Forty-two percent of Filipinos believe that senior high school students should have the option to take the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (course) or choose community service, based on the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results that were released on Thursday, May 4. The First Quarter 2023...
'TOL VIEWS The recent Pulse Asia survey conducted last March 15-19, 2023 affirms the relevance and timeliness of Senate Bill 2034 or the Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Act. According to the survey, 78 percent of Filipinos agree that mandatory ROTC should be restored. Respondents...
To implement or not to implement the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a hotly contested issue. There are vocal supporters and passionate oppositionists. Both have valid arguments and data showing why it is beneficial — or useless — to our nation. The consensus that is...
“Anti-people” government policies, such as mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), will neither cure nor solve mental health problems of the country's youth, said Gabriela Women’s Partylist on Tuesday, Feb. 7. This was after National Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. got...
The Speaker Martin Romualdez-led Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD)--the majority party in the House of Representatives--has elected its new national officers and members of its executive committee (execom) and national advisory council (NAC). (Mannix Dalipe's Facebook) In a statement...
COOP-NATCCO Partylist Representative Felimon Espares (House of Representatives) Felimon Espares, an educator and the voice of cooperatives nationwide, brings to the 19th Congress his 31 years of cooperative movement experience as COOP-NATCCO Partylist representative. The National Confederation of...
Parañaque City’s Business Permit and Licensing Office (BPLO) chief, Atty. Melanie Soriano-Malaya, was re-elected for the third time as president of the National Association of Business Permit and Licensing Office (NABPLO). The national convention of BPLO chiefs from different cities and...
ITOGON, Benguet – Some 117 students received gifts from members of the Police Regional Office-Cordillera Officer’s Ladies Club during their outreach activity at Bethesda Ministries International in Barangay Tuding, Itogon, Benguet on Nov. 25. A STUDENT receives a gift from the Police Regional...
A ranking congressman is pursuing a new retroactive retirement plan for the country’s foreign service officers in an effort to upgrade their pensions when they reach old age or suffer some other disability. 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (Facebook) House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list...
There is a new president of the National Unity Party (NUP). (Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte's Facebook) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, a former House deputy speaker, led the new officers of the respected political party after he was elected as party president...
DOH Ahead of the resumption of in-person classes this month, the Department of Health (DOH) reminded schools of the importance of deploying safety officers to ensure compliance with health and safety protocols against Covid-19. “Ang pinaka importante na lagi po nating ipapaalala (The most...
CEBU CITY – The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has officially deputized 16 traffic officers of the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX). They completed and passed the deputization training and examination and are now authorized to strictly enforce traffic rules and regulations inside the...
