P3m reward up for info leading to Bantag, Zulueta arrest—DOJ

By Rey E. Requejo

THE Department of Justice has offered a P3 million cash reward to anyone who can provide credible information that could lead to the arrest of former Bureau of Corrections chief

Gerald Bantag and former deputy officer Ricardo Zulueta.

DOJ spokesperson and Assistant Secretary Mico Clavano revealed that the DOJ and the National Bureau of Investigation are offering P2 million

FE.1 Omicron subvariant detected in PH; NCR positivity going down

THE Department of Health has detected the country’s first case of FE.1 subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron strain. The lone case of the XBB sublineage was recorded through genome sequenc- ing on 2,340 samples conducted from May 29 to June 12.

“Currently available evidence for the variant does not suggest any differences

QUITO, Ecuador—An elderly Ecuadoran woman who woke up inside a coffin at her own wake -- sparking a viral video, of course -- has now died for real, authorities said Sunday.

A video posted on social media last week shows Bella Montoya, 76, in her open coffin breathing heavily while two men assist her. Her son, Gilbert Barbera, said she had been banging on the inside of the casket, desperate to get out as her relatives mourned her. She had been erroneously declared dead on June 9.

By Rio N. Araja, Charles Dantes and Joel E. Zurbano

MORE than 600 people who were moved to evacuation centers as a result of the unrest in Mayon Volcano have