Brunei News Gazette

Category: General

Cop, 3 civilians hurt as gunmen clash in Lanao Sur town center

Heavily armed men traded gunshots in the middle of the densely populated town center of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday night, leaving a cop and three civilians injured. Capt. Jerome Baliuag, deputy chief of the Malabang municipal police station, s…

Gov’t sets PHP2.4B for National Greening Program in 2023

The need to address the impact of climate change made the current administration allot about PHP2.39 billion for the National Greening Program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) this year. In a statement on Wednesday, Depart…

Coal mining firm remits P16B in royalties to gov’t

Semirara Mining and Power Corp. (SMPC) chairman Isidro Consunji said the listed company’s remittance to the government as royalties in 2022 surged by 151 percent to nearly PHP16 billion. During SMPC’s virtual annual stockholders’ meeting Tuesday, Cons…

Tolentino vows to find ways to curtail agri smuggling

Senator Francis Tolentino on Tuesday said the government is serious in fighting smuggling as he vows to find ways to strengthen the judicial system that will prosecute smugglers in the country. At the joint hearing of the Senate Committee on Justice a…

DTI: Price freeze in Occidental Mindoro still in effect

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has reiterated that the price freeze covering most of the province will remain in effect until June 18, even while the power situation here improves. In an interview on Tuesday, a representative from the DTI’…

PAGASA issues El Niño alert

The weather bureau issued an El Niño alert on Tuesday, saying the weather phenomenon might emerge between June and July at 80 percent probability and might persist until the first quarter of 2024. El Niño increases the likelihood of below-normal rainf…

Positivity rate not good basis to determine real Covid situation

The positivity rate or the number of people testing positive for coronavirus is not a good basis in determining the real picture of the country’s Covid-19 situation. In a media briefing on Tuesday, Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge Maria Ro…

BOC logs P74-M collection surplus in April

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has recorded a PHP74 million surplus in its revenue collection for April. In a statement on Tuesday, the BOC said last month’s PHP68.274 billion collection surpassed its target collection of PHP68.199 billion. The amount is…