Then-Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo received over 590,000 votes in Negros Occidental when she ran for vice president in 2016. Vice President Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Now with the presidency on her sights, Robredo is back in the province with high hopes that its...
The House Committee on Public Works and Highways has sought the construction of the Pacific Palisades Superhighway that would connect the provinces of Bicol, Quezon, Aurora, Quirino, Isabela and Cagayan. Rep. Aleta Suarez The House panel endorsed for approval House Bill 5269 authored by Quezon...
Anti-narcotics operatives on Saturday, Oct. 23 uprooted P20.6 million worth of marijuana plants in three different plantation sites in Cebu province. In a statement, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said the three plantation areas are one in Balamban town and two in Toledo City. The...
Antique province has pledged support to the presidential bid of Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso, believing that he has the "competence and right skills to lead the country". (Photo courtesy of IM Media / MANILA BULLETIN) Domagoso's father, Joaquin Domagoso, was from the town of Hamtic...
The Duterte administration continues to churn out accomplishments under its flasghip "Build, Build, Build" program in the final months of the President Duterte's term. (Screenshot from Facebook live) This, as the President inaugurated on Thursday, Oct 21, the Sariaya by-pass road in Quezon...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) exhorted the public on Friday, Oct. 15, not to vote for candidates with illegal drug trade connections in the May 2022 national and local elections. PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva (Photo from PDEA) PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva...
Recalibrated tourism products focusing on faith, food, art, adventure, and nature are set to be developed in Rizal as part of efforts to revive the tourism industry in the province and in the entire CALABARZON region. Campsite and farm in Antipolo, Rizal. (Photo from When In Rizal Facebook Page)...
Text and images by Bonn Erasmo CHILD'S PLAY A kid, Simone, enjoys climbing the katmon tree to pick some fruits (Photo by the author, cover design by Jules Vivas) The Kinalin barrio farm can be accessed by taking a 15-minute ride on...
Tanay town in Rizal has logged 78 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, including nine minors aged four to 15 years old, as of Sept. 24. The youngest COVID-19 patient is a four-year-old boy from Barangay Tandang Kutyo, who like the eight other minors, has experienced mild symptoms. Some of them...
Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Koshikawa Kazuhiko on Thursday led the inauguration of the Imus Retarding Basin, a project designed to protect low-lying areas in Cavite against flooding. 65th-year anniversary logo of Japan-Philippines ties (Embassy of Japan in Manila) Public Works Secretary...
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus), also known as butanding, was trapped in a fishnet near the seashore of Atimonan, Quezon on Wednesday morning. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-CALABARZON (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) said the whale shark, with an estimated length...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has extended its enhanced mushroom cultivation technology to mushroom growers in Cebu province under its Grants-In-Aid (GIA) program. (Image by Ngoc Huy Nguyen from PIXABY/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña...
