The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence meted out by a Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) against a Chinese drug trafficker who tried to sneak in more than 31 kilograms of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in 1991. In a decision dated October 19, the high tribunal’s First Division [...]
Thousands of Filipinos trooped to public and private cemeteries Monday morning to visit the tombs of their departed loved ones, according to reports on Radyo Inquirer. Security was tight, with police, military reservists, traffic enforcers and medical teams at the frontlines, backed up by volunteer nongovernment organizations and trimedia groups. At the Manila North Cemetery, [...]
Busy as a bee would be an apt way to describe vendors at the Dangwa Flower Market in Manila on the eve of All Saints’ Day. And indeed, the market has been humming with activity like a beehive since Saturday morning. But with the growing demand for flowers, a price markup was unavoidable, Noel Ibardaloza, [...]
To many, the city’s most famous products are still the best in the world. With barely a month left before it officially ends, manufacturers participating in Marikina City’s shoe caravan have reportedly cashed in on more than P5 million in sales. Mayor Del de Guzman said the figure represents the money made in the first [...]
Companies engaged in the same business can represent the interest of all stakeholders in court. This was the argument raised by the Outdoor Advertisers Association of the Philippines (OAAP) in response to a petition filed by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) before the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 132. Earlier, the MMDA questioned whether [...]
In a way, Cristina Caldit considers herself lucky because she recently underwent a successful kidney transplant. “My parents and five other siblings had a heart-to-heart discussion about the operation. My sister, who is married but has no children, agreed to donate one of her kidneys to Cristina,” Caldit’s brother Cesar told the Inquirer. After the [...]
Of the total 480,820 registered deaths nationwide in 2009, 67,031, or 13.94 percent, were from the National Capital Regions, the highest among the country’s regions.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
ILOILO City, Philippines—Three unidentified gunmen waylaid and shot dead two siblings and wounded their father in San Rafael town in Iloilo Monday noon. Superintendent Gil Lebin, Iloilo police director, identified the fatalities as Rolly Napacia, 24, and his brother Rey, 17. Both suffered bullet wounds in the head. Their father, Rolando, was wounded in the [...]
After decades of living precariously close to esteros, rivers and the bay in populous Metro Manila, more than 100,000 urban poor families will benefit from the government’s program to provide permanent city housing for them
Two men believed to be involved in the killing of Ramgen Jose Bautista, a son of former Senator Ramon Revilla Sr., were picked up by the Parañaque Police on Monday.
Zambales Representative Mitos Magsaysay warned the government, on Monday, against causing demoralization among the police with its decision to allot P31 million for the housing and livelihood of families of rebel returnees from the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPMP-RPA-ABB).
Communist rebels stormed a provincial jail in Oras town in Eastern Samar town on Monday, seizing several firearms.
The suspect in the murder of the police chief of Bayambang town in Pangasinan and his wife surrendered to Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza and police officials on Sunday afternoon, more than eight hours after the crime.
