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Antique boat trips to Mindoro, Palawan cancelled 

ANTIQUE – Travel from the province of Antique to Mindoro or Palawan and vice versa via small sea crafts are still cancelled due to...

Cop shoots civilian

BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS ILOILO – A police officer allegedly shot a civilian in Barangay Gines Viejo, Passi City, Police Staff Sergeant Kenn James Leyble, 35,...
Seven individuals were hospitalized in a mass gas poisoning during a school activity at the Bacolod City College on Monday afternoon, May 29. RADYO BANDERA BACOLOD

Gas poisoning sends 7 individuals to hospital

BACOLOD City – Five students of Bacolod City College (BCC) and two Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) security personnel were hospitalized due to...
A 32-year-old man attending a birthday party was hacked by the celebrator’s brother on May 28 in Calatrava, Negros Occidental. NOCPPO CALATRAVA MPS/VIA RADYO BANDERA BACOLOD

Man hacked at birthday party

BACOLOD City – A man was hacked while attending a birthday celebration at around 4:45 p.m. on May 28 in Barangay Malatas, Calatrava, Negros...
A salt vendor arranges mounds of salt at a public market in Marikina City on Tuesday, May 30. MARIA TAN/ABS-CBN NEWS PHOTO

House passes salt industry dev’t bill

THE House of Representatives on Monday, May 29, approved on the third and final reading a bill seeking to revitalize the Philippine salt industry. With...
“Any form of monetary or material support to the CPP-NPA, a terrorist organization, is tantamount to ‘terrorist financing’ that is punishable under Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020,” says Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr., Philippine National Police chief.

‘Giving financial aid to NPA criminal offense’

MANILA — Cases will be filed against aspirants of 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) who will be found to have fallen into...
The target population for human papillomavirus vaccination is girls between the ages of nine and 14. The vaccine should be taken before their “sexual debut” or before they become sexually active.

DOH eyes one-jab vaccine against papillomavirus

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) wants to shift to a single dose from its usual two-dose vaccine in its inoculation campaign against...
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. inspects packed rice for sale at a “Kadiwa ng Pangulo Para Sa Manggagawa” outlet in Pasay City, with Department of Trade and Industry Secretary Alfredo Pascual (left). The President has vowed to make rice more affordable. PNA

PNP gearing up for Marcos’ second SONA

MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) announced on Tuesday that it has begun planning security for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s second State...

But next, ‘unpalatable’ tax hike

By ERWIN ‘AMBO’ DELILAN FROM THE “unwanted” P4.4 billion loan now comes the “unpalatable” proposed tax hike in Bacolod City. This tax hike will include...