VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Ilocos Sur Gov. Jeremias Singson has ordered the preventive suspension for 60 days of the mayor of Santa Maria town in this province for gross negligence and dereliction of duty. SANTA Maria, Ilocos Sur municipal hall. Mayor Brigido C. Camarillo Jr.’s suspension stemmed...
Music is a universal language, resonating deeply across cultures and movements. From John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance," an anthem for the anti-war movement, to Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" of the 1970s women's liberation movement, and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," celebrating individuality and...
Taguig City 2nd district Rep. Amparo Maria Zamora (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (MANILA BULLETIN) Taguig City 2nd district Rep. Amparo Maria “Pammy” Zamora didn't hold back when asked what should be done to the architects of the...
Did you know mangroves absorb and store around four times more carbon than most tropical forests? A study in Nature Geoscience journal examined the carbon content of 25 mangrove forests across the Indo-Pacific region. It found that, per hectare, mangrove forests can store up to four times...
The Ty family’s GT Capital Holdings, Inc. posted a seven percent growth in core net income to P7.06 billion for the first quarter of 2024 from P6.56 billion in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said consolidated net income likewise grew by seven...
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has warned against information warfare as people are now being emotionally manipulated for profit and other motives. That is done through tech giants and social media companies that are being exploited because tech is "the least regulated industry globally," Ressa...
Addressing climate change has never been more urgent than when Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report found that climate risks are emerging sooner and will worsen faster than anticipated, making adaptation more difficult with rising global temperatures. Low-income...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/MANILA BULLETIN) Taguig City 2nd district Rep. Amparo Maria "Pammy" Zamora believed that President Marcos had his bashers in mind when he reported on Labor Day the P1.7-trillion...
CAMP MARCELO A. ADDURU, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Two suspects in the murder of businessman Jefferson Torricer in 2021 were arrested by the Police Regional Office-2 in Santa Maria, Bulacan, on Sunday, April 21. Police Brig. Gen. Christopher C. Birung, PRO-2 director, said suspects Jerry, a...
CEBU CITY – A criminal complaint has been filed against the mayor of Mandaue City, Cebu and four city councilors after a 9.5-hectare property whose ownership is being claimed by a private individual but was distributed to informal settlers. MARIA Priscilla Melendres (right) puts up a tarpaulin...
Troops discovered a New People’s Army camp and seized an arms cache following an encounter in Barangay Nagcanasan, Pilar, Abra, near the boundary of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, on Tuesday, April 2. VARIOUS items were recovered by the military in a New People's Army camp in Pilar, Abra. According to...
Sen. Raffy Tulfo has filed a resolution raising the issue of conflict of interest in the duties of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga regarding her family's alleged ownership of about 40,000 hectares of land in the towns of Coron and Busuanga...
