Retired Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Commandant George V. Ursabia Jr. was appointed as the new undersecretary for maritime of the Department of Transportation (DOTr). Newly appointed Department of Transportation Undersecretary for Maritime George V. Ursabia Jr. (Photo from Philippine Coast Guard)...
Nearly 70,000 members of the Social Security System (SSS) have been laid off from their jobs, and received unemployment benefits from the pension fund in the first three quarters of the year. In a statement, Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer said on Thursday, Nov. 18,...
The anti-smuggling unit of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) raided a warehouse in Malabon that resulted in the seizure of approximately P4.72-million worth of smuggled agricultural products. Seized during the warehouse raid in Catmon, Malabon were imported vegetables like broccoli, carrots and red...
Lt. Gen. Andres Centino, the newly installed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), has issued his very first directive to the 150,000-strong military and that is to finish off the communist insurgency before President Duterte steps down from office in June 2022. Lt. Gen....
EDITORIAL Early this week, the President designated a new chief for the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the person of Dionardo Bernardo Carlos. He took over from retired PNP chief, Police General Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar. Carlos is now the seventh PNP chief to serve in the Duterte...
Retired police general Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar bowed out of service with a big jump in the trust and approval ratings of the Philippine National Police (PNP). Starting with 25th in ranking in approval rating and 22nd in trust rating in the survey conducted for all government agencies on May this...
President Duterte has appointed Philippine Army commanding general Lt. Gen. Andres Centino as the next chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Centino will replace General Jose Faustino whose mandatory retirement age of 56 is today, Nov. 12. Centino is the 57th AFP chief of...
Malacañang has confirmed the designation of Lt. Gen. Andres Centino as the new chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) effective Friday, Nov.12, 2021. Newly-installed AFP chief, Lt. Gen. Andres Centino (Photo from Facebook) Thus, said Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in a...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Friday urged newly-appointed Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Lt. Gen. Dionardo Carlos to review the PNP’s use of its anti-insurgency funds. Drilon challenged the incoming PNP leadership as he finds it suspicious that the PNP conducted about 13...
He is called the police’s version of the Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) and now, Police Lt. Gen. Dionardo Bernardo Carlos will be ruling over the 222,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP). photo: Dionardo B. Carlos Facebook page Carlos will take over the leadership of the PNP on November 13,...
President Duterte has chosen Lt. Gen. Dionardo Carlos to be the successor of the Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar. Malacañang Palace (Photo from PNA) A copy of Carlos's signed appointment paper was acquired by Malacañang reporters Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 10....
President Duterte has yet to pick a successor for Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, although such decision is imminent. President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and PNP Chief General Guillermo Eleazar (Photos from Malacañang, Facebook) Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque...
