Day: October 14, 2024

LTO suspends 3 more driving schools for fraudulent certificates

Manila: The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Monday suspended three more driving schools in Metro Manila and Cavite for alleged fraudulent issuance of theoretical (TDC) and practical driving course (PDC) certificates.

In a statement, LTO chief Ass…

Series of operations yield P9.6-M shabu in Bacolod

BACOLOD CITY – Drug enforcement teams of Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) seized over PHP9.6 million in shabu over the weekend amid intensified security operations for the opening of the 45th MassKara Festival.

A buy-bust on Sunday night and another…

2 Southern Leyte towns earn rebel-free tag

TACLOBAN CITY – Two more towns in Southern Leyte have been formally declared as completely free from the threats of the New People’s Army (NPA), the Philippine Army said on Monday.

Brig. Gen. Noel Vestuir, commander of the Philippine Army’s 802nd Inf…

Pro-Marcos Filipinos on steady upward trend -OCTA survey

Manila: A new survey conducted by OCTA Research revealed that 38 percent of adult Filipinos now identify as pro-Marcos, showing a steady rise in support for President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and his administration.

This figure, from the third-quarter…

Eastern Visayas logs 1.9% drop in poverty incidence

TACLOBAN CITY – Eastern Visayas posted a 20.3 percent poverty incidence last year, lower by 1.9 percentage points from the 22.2 percent posted in 2021, officials reported on Monday.

This means that 10,264 more people in Eastern Visayas have been lift…