CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City- Major General Gaudencio S. Pangilinan had a no-holds barred interaction with forty-five members of the national and local media on Thursday, following a simple lunch at the Officers’ Clubhouse, Cordillera building here.

By Francis C. Hidalgo Jr

ILAGAN, Isabela – Fears of an outbreak of AH1N1 in Santiago City as a result of several students getting sick of symptoms similar to the dreaded diseased have forced the city government to find ways to prevent its possible spread.

By Zaff Solmerin

MARINE Col. Ariel Querubin yesterday confirmed that then presidential candidate Gloria Macapapagal-Arroyo and her military allies had used the Philippine Marines in the controversial 2004 election fraud.

by A Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan Thursday said the city will restudy the offer of the Benguet Electric Cooperative Inc. (BENECO) to manage the city’s unmetered streetlights.

by Francis C. Hidalgo Jr.

TUGUEGARAO City: President Benigno Aquino 3rd has ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to make idle lands available to agro-forestry, reforestation or bio-fuel ventures, making them more productive.

by larry madarang & emely fama

CAMP DANGWA, Benguet--A notorious drug pusher was nabbed with eight sachets of shabu and ten live bullets for caliber .22, during an anti-drug buy-bust operation at about six early in the evening last July 16, close to the Universal Grains Center at Purok 3, Bulanao Norte, Tabuk, Kalinga.

by A Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – Baguio City should be one of the first beneficiaries of a software tool on the “Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System (REDAS)” developed by experts from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) under the Department of Science and Technology.

By Zaff Solmerin

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said it will no longer implement warrantless arrest on mere suspicion that a person was a member of the
New People’s Army (NPA), an abrupt change of policy in internal security operations (ISO) in line with President Benigno Aquino III’s command guidance for respect of human rights and other related international human rights laws.

By Francis C.Hidalgo Jr

SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela – A grade 6 girl from Kalinga province died after her 34-year-old mother forgot she had put her in a fertilizer sack as disciplinary punishment and fell asleep last week.

By Francis C. Hidalgo Jr

ILAGAN, ISABELA – Members of the traditionally Maoist New People’s Army burned down several logging equipment worth millions of pesos in an internal Isabela town earlier this week, according to belated Army reports.

By Zaff Solmerin

BEMEDALLED Marine Col. Ariel Querubin walked out to freedom on Wednesday after more than four years of incarceration in connection with the February 26, 2006 Marines standoff at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City that was allegedly aimed to topple the administration of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines cites significant gains of Internal Security Campaign Plan Bantay-Laya.

IN ORDER to ease traffic congestion along the central business district, two jeepney operators and drivers association is now seeking the help of Baguio City Mayor Mauricio Domogan.

CAMP BADO DANGWA, La Trinidad—Task Force Abra arrests two persons in an anti-illegal firearms drive over the week.

By Zaff Solmerin

WITH the recommendation to lease out some of its prime properties in Metro Manila, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now looking forward to a Pentagon-like Camp Aguinaldo if the plan to transfer the leaderships of the its three major service commands will push through.