House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday, June 29, declared it is “not a good decision” to seek the vice presidency if it would mean running against President Rodrigo Duterte, who appeared to have a change of heart about sliding one rung below in 2022....
A total of 14,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines will be allocated to the 7,000 tourism industry workers in Davao who will initially get the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jab, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced Tuesday, June 29. A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a Manila...
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – The former mayor of South Korea's second-largest city was jailed for three years on Tuesday for sexually harassing two female staffers, the latest such high-profile conviction in a still patriarchal society. Oh Keo-don stepped down as mayor of southern port Busan...
Two alleged fixers will be sued by the local government of Pasig City for selling vaccination slots to residents, Mayor Vico Sotto said on Tuesday (June 29). Sotto said one of the two individuals they identified was a profiler in one of the city's vaccination teams. "Definitely, charges will be...
Mayor Abigail “Abby” Binay has confirmed that the viral video of a nurse forgetting to administer the COVID-19 vaccine was taken at a vaccination site in Makati City, but assured that the "human error" was immediately corrected. “We acknowledge the video. It was human error on the part of the...
The mayor of Caraga, Davao Oriental was found guilty of simple neglect of duty by the Office of the Ombudsman based on the the case filed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for failure to comply with the President’s order to clear roads in her town from illegal...
More than 200,000 individuals have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Pasig City, Mayor Vico Sotto announced on Monday (June 28). "Good news, lampas na tayo doon sa (we have breached the) 200,000 jab mark, nasa 205,000 na tayo ngayon (we are now at 205,000). Karamihan niyan ay first dose,...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora announced on Monday, June 28, that the city is now very close to achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 after the city has vaccinated over 60,000 of its target population against the coronavirus disease. (Photo from San Juan PIO) "As of June 25, we have been...
BATANG MAYNILA Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Last June 24, we celebrated our beloved city of Manila’s “Araw ng Maynila” marking our city’s 450 th Founding Anniversary. Apart from the activities attendant to the celebration which were carried out very carefully in observance of the health...
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM), the world’s biggest alliance for city climate leadership with more than 10,500 member cities and local governments, has appointed Makati City Mayor Abby Binay as one of its board members on Sunday, June 27. Makati City Mayor Abby Binay...
The dismissal from the service of six Negros Oriental police officers involved in the unlawful arrest of Moises Padilla mayor Ella Garcia-Yulo, who was then a vice-mayor when the incident occurred in 2017, is a proof that the government does not tolerate political partisanship in the Philippine...
Makati City Mayor Abigail “Abby” Binay said former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III dedicated the best years of his life to the country. Binay issued the statement following the demise of the former president at a hospital in Quezon City on Thursday (June 24, 2021). In a Facebook post,...
