Quezon’s Cagbalete Island reopens to local tourists
MANILA, Philippines — Cagbalete Island, one of Quezon province’s leading tourist destinations, will reopen to local visitors starting Feb. 5 as Mauban town resumes tourism activities to help its...
View ArticleQuezon-Laguna bus trips resume
LUCENA CITY—Two bus companies were allowed to resume their regular trips from this provincial capital of Quezon to Biñan City in Laguna province starting Feb. 8, nearly a year after their operations...
View Article2 soldiers killed, 1 wounded in second clash with NPA in a day in Quezon
LUCENA CITY—Two Army soldiers were killed and another was wounded in a clash with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Quezon province on Friday (Feb. 5), the second to occur in the same vicinity in...
View ArticleQuezon logs 8 Covid-19 deaths in first week of February
LUCENA CITY – Eight patients succumbed to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) so far this month in Quezon, bringing the death toll in the province to 232 as of Feb. 5. In its 10 a.m. bulletin on...
View ArticleDrug suspect gunned down in Quezon
LUCENA CITY – A drug suspect was shot dead in Candelaria, Quezon Friday night, police said Saturday. The Quezon police said that Jaime Arpia, 30, who was on his motorcycle, was shot by a lone gunman...
View ArticleMotorbike rider dies in Lucena City road crash
LUCENA CITY – A motorcycle rider died in a hit-and-run incident along the Maharlika Highway in the outskirts of this city on Saturday night, police said Sunday. The Quezon police reported that Rex...
View Article76 baby turtles released in Tayabas Bay
LUCENA CITY –– Local officials, environmentalists, and concerned citizens set free 76 Olive Ridley sea turtle (“pawikan”) hatchlings to their natural habitat in Tayabas Bay in Sariaya town, Quezon...
View Article41 marijuana bricks, ‘shabu’ seized from 2 Isabela villagers
QUEZON, Isabela –– Police on Thursday seized 41 dried marijuana bricks and sachets of “shabu” (crystal meth) from two villagers during a buy-bust operation here. Col. James Cipriano, Isabela police...
View Article2 Quezon drug suspects fall
LUCENA CITY – Two drug suspects, one of them a “taho” vendor, were arrested in separate operations Tayabas City on Friday and Saturday. Operatives from the Tayabas police anti-narcotics agents...
View ArticleQuezon Covid-19 death toll rises to 246
LUCENA CITY – Health authorities in Quezon have recorded three more coronavirus disease (Covid-19) deaths, bringing the total death toll in the province to 246. The Integrated Provincial Health Office...
View ArticleCOVID-19 death toll in Quezon province now 252
LUCENA CITY—The province of Quezon has been recording COVID-19 fatalities for three successive days with two more patients dying on Wednesday (Feb. 24), raising the death toll to 252. In a 5 p.m....
View ArticleActive Covid-19 cases in Quezon drops from 1,119 to 171 in 3 months
LUCENA CITY – From the highest tally of 1,119 active Covid-19 cases daily more than three months ago, the present number of patients in Quezon province went down to 171 on Feb. 27. Records of the...
View ArticleSecurity guard shoots brother dead in Quezon province
LUCENA CITY –– A 50-year-old security guard shot and killed his elder brother after a heated argument in Tiaong town in Quezon province on Tuesday, March 2. A report said the local police received a...
View ArticleClashes between Army, NPA getting more frequent in Quezon province
LUCENA CITY—Soldiers and communist guerrillas clashed twice in two towns in Quezon province on Friday (March 5), the military said. The first clash took place at a village in Lopez past 6 a.m., the...
View Article2 more COVID-19 patients die in Quezon; total death toll now 263
LUCENA CITY — Two more COVID-19 patients from Tiaong and Gumaca towns in Quezon have died, bringing the death toll in the province to 263, the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) disclosed in...
View Article5 drug suspects busted in Quezon
LUCENA CITY – Police seized an estimated P160,000 worth of shabu (crystal meth) and an illegal firearm from five drug suspects in separate buy-bust operations in this city, Tayabas City and Sariaya...
View ArticleActive COVID-19 cases in Lucena City down to 7
LUCENA CITY – The number of active COVID-19 cases in this city dropped to seven as of Saturday from a high of 279 four months ago, the Lucena public information office, citing the latest report from...
View ArticleQuezon taps peoples’ groups in COVID-19 vaccination drive
LUCENA CITY –– The provincial government of Quezon has tapped the help of people’s organizations to address the widespread public skepticism on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program....
View ArticleOver P280K shabu seized from 2 Quezon drug suspects
LUCENA CITY – Two drug suspects yielded over P287,000 worth of shabu (crystal meth) in a police operation in Candelaria, Quezon early Saturday. The Quezon police identified the arrested suspects as...
View ArticleSuspected NPA rebel killed in Quezon clash
LUCENA CITY – An alleged New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed in an encounter with Army troopers in Mauban, Quezon Friday afternoon. The Army’s 59th Infantry Battalion on Saturday said the...
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