Touched by angels CHERUBS AND TREES In photo: Ambassador Gaschen with QC Mayor Joy Belmonte and guards of QC Female Dormitory. Cover design by Jules Vivas By this time, Christmas decorations are starting to go up in most Filipino homes. That is, if they haven’t been there since September. There...
Many families will go bankrupt if Congress will continue to ignore warnings aired by various groups against the grant of legislative franchises to firms operating e-sabong betting in the country. Former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano Former House Speaker and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano...
Providing a means to showcase skills and expertise in various technical vocational fields, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in the National Capital Region (NCR) said on Tuesday, Nov. 9 that it opened its week-long 2021 Regional Skills Competition. (Photo from TESDA /...
Senator Pia Cayetano on Thursday, Oct. 21 slammed the reductions in the over-all budget of state universities and colleges (SUCs) and on the capital outlay of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) under their proposed 2022 national budget. At the Senate finance subcommittee’s hearing on the...
Former speaker and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano on Tuesday, Oct 19 urged presidential candidates to put on top of their platform of governance the protection of Filipino values. Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano Cayetano made the appeal as he aired serious concern over the rise of online gambling...
Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano welcomed the easing of quarantine classification in Metro Manila from Alert Level 4 to 3, saying vaccinated people are now given more access to establishments. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) earlier approved the...
Visitors to cemeteries and memorial parks in Taguig are allowed to stay in the premises for up to two hours only under the guidelines issued by the city government. The city government’s Taguig Safe City Task Force has issued Advisory No. 53 on the operation of cemeteries, memorial parks and...
Taguig City has fully inoculated more than 592,000 individuals and administered a total of 1.22 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. According to an update by TRACE Taguig, as of Oct. 12, 592,387 individuals in Taguig are now fully vaccinated. Vaccination in Taguig (Screenshot from Taguig City...
Two senators on Wednesday, Oct. 13 expressed hope that the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) and the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) would finally return to normal operations as a specialized hospital despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. During the hearing of the proposed budget of the...
Some senators on Wednesday suggested that local government units (LGUs) should take the lead in feeding programs administered by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) and other government agencies. During the Senate finance subcommittee’s hearing on the budget of Department of Health (DOH) and its...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Taguig released the complete list of candidates running for local positions in the May 9, 2022 elections. From Oct. 1 to 8, 46 candidates filed their Certificates of Candidacy (COCs) with Comelec-Taguig. Two are running for mayor, two for vice mayor, and 42 for...
Taguig Rep. Lani Cayetano is running for mayor of Taguig under the Nacionalista party in a bid to replace her brother-in-law Lino as the city’s chief executive in the May 9, 2022 elections. “Ako ho ay magbibigay-daan at buong puso ko pong tinatanggap dahil bilib ho ako sa liderate ni Ate Lani...