Most of the trash we produce end up in landfills, even when thrown in recycling bins. This escalating waste dilemma poses a risk to the environment and human health, prompting the need for people to adopt sustainable practices with a stronger sense of urgency. In the Philippines, where the spirit...
TV host Boy Abunda encouraged graduates to help others and not let people define who they are. Abunda, co-host of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano in the YouTube show “Cayetano in Action with Boy Abunda,” was the speaker at the 18th Commencement Exercises of Taguig City University (TCU). ...
ILIGAN CITY – Police arrested a murder suspect and seized shabu valued at P8.8 million here on Thursday night, August 28. POLICE found suspected shabu worth P8.8 million from a murder suspect in Iligan City on Thursday, August 28. The suspect was a 36-year-old male listed as the fourth most...
BACOLOD CITY – A casual government employee was shot dead in Barangay 2, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday night, August 27. A CASUAL government employee was gunned down in Barangay 2, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, August 27. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental...
BACOLOD CITY – An American drowned in a beach in Barangay 2, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, August 28. An 86-year-old American drowned in a beach in Barangay 2, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, August 28. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office)...
BIÑAN CITY, Laguna – A 55-year-old driver-bodyguard of a city government department head was gunned down in Barangay Soro-Soro, this city, on Wednesday night, August 28. Police identified the victim as Ronald dela Paz. Investigation said Dela Paz had just alighted from a service vehicle...
CEBU CITY — An infectious disease center will soon rise within the government-owned Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) here. SEN. Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. leads the groundbreaking for the construction of the Regional Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Building at the Vicente...
CEBU CITY – Olympic weightlifters Elreen Ann Ando and John Febuar Ceniza received a rousing welcome in their return to their alma mater – the University of Cebu (UC) – here on Thursday, August 29. The school gave Ando and Ceniza a hero’s welcome as well as two other students who...
The Philippines ranked first at the Hong Kong International Mathematical Olympiad (HKIMO) final round held from Aug. 23 to 26. The HKIMO on-site competition was participated in by 700 students, while 1,600 students participated online from 13 countries and regions: Australia, Bulgaria,...
ILOILO CITY — Rep. Julienne “Jamjam” Baronda here refuted allegations made by Mayor Jerry Treñas that she did nothing when then President Rodrigo Duterte tagged the city as the most “shabulized" locality in the country. REP. Julienne 'Jamjam' Baronda and Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City....
Some cyclists in the City of Marikina expressed their gratitude to the local government and the Department of Transportation (DOTr) following the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of active transport infrastructure and the opening of end-of-trip cycling facilities in the city on Thursday,...
A Muntinlupa court denied the motion for reconsideration filed by government prosecutors aiming to overturn the acquittal of former senator Leila de Lima in her last drug case filed in 2017 during the Duterte administration. In a decision dated Aug. 7, Presiding Judge Gener Gito of the ...
