The human rights group Karapatan rebuffed a general’s challenge to investigate alleged “extrajudicial killings” against state personnel made by the New People’s Army in Bukidnon.
Author Archives: JIGGER J. JERUSALEM
Environmental group Greenpeace-Philippines has urged legislators to craft a law that would totally ban waste importation for good following the illegal entry of tons of garbage from South Korea, among others.
Street dancing contingents perform during the formal opening of this year’s Kahimuman Regional Trade Fair 2019 at SM Uptown in Cagayan de Oro City on Friday, Aug. 23. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Sen. Christopher Lawrence Go visits the fire victims of barangays Puntod and Lapasan who are currently staying at Corrales Elementary School in Puntod. Go led the distribution of financial aid and relief packs to the survivors late Thursday, Aug. 22. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Illegally manufactured tobacco products and cigarette-making machines estimated to be worth more than a billion pesos were destroyed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in a facility in Barangay Bayabas, this City, Thursday (Aug. 22).
Donning protective suits, top local officials led the anti-dengue campaign in the City by conducting a fogging activity in one of the 10 villages with the highest number of dengue cases.
A Korean-American national was arrested by law enforcers after he was allegedly caught using “shabu” or methamphetamine, an illegal substance, inside his hotel room in Barangay Lumbia on Friday (Aug. 16).
A Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) official has asked residents affected by the fire to ponder first before taking any legal action against the elderly couple who were tagged as responsible for the conflagration.
The warehouse of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company’s subsidiary PLDT-Philcom Corporation in Barangay Carmen, this City, was gutted by fire last Tuesday. The warehouse stored assorted supplies and devices for its telecommunications operations which cost more than hundred million pesos.
Investigators have considered the possibility that the fire that consumed a portion of the remaining 5,177 metric tons of mostly plastic trash from South Korea that are stored within the premises of a plastic-recycling facility inside the Phividec Industrial Estate in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on Monday could be due to spontaneous combustion.
