In a small corner on the third floor of Araneta Square Mall in Caloocan City lies an unlikely government office: a barangay. Barangay 76 is the smallest barangay in the Philippines with only two ...

The country is finally holding the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) after five years of being postponed for various reasons. Four people, one of them an incumbent barangay official, ...

Tanods of Barangay Commonwealth in Quezon City seized several improvised boga made from small drinking bottles that were held ...

Fairly enough, society often regards modern heroes as those in the military, police, emergency services, and on the medical frontlines. They perform bold and extraordinary tasks for the community. But ...

BARANGAY 19, Manila – The police report was clear. Anti-drug officers shot and injured three men in this poor district of the Philippine capital, then “rushed” them to hospital where they were ...

Last month while preparing for a commencement speech at St. Luke’s medical school, I went through barangay names in the Philippines looking for those named after the saint (San Lucas). What I did was ...

December 2025, Caloocan City/Quezon City.  A few days before the much-anticipated countdown to the New Year, the EcoWaste Coalition teamed up with ...

MANILA, Philippines – It’s all systems go for the nationwide barangay elections on Monday, October 28. This election is the 7th barangay poll under the 1987 Constitution, and the first that is not ...

I HAVE always thought that the barangay system, if properly harnessed, can provide great benefits to the country in molding the desired cultural and social character of the Filipino. There are ...

A former barangay chairman was shot dead by his brother, the current barangay captain, in Bantay, Ilocos Sur. The incident ...

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A 30-year-old son of a barangay chairman was hurt when gunmen fired M16 assault rifles at their family's roadside bakery in Parangbasak, Lamitan City, Basilan, on Saturday ...

The two registered residents of Barangay 76 in Caloocan do not include the seven village councilors and the chairman. How are they able to hold these positions if they are no longer residents of ...