By MBJ on August 7, 2009
Police said they arrested a taxi driver who went to their station to file a complaint that his cab was carnapped. But instead of being the victim, the driver, identified as Leoncio Ballesteros, a resident of suburban Quezon City in Metro Manila, turned out to be the prime suspect in allegedly robbing and molesting his woman passenger.
Posted in Metro, Off Beat | Tagged manila police, philippine police, pinoy news, taxi driver, [hilippine taxi driver |
By MBJ on July 29, 2009
Eight drug-sniffing dogs have been declared as going on “absent without official leave†(Awol) by the Commission on Audit because the government agency to which they have been assigned could not explain their whereabouts.
Posted in Metro, Off Beat | Tagged anti-drugs dogs, awol, drugs sniffing dogs, pdea, philippine anti narcotics program, philippine dogs, pinoy news |
By MBJ on July 26, 2009
In their letters, the President said the boys expressed their hopes and dreams, especially because their families were still recovering from the tragedy that struck them at the Payatas dump site in Quezon City on July 10, 2001.
Posted in Nation, Off Beat | Tagged Erwin Dolera, gloria arroyo, Jason Vann Banogan, Jomar Pabalan, mang pandoy, sona 2009, sona speech 2009 |
By MBJ on July 21, 2009
It was a most unusual award, coming as it did from the Central Bank of the Philippines (CB) which recently honored one of its branches in a province in the Visayas for “money laundering.â€
Posted in Off Beat, Region | Tagged aklan, bills and coins, central bank, kalibo, money laundering, typhoon, visayas |
By MBJ on July 19, 2009
What was once a violence-torn “barangay†(village) in Zamboanga del Sur province in Mindanao, mainly due to a clan war, is now a peaceful and thriving community that is looking forward to still better times ahead.
Posted in Off Beat, Region | Tagged dswd, kalahi awardee 2009, muslim communities, philippines news, pinoy news, Ustadz Gamar Abdullah Dagadas, zamboanga del sur |
By MBJ on July 12, 2009
Director General Jesus Verzosa, the PNP chief, said he himself issued the order after he saw the official, later identified as Charles Sullivan, being caught on video while attacking the gasoline boy in suburban Quezon City, Metro Manila.
Posted in Metro, Off Beat | Tagged Charles Sullivan, gloria arroyo, gun ban, gun permit, jesus versoza, manila police, philippine police, pinoy news |
By MBJ on July 5, 2009
A Filipino woman, long wanted in the country after her conviction by a lower court for large-scale swindling, was arrested despite her attempt to hide her true identity by undergoing facial reconstruction surgery while hiding in the US, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) reported.
Posted in Metro, Off Beat | Tagged face job, facelift, facial reconstruction surgery, manila, manila news, metro manila, national bureau of investigation, nimfa montes beredo, Pasig City, patricia beredo, Philippine, philippine news |
By MBJ on June 22, 2009
In fact, Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. of the Department of Public Works and Highways admitted that in some cases, the suggestive billboards distract him or his driver, forcing them to slow down.
Posted in Nation, Off Beat | Tagged billboards, bloggista updates, contribute blog articles, free business directory, free links directory, manila traffic, philippine free classified ads, pinoy blog news, pinoy social network club |
By MBJ on June 19, 2009
Based on the police report, the eight suspects, armed with revolvers and long arms, arrived at the gasoline station, located along the South Luzon Expressway in suburban Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila at about 3 a.m. on Wednesday.
Posted in Metro, Off Beat | Tagged news philippines, philippine news blog, pinoy news |
By MBJ on June 14, 2009
“I have nothing. I have no money,†the widow of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos told reporters as she emerged from the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court where she was ordered to post a cash bond equivalent to about $15,000.
Posted in Nation, Off Beat | Tagged imelda marcos, imelda marcos and money, imelda shoes, manila news, philippine news, pinoy news |
By MBJ on June 4, 2009
A jobless woman overseas Filipino worker (OFW), who is based in Hong Kong, was honored for returning the equivalent of more than $40,000 in cash and checks which she found inside a garbage bin to the owner – reward for her honesty – a can of butter cookies.
Posted in Buhay OFW, Nation, Off Beat | Tagged hong kong ofw, jobless ofw, mildred perez, ofw, overseas filipino worker |
By MBJ on June 3, 2009
If examples in the recent past were an indication, it would have been “easy sailing” for this band of robbers who tried break into a bank in suburban Caloocan City, Metro Manila shortly before noon on Saturday, police said.
Posted in Nation, Off Beat | Tagged caloocan city, manila, philippines, pinoy news, union bank branches, union bank caloocan, union bank robbery |
By MBJ on May 31, 2009
Lazatin said this was particularly true of the bags that mostly grade school students have been required to bring to their classes by a private school run by priests and nuns in one of the towns of Pampanga.
Posted in Nation, Off Beat | Tagged Congressman Carmelo Lazatin, filipino children, filipino kids, filipino students, lazatin, pinoy kids, pinoy students |
By MBJ on May 24, 2009
This robbery suspect probably thought he could escape by throwing money at the pursuing mob. But he failed and is now languishing in jail and nursing the wounds inflicted on him by his pursuers when they caught up with him.
Posted in Metro, Off Beat | Tagged robbery suspect, sonny hernani, tondo manila |
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