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At least five criminal charges to be filed vs Baloyo, 11 other policemen (Eagle News) – The Department of Justice has found probable cause to file graft and corruption charges against former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde for his role in directing and influencing police officers in the 2013 controversial and highly irregular Mexico, Pampanga drug raid In a 104-page resolution after the DOJ re-investigation, the Panel of prosecutors said that Albayalde […]
(Eagle News)–Charges have been filed against the suspects in the killing of a columnist and his companion in Pampanga. The Presidential Task Force on Media Security said double murder charges have been filed against Armado Velasco, the alleged mastermind in the killing of Remate columnist Jupiter Gonzales and his companion Christopher Tiongson. Also charged before the Pampanga Prosecutors Office were alleged accomplice Edgardo Cabrera and another “John Doe.” Gonzales and Tiongson were killed reportedly after […]
(Eagle News) – Former Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) chief and now Baguio City mayor Benjamin Magalong said that the cops involved in the questionable drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga had seized around 200 kilos of shabu and not just 30 kilos. During the Senate hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 1, Magalong told Senate Blue Ribbon committee chair Senator Richard Gordon, that there was apparent mishandling of evidence in the […]
One remains at large (Eagle News)–The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested eight Koreans for alleged phishing activities and over illegal drugs. In a statement, the NBI said the arrest of Jung Ju Wan, Kim Tea Yang, Oh Young Seong, Song Jong Min, Jin Jun Young, Kim Dae Hyun, Sung Won Kang, Yeong Hak Tak and Young Jo Choi in Angeles, Pampanga was made after the equipment, including computers, phones, among others, they used for […]
(Eagle News) — The bell tower of the 18th century Catholic church in Porac, Pampanga, St. Catherine of Alexandria, suffered major damages after the 6.1 magnitude quake that hit the Philippine island of Luzon on Monday, April 22. Its bell tower was destroyed as can be seen in the photos. Some of the church’s statues were also toppled down by the strong quake. The church is just one of the many heritage Catholic churches […]
(Eagle News) — Search and retrieval teams in Porac, Pampanga rescued the ninth survivor from a collapsed four-storey building which housed a grocery store, Chuzon Supermarket, on Tuesday, April 23, a day after the 6.1 magnitude quake that hit Luzon. The search teams continued to scour the area for signs of life hoping to rescue the more or less 20 persons still trapped in the rubble. So far, five fatalities were recovered from the […]
(Eagle News) – House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo visited the site of the collapsed building in Porac, Pampanga to personally assess the situation. She cut short her stay at the Boao Forum for Asia held on Monday evening, April 22, and decided to travel to Porac, Pampanga to visit her constituencies. The 6.1 magnitude quake has killed six persons in Pampanga — four in Porac town, and two in Lubao. The death toll, however, is expected […]
(Eagle News) — Two survivors trapped in the collapsed four storey building in Porac town in Pampanga were pulled out of the rubble alive by rescue teams that worked through the night Monday, April 22. Rescue, search and retrieval operations are still underway in collapsed building site in Porac town, where a grocery store, Chuzon Supermarket, was housed in its ground floor. Teams are working to get more people trapped in the rubble. […]
(Eagle News) – Operations of the Clark International Airport in Pampanga were suspended after a 6.1 magnitude quake damaged parts of the airport on Monday, April 22, according to the Department of Transportaton. In a statement, Jaime Melo, president of Clark International Airport Corporation, said that the operations in Clark had to be suspended for 24 hours so they could assess the damage to the airport structures after the quake. Broken glass panels and […]
(Eagle News) — These series of photos showed the four-storey building in Porac, Pampanga that housed a grocery store, Chuzon Supermarket, which collapsed after the 6.1 magnitude quake that shook the island of Luzon in the Philipppines on Monday, April 22, 2019. There were three casualties reported so far in the building collapse in Porac town. Two more were reportedly killed in Lubao town. The four-storey building stood beside the Jose Songco Lapid Cultural Sports […]
(Eagle News) — Five were reported killed after a 6.1 magnitude quake hit the Philippines’ main island of Luzon late Monday afternoon, April 22, all from Pampanga, while more people were reported trapped in a collapsed building in the town of Porac. Pampanga Governor Lilia Pineda said that at least two buildings collapsed in the province. Three people were killed with a building collapsed in Porac town in Pampanga, while another two were crushed to […]
(Eagle News) — Six people were killed, while nine others were hurt, when the van they were riding in flipped to its side after a tire blowout along the northbound lane of the North Luzon Expressway around noon Saturday, March 23. The passengers were on board a Hyundai H100 semi-van when one of its tires blew out, along a portion of the NLEX in Apalit, Pampanga. The van was carrying 15 passengers. Five of the […]
