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By Brendan Smialowski NEW YORK, March 29, 2024 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden was joined in New York on Thursday by his predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at a blockbuster fundraising event where he collected $25 million to go towards his re-election bid. The Democrat’s bumper evening took place at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, around an hour’s drive from where his Republican rival Donald Trump had earlier attended a wake for […]
(Eagle News)–A House party-list coalition has taken in former National Youth Commission chair Ronald Cardema as its member. The Party-list Coalition Foundation Inc. accepted Cardema, thereby considering him a congressman, even if the Commission on Elections has yet to decide on whether to allow him to substitute for the nominees of the Duterte Youth partylist who have all withdrawn from the electoral race. The Comelec on Wednesday, May 22, declared the partylist had secured one […]
(Eagle News)—-The Palace has asked the Department of Justice to probe former National Youth Commission chair Ronald Cardema following reports he presided over a meeting even after he was already deemed resigned from his post. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the announcement in a news conference on Tuesday, May 21, six days after the conduct of the meeting, based on a text message from an unknown number received by Panelo. The supposed meeting took place […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has made new appointments in the National Youth Commission and the Energy Regulatory Commission. Duterte signed the appointment of Ronald Gian Cardema as chair of the NYC on Aug. 23. He also appointed lawyer Alexis Lumbatan as ERC member. Lumbatan replaces Gloria Victoria Taruc, who retired on July 10. Lumbatan’s term will end in July 2025.
(Eagle News) — The National Youth Commission on Tuesday, April 23, clarified there were no irregularities in the use of its funds. NYC officer-in-charge Assistant Secretary Ronald Cardema made the statement after the Commission on Audit rapped the agency for allegedly spending almost P300,000 for meals and snacks in 2017. “It is very clear in the (COA) report that there are no irregularities..,” he said. He said in fact, the COA’s concerns with regard to NYC’s […]
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (COMELEC)and the National Youth Commission (NYC) conducted a motorcade on March 1, 2017, around the university belt area as part of the continuing effort to encourage young people to register for the October 2017 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). “COMELEC recognizes the youth’s vital role in nation-building and social change, especially in light of the Sangguniang Kabataan Elections, which will be held again this October after seven years. We […]
The Philippine contingent for the 43rd Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program (SSEAYP) joined a pre-departure orientation held by the Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) of the Embassy of Japan in collaboration with the National Youth Commission (NYC) on October 13, 2016. The pre-departure orientation was officially opened by Minister Hiroyuki Uchida, Head of Chancery of the Embassy of Japan, who congratulated SSEAYP’s continuous and long-running efforts in bringing Japan and Southeast […]
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a retirement plan for private-sector workers and a new light rail system in his State of the City speech on Thursday (February 4), while indicating that social inequality was decreasing under his administration. The Democratic mayor of the United States’ biggest city has been in office for a little over two years. He came to power promising to narrow the inequality gap that he said had created “a […]
MANILA – On Thursday, June 18, 2015, the Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) of the Embassy of Japan, in cooperation with the National Youth Commission (NYC), conducted a pre-departure orientation program for the Philippine delegation to the 42nd Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program (SSEAYP). Opening the program was JICC Director Mr. Tatsuo Kitagawa, who lauded the long-running success – over four decades so far– of SSEAYP and stressed the importance of […]
