Secretary Manuel Mamba and his 13 companions on Monday afternoon escaped unharmed after Cagayan Gov. Alvaro Antonio, armed with an AK-47 rifle, allegedly fired at their convoy in Alcala town in Cagayan province.
Six armed men burned a gasoline tanker along the national highway in Allacapan town on Saturday night, police said.
An island at the tip of Luzon mainland is being considered the next location of the British reality television series, “Survivor,” drawing mixed reactions from officials, civil society groups and residents of this coastal town.
A robbery syndicate operating in Cagayan is believed to have been dismantled after four of its suspected members, who are mother-and-son and father-and-daughter pairs, were arrested following a car chase on the Dugo-San Vicente Road here on Saturday.
Three New People’s Army rebels were killed in an encounter with police forces Tuesday in Cagayan, the military said Wednesday.
For people unfamiliar with it, any mention of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport (CSEZFP) immediately brings to mind a visual comparison with the more familiar Subic Bay Freeport in Zambales.
A group of used-car dealers has warned of a possible disappearance of imported vehicles here in what could be a repeat of the supposed mistake that the government committed in handling the importation controversy at Subic Bay Freeport several years ago.
A fleet of Hummers, Porsches, BMWs, Mercedes Benzes, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and other used luxury cars due to arrive on Saturday at Port Irene here may end up as pieces of junk once the government imposes the ban on imported vehicles, the trade of which has become a mini-industry at the free port.
A day before Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon was scheduled to have a firsthand look at the used-car importation trade at the free port here, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Tuesday visited the coastal town of Lal-lo to test its new runway.
The election officer of Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Sunday bewailed what she called the “unkind treatment” she received at the hands of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and his nephew, Jose Mari Ponce, on the last day for voter registration on Oct. 31.
The leader of an anti-mining group in Cagayan was arrested Thursday for posting an allegedly libelous account about a mining issue on her Facebook page in May last year.
A policeman and a government engineer in Cagayan province were arrested by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) after an entrapment operation.
The Magapit suspension bridge in Lal-lo, Cagayan, was reopened on Thursday after it was closed for two months for repairs, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said.
