Compliance with rice price ceiling still low

Dexter Cabalza, Inquirer Bureaus, Jordeene B. Lagare 09/06/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Retail prices of rice in Metro Manila started to decline on Tuesday, the first day the price ceiling on the Filipino staple food took effect, according to a monitoring conducted by the Department of…

QCPD gets new chief after road rage fiasco

Dexter Cabalza, Marlon Ramos 09/02/2023

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. has accepted the resignation of Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III and appointed his successor, following the blunder of the police in handling the…

CBCP clarifies its rep’s role in anti-Red task force

Dexter Cabalza, Kathleen de Villa - @inquirerdotnet 09/02/2023

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Friday clarified its association with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), after its head announced earlier that the bishops now had a representative…

Ex-cop’s road rage costs him Supreme Court job; QCPD head quits

Abby Boiser, Dexter Cabalza, Julie M. Aurelio 08/31/2023

MANILA, Philippines — After drawing flak for organizing an “inappropriate” press briefing for road rage suspect Wilfredo Gonzales, Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III submitted on Wednesday his courtesy resignation to Philippine National…

5 of 18 resigned PNP officials tagged in 2014 drug ‘matrix’

Dexter Cabalza, Julie Aurelio 07/31/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Five of the 18 high-ranking officials whose courtesy resignations were accepted by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for their involvement in illegal drugs were among the 30 police officers identified in a drug matrix prepared…

Manila Central Post Office Building fire ‘purely accidental’

Dexter Cabalza 06/07/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) has ruled out arson as the cause of the fire that gutted the historic Manila Central Post Office Building, saying the May 21 blaze was “purely accidental.” In a statement…

DOJ chief names ex-usec in Degamo case ‘bribe try’

Dexter Cabalza, Jacob Lazaro - @inquirerdotnet 06/03/2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Friday said a former ranking official of the agency had dangled a hefty sum to the arrested suspects in the assassination of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo, allegedly…

Privacy body gets bomb threat, manhunt for perpetrator ongoing

Alden Monzon, Dexter Cabalza 05/13/2023

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Friday received an online bomb threat, about an hour after it ended a meeting with GCash representatives over the temporary disappearance of money from the accounts of the e-wallet firm’s users. The bomb…

American admits killing partner, stuffing her in drum in Cavite

Dexter Cabalza 05/11/2023

Cavite police arrested on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, an American expatriate after the body of his Filipina partner was found rotting inside a water drum in the Bacoor City house where they both lived. The police said…

PBA players tapped as new faces of drug war

Dexter Cabalza 04/19/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Who else can turn basketball-crazed Filipinos away from the lure of illegal drugs? For the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), there could be no better ambassadors for the drug campaign than…

Another mastermind named in Degamo slay

Dexter Cabalza, Tina G. Santos 04/04/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Authorities are now at the tail-end of the quest for justice in the murder of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo following the arrest of another mastermind tagged as the “missing vital link” and one…

P1.1-million reward up for arrest of Cavite student’s killer

Delfin Mallari, Dexter Cabalza 04/01/2023

Government officials in Cavite province have offered a P1.1-million reward for anyone who could provide information that would lead to the arrest of the killer of a 22-year-old female student in Dasmariñas City on March 28. Police…

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