Newly installed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. is in favor of reviving the mandatory Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program to help instill discipline among the youth and spark a consciousness within their minds about the importance of defending...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Forty-five police commissioned officers from the Police Regional Office-13 (PRO-13) are participating in a training to enhance their investigative skills. FORTY-FIVE police commissioned officers (PCOs) from the Police Regional Office-13 join Police Major...
If he had his way, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile would not allow those who oppose the mandatory Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) to go to school. He also asked them to "leave" the country because "you're not Filipinos." "Wala na akong pasensya eh. 'Pag ako masusunod,...
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...