The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has urged the Senate to pass a magna carta for anti-drug personnel as it investigates the case of one of its agent believed to have been abducted. During the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs hearing into the case of missing PDEA...
Colette dela Cruz, the inspiration behind the name of iconic pasalubong brand Colette’s Buko Pie succumbed to COVID-19 on Sept. 12, 2021, at age 46. News about her death was shared by Manila Bulletin columnist Tonyo Cruz on Twitter . Colette dela Cruz, the inspiration behind Colette's Buko Pie's...
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Sunday pushed for the immediate approval of Senate Bill No. 2369 or the Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, saying there is no better time to enact it into law but now during an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Dela Rosa noted that the deployment abroad of Filipino...
Amid criticisms on the logic behind arming firefighters, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) explained that the move will expand the role of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) during emergency and critical situations. “Aside from fire protection services, the BFP will also...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr Rolando Dela Rosa In today's Gospel reading, Jesus asks the apostles: "Who do you say that I am?" Peter replies: "You are the Christ" (Mark 8:29-30). He gives the right answer, but does not understand what it means. Peter thinks that the Christ will come in majesty and glory,...
Las Piñas City Mayor Imelda Aguilar ordered the city’s Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Office (DRRMO) to be on 24-hour standby for possible evacuation of residents who will be affected by flooding brought by tropical depression “Jolina”. According to Alejandro dela Merced, DRRMO...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. While Filipinos still suffer from the adverse effects of the pandemic, some politicians are already mounting their election campaigns. Their advertisements (‘paid for by friends’) clutter the airwaves, television, and the social media. They know...
Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa was designated as one of the vice chairpersons of the Senate Committee on Finance on Tuesday, August 31. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, chairman of the Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, presides on February 12, 2020, a hearing on the proposal to...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Recently, there have been a spate of televised exposés and senate hearings regarding the misuse of Philhealth and COVID-19 funds. Media journalists add fuel to these exposés, through tidbits of information that steer us in certain directions...
Senator Ronald ‘’Bato’’ dela Rosa on Wednesday, August 25, defended the continued funding for the government’s anti-insurgency program through the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Senator Bato De la Rosar Based on his personal experience in travelling...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. In today's Gospel reading, Jesus told the Jews who avidly followed Him that He would offer them His body and blood as food. The Jews, who took Jesus's words literally, must have muttered to themselves: "Eat his flesh and blood? What does he think of us,...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. We celebrate today the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that extraordinary event when Mary was taken into heaven — body and soul — right at the end of her earthly life. It was extraordinary because our body decays after death as a consequence...
