The government of United States (US) recently donated a drug detection and analysis equipment amounting to P3.5 million to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for its K9 force. PCG K9 UNIT BOOST--Philippine Coast Guard K9 Force Commander Commodore Nelson B. Torre (third from left), U.S. Embassy in the...
Catriona Gray (Instagram) Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray has started accepting applicants for the Catriona Gray Academy. On Instagram, Catriona wrote: "Hey Queens and Kings! I'm sooo excited to announce the resuming of my course: "The Catriona Gray Academy" as we open up to all new applicants in...
President Duterte has asked local government units (LGUs) to create ordinances that would prohibit minors of a certain age from entering shopping malls amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) This, despite the relatively lenient...
Ensuring Delta remains under control CLINICAL MATTERS With few exceptions, the biggest one being China, most of the world has pretty much moved on from a COVID-19 elimination strategy. Zero COVID-19, which was the goal early in the pandemic, became a near-impossibility with the rise of the...
Editorial As face-to-face classes resumed in select public schools on Monday, Nov. 15, it is no longer a question of whether it could be done or not. While yesterday’s pilot run of face-to-face classes by the Department of Education (DepEd) was highly anticipated, both by those who have been...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymundo Lo By this time, most if not all of us have suffered grievous losses due to the pandemic. Personally, I have lost a grandnephew, a classmate, family members of friends and have had to scramble to help many others during their COVID-19 infections. Worldwide, over...
President Duterte has categorically said that Senator Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go does not control him. President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and Senator Bong Go (Malacañang photo) Duterte made this clarification during his pre-recorded "Talk to the People" public briefing on late Monday night, Nov....
Mc Coy De Leon as teen Isko Domagoso “Yorme: The Isko Domagoso Story” with all the songs and music written, and the movie, by director Joven Tan is all set to bring to the silver screen, the aspirational and inspirational life of Francisco Domagoso, popularly known as Isko Moreno. Director...
A students' group hit the presence of armed cops inside a school in Pangasinan during the implementation of pilot face-to-face classes on Monday, Nov. 15. Under the Department of Education's (DepEd) policy for Schools as Zone of Peace, schools should be free from the presence of "armed combatants,...
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) reiterated their calls for key protection measures as the pilot face-to-face classes started on Monday, Nov. 15. (KEITH BACONGCO / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, CEGP Deputy Secretary-General Regina Tolentino cited the Ligtas na Balik Eskwela...
Intensive care unit (ICU) beds and cold storage facilities for COVID-19 vaccines amounting to P6.9 million were donated to several areas in Mindanao by the government of United States (US). (Photo courtesy of the US Embassy in the Philippines) In a statement, the US Embassy in the Philippines said...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) urged the Senate on Monday, Nov. 15, to restore the proposed P28.1 billion Support to the Barangay Development Program (SBDP) for New Peoples’ Army (NPA)-cleared barangays in the 2022...
