MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is eyeing to build makeshift polling precincts if it determines that the schools affected by the powerful earthquake in Mindanao are no longer structurally safe, its chairperson George Erwin Garcia said on Wednesday. Garcia said that the Comelec is currently verifying how many schools were affected by

MANILA, Philippines — The group of Ateneo de Manila University basketball team members had gone about 300 meters away from the resort grounds and “asked to be alone” during the drowning that killed players Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili, police said. During a press briefing in Camp Crame via teleconference on Wednesday, Aurora police chief

MANILA, Philippines — Former police officer Rafael Dumlao has been turned over to the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and will undergo a strict 60-day intake and classification process, BuCor Director General Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr. Stage 1: Quarantine and medical evaluation (Days 1–5) Upon his arrival at the NBP, Dumlao was immediately placed in a

MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is examining the 16 computers belonging to the suspended officers of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Bulacan 1st District Engineering Office (DEO) as part of its flood control mess probe, state prosecutors said on Wednesday. The DPWH officials’ computer was tackled during the

COTABATO CITY — Claiming they would like to live peacefully with their families, 11 members of a local terrorist group surrendered to police and local authorities on Wednesday, turning over their firearms, police said. Col. John Michael Mangahis, Maguindanao del Sur police provincial director, said the surrenderers were presented during a peace and reintegration ceremony

MANILA, Philippines – Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin on Wednesday filed a cyberlibel and perjury complaint against lawyer Levi Baligod and the 18 supposedly former bodyguards of resigned Ako Bicol Rep. Elizaldy Co after she was accused of receiving bags of cash in connection with anomalous flood-control projects. Garin lodged the complaint with the Department of Justice

MANILA, Philippines — No bruises were observed on the bodies of drowned Ateneo basketball players Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili when they received first aid after the incident, according to the Aurora Provincial Police Office. READ: Police say no weights attached to bodies of drowned Ateneo athletes “The MDRRMO [municipal disaster risk reduction and management