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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 7) — A New Bilibid Prison (NBP) inmate has been sentenced to another two to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to being an accessory in the murder of radio broadcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines — Another defendant in the killing of radio broadcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa last year has been convicted and sentenced to a maximum of eight years in prison.
HOUSEHOLD beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) would continue to get their rice subsidy in the form of a P600 monthly cash assistance until program guidelines are changed or amended, Social Welfare Assistant Secretary and concurrent spokesman Romel Lopez said yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — The aide of former Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Gerald Bantag, Denver Mayores, received a two to eight-year prison term for his role in broadcaster Percy Lapid's murder, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday.
MANILA, Philippine: Seventeen people, including a Kenyan, died when a passenger bus careered off a road on a «killer curve» and plunged down a mountain in the central Philippines, officials said Wednesday.
MANILA: Workers, residents, and students evacuated buildings in the Philippine capital Manila on Tuesday after an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck off the main Luzon island, according to the state seismology agency and images carried by media. There were no immediate reports of casualties and the seismology agency said on X, formerly Twitter, that it did not expect damage, but warned of aftershocks.
AFTERSHOCKS from the magnitude 7.4 quake that rocked Hinatuan town in Surigao del Sur last Saturday may continue in the next several weeks, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said yesterday.
AT LEAST 11 persons were confirmed dead after a powerful explosion ripped through the gymnasium of the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City while Mass was being held Sunday.