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(Eagle News) – The ruling PDP-Laban party has released five initial names of those who would be running for its Senate slate in the 2022 national elections which include House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta and four members of President Rodrigo Duterte’s cabinet. In a release, the PDP Laban listed the “following personalities that will form part” of its initial Senatorial slate: – House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta; – Department of Information & […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BzUmpQK_ts (Eagle News) — House Deputy Speaker Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar explains why they decided to hold a raffle drive in their city to encourage more people to register for vaccines and get immunized against COVID-19. Major prizes such as a house and lot, 2 motorcycles and “pangkabuhayan” or livelihood packages are to be given out. The monthly raffle will start in July with “pangkabuhayan packages” as prizes, and the grand draw […]
Around 200,000 vaccine doses from COVAX facility to arrive by late February (Eagle News) – About 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, “most likely Pfizer” will be coming into the country by February based on the COVAX facility of the World Health Organization, according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. Answering questions at the Senate hearing, Galvez said that the COVAX facility has pledged a total of 40 million vaccine doses for the Philippines which will […]
https://youtu.be/1nt4N_P2v00 (Eagle News) — A top official of the Philippine Carabao Center received a tongue-lashing from a very dismayed Senator Cynthia Villa who severely criticized the agency for its failure to properly use funds meant to increase production of carabao milk in the country. Villar castigated the Executive Director of the Philippine Carabao Center, Dr. Arnel del Barrio, accusing him of misusing funds meant for the development of a carabao processing center, and for other […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Forum Halls, the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay City and the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila will soon be converted into facilities for the “treatment and health monitoring of COVID-19 patients.” Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar announced this on Tuesday, March 31. This would be transformed into COVID-19 facilities in at least two weeks, and the construction workers who set this up […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government inaugurated on Tuesday, Nov. 26, the P260.8 million Ciudad de Victoria Interchange Overpass and Bypass Road in Bocaue, Bulacan. Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar led the inauguration of the government priority project, a few days before the 30th SEA Games opening ceremonies at the Philippine Arena on Nov. 30. The Ciudad de Victoria Interchange Overpass Bridge and Bypass Road “will address the usual heavy […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Public Works and Highways said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s target for a five minute travel time from Cubao to Makati was “doable.” DPWH Secretary Mark Villar said that over-all, what President Duterte had said about this target “are backed by very solid projects.” “Some projects directly affect Edsa. Some projects indirectly affect Edsa. But overall, we expect that the President’s statements are backed by very solid projects,” he […]
(Eagle News)–Reelectionist senator Cynthia Villar further widened her lead over her closest rival, another reelectionist senator Grace Poe, in the senatorial race on Friday, May 17, with 97.88 percent of nationwide election returns canvassed. Based on partial and unofficial results from the Commission on Elections transparency server,Villar had 25,038,068 votes as of 7:29 a.m., as compared to Poe’s 21,862,695. In third place was still Bong Go, with 20,363,829. Below are the other candidates in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections convened as the National Board of Canvassers on Tuesday where reelectionist senators Cynthia Villar and Grace Poe took the lead in its official partial count. In the canvassing that started at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, and ended at 9:23 p.m., opposition senator Bam Aquino was also listed on the 12th spot. The partial and official count or canvass of votes already counted ballots from 34 out […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Cynthia Villar and Grace Poe continued to top the senatorial race, followed by former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go in the latest unofficial and partial returns of the Commission on Elections. Still, no one from the Liberal party’s “Otso Diretso” senatorial slate managed to get in as of the partial Comelec results of 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2018. Villar got 24,463,539 votes topping the list, […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) started the much-awaited desilting operations of Manila Bay on Tuesday, March 5, which will be done six days a week for about four months. Dubbed “Sagip Manila Bay,” the desilting of the bay will be done 16 hours a day, six days a week and will utilize 50 men and a total of 28 equipment, according to DPWH Secretary Mark Villar. The DPWH […]
(Eagle News) — Rescue operations are now ongoing at the site of a landslide in Natonin, Mountain Province where the Department of Public Works and Highways DPWH second district engineering office building was buried under mud and rocks after typhoon Rosita’s onslaught on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, according to DPWH secretary Mark Villar. “Rescue operations now on going at Brgy Banawel, Natonin. Let’s pray for those affected by the landslide,” said DPWH Secretary […]
