Category: JUST IN

May 13, 2019

Elderlies wait for their turn to cast their vote at the Elpidio Quirino Elementary School.   Photo by Primo Agatep/ABN

May 5, 2019

Baguio City – Acting Governor of Mountain Province, Bonifacio Lacwasan Jr. and Natonin Municipality Mayor Mateo Chiyawan, are accused of graft and corruption charges before the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). In Complaints filed before the DILG in January and recently endorsed by the Office of the President to the DILG, Lacwasan and […]

May 2, 2019

Re-electionist Senator Nancy Binay visits Candon City, Ilocos Sur, Tuesday, April 30. After paying a courtesy call to Mayor Ericson Singson, she touched base with locals at the public market. Binay vowed to continue pushing for the welfare of OFWs if re-elected, especially with regard to the creation of a separate department for the sector.

May 1, 2019

Hindi lubos na akalain ng pamahalaan local ng lungsod ng Baguio na habang nagaganap ang kanilang flag raising ceremony noong lunes  ay siya naman ang ginawang panloloob ng mga dipa nakikilalang mga kawatan. Ayon sa awtoridad nadiskubre nalamang ang panloloob pagakatapos ng flag raising ceremony ng silay nagsibalik sa kani-kanilang opisina matapos bumungad sa kanila […]

May 1, 2019

BANGUED, Abra (May 1, 2019) – Authorities will hunt down Tayum, Abra mayoralty bet Jose Marie Brillantes as soon as the court issues an arrest warrant after assault rifles and three high powered pistols including over a hundred bullets were seized from his campaign vehicle late Friday afternoon. Abra police spokesperson Chief Inspector Grace Marron, […]

April 29, 2019

CA acquits foreigner jailed for 12 years for qualified trafficking of minors charge BAGUIO CITY – The Court of Appeals has set free a foreigner found guilty by a Baguio court of committing qualified trafficking in persons on a minor after almost 12 years in detention. In a 24-page decision issued on March 14, 2019, […]

April 28, 2019

BANGUED, Abra (April 28, 2019) – Another barangay chairman was ambushed while heading home Saturday noon in Bangued, Abra’s capital town. Barangay Angad chairman Ronnie Bringas, who accordingly sustained two non-fatal wounds,  was reportedly aboard a motorcycle when the gunman sprung from nowhere fired at him and fled carting away the village chief’s motorcycle. Bringas is […]

April 28, 2019

BANGUED Abra (April 27, 2019) – Authorities seized late Friday afternoon assault rifles and three high powered pistols including over a hundred bullets from a campaign vehicle of an Abra town mayoralty bet late Friday afternoon. On orders of Regional Trial Court branch 22 acting Executive Judge Gina Juan Chan in Narvacan, Ilocos Sur, policemen […]

April 27, 2019

BAGUIO CITY (April 25, 2019) – The tragic road mishap met by local political campaigners group on Tuesday evening here has climbed to 6. Josephine Mayocyoc Ag-a, 59 and John Rey Abaigar Passi, 6, died from very serious injuries Wednesday at the hospital, authorities said hiking up the death toll from four immediately after the […]

April 12, 2019

Engineer Lomino Kaniteng (inset-left), member of the Board and president of the Benguet Federation of Small-Scale Miners, Inc. (BFSSM),clarifies a section on the guideline in the processing and awarding of TSSMP in  Benguet Province. Faye Apil (inset-r), regional director of Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-Cordillera). Small-scale miners (main picture), representing various associations listen intently during […]