A 40-year-old laborer was stabbed to death at Purok 4, Barangay Libacao in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental around 9:10 p.m. on Sunday, July 11. Roberto Cagayan, a resident of the village’s Sitio Balisong, sustained a stab wound on his left chest. He was brought to the Gov. Valeriano M. Gatuslao Memorial Hospital in the city but …
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Ilongga cagers Pescador, De La Torre headed to Manila
By Adrian Stewart Co Dingle National High School standouts Ayesha Marie Pescador and Maxene de la Torre are headed to Manila after being recruited by University of Santo Tomas (UST) and Enderun College, respectively. Dingle NHS head coach Prandy John Wong told Watchmen Daily Journal that Pescador and De La Torre were recruited by UST …
Kaya-Iloilo ends AFC Champions League with Viettel FC loss
By Adrian Stewart Co Kaya Futbol Club-Iloilo capped off the 2021 AFC Champions League group stage with a close 1-0 defeat to Viettel FC of Vietnam on Sunday night at the Leo Stadium in Pathum Thani, Thailand. It was a heartbreaker of defeat for the Iloilo City-based football club as they ended their maiden AFC …
Money remittance center loses P1.5-M to robbers
Robbers carted away P1.5 million worth of cash from a money remittance center located at Osmeña Street, Barangay Poblacion Centro in Iloilo province’s Calinog town on Saturday, July 10. Calinog police chief Captain Dadjie Delima said Western Union cashier Gladys Almirante, a resident of Barangay Mangil in Janiuay town, reported to the police two hours …
Strange defenses
In a televised address to the nation last May 31, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he cannot allow the release of all the records relative to the nationwide war on drugs that he began upon assumption to office in 2016. He said this after the Department of Justice itself commenced an investigation into the “nanlaban” …
P58K ‘shabu’ seized in Bacolod
Two drug suspects yielded around P58,000 worth of suspected shabu in a drug buy-bust operation in Bacolod City’s Barangay Mansilingan on July 11. Police identified the arrested as Romela Seballos and Angelo Albarado, both residents of the said place. Officers of the Police Station 5 confiscated 18 plastic sachets of suspected shabu and marked money. …
Iloilo City may retain MECQ status
Iloilo City could retain its quarantine status or be elevated to a stricter category following its reclassification by the Department of Health (DOH) as high-risk area for coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19. Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said the city’s COVID-19 cases are still going up per report of the City Health Office as of July …
W. Visayas cops warned vs extramarital affairs
The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) said police officers should be morally upright models of the people. Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Guillermo Eleazar recently said police officers should stay loyal to their spouses, stressing that having extramarital affairs is a violation of the police’s code of ethical standards. He won’t hesitate to impose …
Order more than ever
Let’s remember that everything comes from God and belongs to him. He is the one who sets the law and order in all his creation. We need to refer ourselves to him if we are to go along with what is proper in life, if we want to know what is true and false, what …
Human resources are priceless
The title came from a quote of Dhanin Chearavanont, the senior chairman of conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group or CP for short. CP is one of the largest animal feed and livestock producers in the world and Thailand’s largest family enterprise dominating the agro-industrial, food, telecom, retail, automotive, and finance industries with annual sales turnover of …