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The Bureau of Immigration (BOI) is fully cooperating with its counterpart in Thailand as well as with the International Police or Interpol after the arrest in Thailand of former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes and former Coron, Palawan Mayor Mario Reyes, with the deportation process now ongoing. The Reyes brothers are considered among the top most wanted in the Philippines, and are suspects in the murder of a noted environmentalist and anti-mining advocate, Dr. Jerry Ortega. […]
ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Sept. 22 (PIA) – The Executive Order directing a total ban in the harvesting, transporting, selling and eating of all kinds of shellfish in Capiz is still in effect. The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist head Sylvia dela Cruz disclosed that the directive of Governor Victor Tanco remains in force after the coastal waters and shellfish meat sample especially in Sapian Bay are still positive of red tide toxin. Dela Cruz said […]
QUEZON CITY, Sep. 22 — The Department of Agriculture is set to implement a financing model that further improves credit access for small farmers participating in the agribusiness value chain. The implementation of the program was signaled by the turnover of P40-million worth of funds by the DA’s Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) to the Philippine Postal Savings Bank, Inc. (Postbank) on September 18, 2015. Agriculture Secretary and ACPC Chair Proceso Alcala had likewise signed the […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Grace Poe remains on top as the presidential bet preferred by many Filipinos in the upcoming 2016 national elections, according to the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS). The survey, made from Sept. 2 to 5,showed Poe with a 47% score, or an increase of five points from the last opinion poll of the SWS conducted last June 5 to 8. Former Interior and Local Government secretary Mar […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) identified eight malls as qualified voting centers, citing as one of the reasons that said malls have no political affiliation and have not supported candidates in the past two elections. For the list of qualified malls, please check the accompanying video. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/mHyjc58ST9Q
(Eagle News) — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will re-open the Quezon Avenue-EDSA intersection to southbound vehicles coming from Quezon Ave going left to EDSA and to northbound vehicles going to the Trinoma and SM North area, also coming from Quezon Ave. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
(Eagle News) — According to Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda, the Malacañang is supporting the move of the Senate to investigate the slow internet connectivity of telecommunications companies in the country to find out if the consumers are actually getting what they paid for. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/8VumxQtgeCw
(Eagle News) — Hackers attacked the website of the National Telecommunications Commissions (NTC) as protest for the expensive but slow internet service in the Philippines. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
The Climate Change Commission and the National Youth Commission signed a memorandum of cooperation in order to launch the #nowphilippines signature campaign which aims to garner one million signatures which aims to raise the support of the youth on the issue of climate change. Said signatures will be presented to the United Nations 21st Conference to be held in Paris, France to serve as a call for concrete actions to fight climate change. (Eagle News […]
MANILA, Sep. 21 — Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Secretary Teresita Quintos-Deles showed her typical strong resolve and proclaimed that she, together with the proponents of the peace process, were not giving up on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and that the Bangsamoro aspiration for genuine autonomy and self-determination is within grasp. “For the sake of those communities and especially their children, we dare not give up now. After all […]
A race in the Philippines on Saturday (September 19) gave participants a taste of what it’s like to be in a street protest with mobs, barricades and riot police. Hundreds of participants ran along a two kilometer field of a state university in Manila, climbing over wooden barricades, crawling under barbed wire and crossing muddy slopes while attempting to dodge mobs of mock policemen and rioters in a protest-inspired race. Smoke machines and water cannons […]
Malacanang said it is elated over the Philippines’ ranking in the 2015 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Global Innovation Index (GII) leapfrogging by 17 notches to 83rd from last year’s 100th. This is the country’s best performance so far in the GII in the last five years. “We welcome the positive news that the Philippines has moved up 17 notches in the 2015 Global Innovation Index (GII),” Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a radio […]
