OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo In Pulse Asia’s latest survey covering quarterly rating from September 2020 to September 2021, the Duterte administration scored the lowest approval in controlling inflation. From September 2020’s rating of 63 percent, controlling inflation slumped to...
KOLKATA, India -- Two fishermen were reported dead after a cyclone packing strong winds and rains barreled into India's east coast late Sunday, forcing the evacuation of more than 200,000 people in three states to shelters. Cyclone Gulab made landfall between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh just after 6...
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) denied Friday, Sept. 10, that the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Jail where two detainees were killed in a Sept. 7 shooting incident is under its jurisdiction. BJMP logo "Oriental Mindoro Provincial Jail is not under the jurisdiction and management of...
President Duterte has acknowledged the unsavory milestone of having recorded over two million coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, but it didn't take him long to find a reason to commend Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III over a supposed silver lining. President Duterte...
Two barangays in San Rafael town in Bulacan have been placed under granular lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. San Rafel, Bulacan Municipal Hall San Rafael Mayor Cipriano D. Violago Jr. said the Purok 3 and 4 in Barangay Capihan and the Paseo de San Roque Village of Brgy. San Roque have been...
The death toll in a botched escape plan of inmates at the Marikina City Jail has increased to three after a jail guard succumbed to serious body injuries, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said Friday, Aug. 27. Major Xavier Solda, spokesperson of the Bureau of Jail Management and...
BEIJING, China -- China will "strive to provide" two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world this year and donate $100 million to the international vaccine distribution system known as Covax, President Xi Jinping said Thursday. Chinese President Xi Jinping (Xinhua/File) The pledge came in a...
All qualified beneficiaries of the national government's cash assistance (ayuda) in the National Capital Region during the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) are still entitled to receive it even if they have not yet been vaccinated, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said on...
Seven drug suspects, including two minors, were arrested in separate drug-bust operations conducted by members of the Pasay City Station Drug Enforcement Unit (SDEU) and confiscated from them shabu and dried marijuana leaves. Col. Cesar Paday-os, city police chief, identified the arrested suspects...
The country's quarantine classification will be reviewed and decided upon every two weeks to immediately respond to the threat of the Delta coronavirus variant in the country, Malacañang said Tuesday. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a public address on pandemic response at the Malacañang...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged local government units (LGUs) on Monday night, July 19, to immediately prepare strategic plans to counter the possible local transmission of the far more dangerous Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a briefing...
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Office Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (IADITG) arrested on Monday, July 12, two female drug pushers and seized 5,637 pieces of ecstasy placed in a box of foot massager during an...
