POLICE VISIBILITY – A policeman secures a public market in Iloilo City. Additional cops have been deployed in the city which is under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) to curb COVID-19 cases. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – Crime went down 82 percent in this city which has been under...
June 12 is one of the most colorful holidays in the Philippines marking the country's liberation from its Spanish colonizers in 1898. Independence Day flag raising ceremony at the Luneta. (Manila Bulletin file photo) Before the pandemic, it was a holiday people commemorated by decorating public...
How does celebrity actor Jestoni Alarcon look like now? Though this trend of sharing old photos of their parents started last year, it trended again last month for Pinoy TikTokers. Well, remember Jestoni Alarcon from the '90s? His daughter Jessica posted last month a compilation of photos of her...
ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants going beyond the time allowance prescribed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). In a Congressional hearing on...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation has inked a 10-year time charter party with Danish firm Svitzer for the provision of towage and other vessel support services for the former’s interim liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility. In the deal that was signed with Lopez firm subsidiary FGEN LNG...
Landscape Gemma Cruz Araneta Seventy-eight frustrating years had passed since the promulgation of the 1812 Cadiz Constitution which stipulated that colonies and overseas possessions should be considered as provinces, integral parts of Spain, the metropolis. As provinces, these territories would be...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation has earmarked US$530 million capital expenditures (capex) this year that will be funneled mainly to the expansion projects of subsidiary Energy Development Corporation (EDC) as well as its ongoing interim liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal. During the...
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Sunday commended Malacañang and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for upholding the rule of law in naming a new commanding general for the Philippine Army. Lacson, who chairs the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, noted that the appointment of Maj....
The Senate will pursue a review of the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite the gag order on Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade, Jr. and Lorraine Badoy—who are spokespersons for the agency. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian made this assurance even...
The Duterte administration should use Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade, Jr.’s skill for profiling to boost the government’s contact-tracing efforts to help combat the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in the country, Senator Nancy Binay said on Friday, April 23. “Baka yung skill...
Lopez-led First Gen Corporation will be supplying power generated from a renewable energy resource to at least four upscale township and office-tower developments of real estate leader Megaworld Corporation. The power supply agreement, which is under the ambit of Retail Competition and Open Access...
The age of smart phones is ending, paving the way for a single digital smart assistant enabling all devices to "talk" to each other. So, says Dr. Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei consumer BG software engineering department and director of AI and All-scenario intelligence business unit. Dr. Wang...
