A man facing charges of robbery with rape and double attempted homicide was killed Monday night in a shooting at a busy area in Antipolo City in which six others were wounded, one of them critically, police said.
Fernando Garcia of Marikina City thought he got a bargain when he recently bought a second-hand refrigerator. But instead of cooling things down, the Japan-made refrigerator apparently started a fire that cost Garcia his entire house on Russet Street, SSS Village in Barangay Concepcion II early Saturday.
Six people were injured on the ground after they were hit by debris from the upper floor of a hotel in the Ortigas Business District in Pasig City Wednesday night, according to authorities.
Incumbent officials seeking reelection in the cities of Taguig, Las Piñas, Marikina, Malabon and Pasay claimed victory although it was a different story for those in Parañaque, Antipolo City and Cainta, both in Rizal province.
Based on the results of the canvassing of votes in several areas in Metro Manila, familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt. For an incumbent politician or their kin, it can even be an advantage.
At least five people were hurt in an early-morning scuffle between supporters of two political rivals in Caloocan City on Saturday, after barangay officials barred the local chapter of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) from preparing a stage for its miting de avance.
An attempt to reconcile the warring camps of political rivals Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano and Rica Tiñga who are both running for mayor failed after the latter snubbed the event, citing what it called the organizer’s bias for the incumbent.
The Rizal provincial government has confirmed that the nine men who were arrested for violating the election gun ban in Antipolo City on Sunday night were provincial jail personnel although it has not offered an explanation for why they were carrying firearms and chairs bearing the name of Rizal Gov. Casimiro Ynares III inside a government vehicle.
Antipolo, a popular destination in Rizal for religious pilgrimages to a shrine of the Virgin Mary, is now on top of the provincial police’s list of election “‘hot spots.”
Firefighters continued to battle the fire in a neighborhood in Navotas City Saturday afternoon, nearly three hours after it broke out, the authorities said.
Long lines marked the job fair organized by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Public Employment and Services Office (Peso) on Wednesday at SM Megamall on Edsa in Mandaluyong City.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) approved in January a P16-million budget for the setup of permanent precinct count optical scan (PCOS) centers across the country in view of the May 13 elections, but taxpayers have yet to see any of these centers with just a few days to go before the balloting, according to a nongovernment organization based in San Juan City.
Authorities are looking at the possibility that Cainta town in Rizal province is being used as a “transient point” by a major drug syndicate which operates in eastern Metro Manila following the discovery of what a police official said was a “repackaging center” in an exclusive subdivision and the arrest of a suspected big-time drug courier on Monday night.
