image of the Black Nazarene was finally brought back inside the Quiapo Church from the Quirino Grandstand before 6 a.m. Tuesday, radio and television reports said.
The crowd seems to get bigger and bolder each year. But as Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle explained: “To understand it, you need to be a devotee. Outsiders do not understand.”
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) attributed the widespread flooding in Metro Manila on Thursday, which caused heavy traffic and left hundreds of people stranded, to the volume of rain spawned by tropical storm “Falcon,” clogged drainage systems and unfinished road repairs and diggings. In an attempt to decongest traffic leading to traffic-heavy C-5 Road [...]
