“I have instructed the Bacolod City Police and the Western Visayas Police Regional Office to focus on the case of the murder of [Police SSG] Joseph Nepomuceno for the immediate arrest of the culprits,” Eleazar said.

A Sangguniang Kabataan chairman, who is facing rape charges, was arrested in this province recently.

A man who shot and wounded his three neighbors died in a vehicular accident as he was fleeing from the crime scene in Barangay Quezon Hill in this city on Sunday night.

Residents and local officials yesterday commemorated the 171st birth anniversary of Marcelo H. del Pilar, the “Father of Philippine Journalism.”

A rookie policeman was arrested for reportedly cursing and threatening health workers when he was not given priority at the triage area in Valenzuela on Sunday.

At least 250 distressed overseas Filipino workers are coming home from Kuwait today, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said yesterday.

Six months since the government started the vaccination program, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said yesterday inmates should be included in the priority list because they are also entitled to vaccines.

Nineteen residents of Eastern Samar, who decided to return to the province by foot after they were evicted by their landlords in Malabon, were rescued in Laguna on Saturday.

Five cases each of the highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID have been recorded in Ilocos Sur and Zamboanga City.

The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology needs about P14.2 billion and the help of local government units to build additional jails and address congestion, which was recently flagged by the Commission on Audit.