The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) instructed regional DRRM offices in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Ilocos (Region 1), Cagayan Valley (Region 2), Central Luzon (Region 3), and National Capital Region (NCR) to conduct rapid damage assessment in areas...
Jose Rizal University dominated the debuting Emilio Aguinaldo College, 77-67, to get a share of the early lead in the Group A standings in the PG Flex Linoleum UCBL Pre-Season tournament Friday at the SGS Gym in Quezon City. A huge opening quarter set the tone in the Heavy Bombers’ romp of the...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House While sailing the waters of the South of France with wife Gina on board the private yacht of our good friends, Frenchman Christian Baverey and his Filipino wife Tetta Agustin, we reminisced our years as a young journalist in the late 1950s...
TACLOBAN CITY – Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. cited the heroism of Police Patrolman Mark Monge who was killed in an encounter with the New People’s Army (NPA) in San Jose de Buan, Samar Saturday, July 16. INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary visits the wake of...
Department of National Defense (DND) Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino Jr. met with the incoming and outgoing defense attaches of Japan to the Philippines on Thursday, July 21. (Photo courtesy of Department of National Defense) Col. Nakano Yu, outgoing Japanese defense attache, and his successor,...
The trustees of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) have elected veteran banker Jose Arnulfo “Wick” Veloso as president and general manager of the state-owned pension fund. Veloso, who was chosen by President Marcos to head the country's pension fund service for state workers, said...
Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles Brown will preside over a thanksgiving Mass in honor of Venerable Teofilo Camomot in Cebu province’s city of Carcar on July 27. PHOTO FROM VENERABLE TEOFILO CAMOMOT FB PAGE The Mass will be held at a chapel located inside the Daughters of St....
NEGROS Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson swears in Vice Mayor Miguel Antonio Peña (2nd from left) and Councilor Anthony Gerard Suatengco as mayor and vice mayor of Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, respectively, at the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City Wednesday, July 20. (Photo courtesy of...
Amid a fresh wave of Covid-19 infections, Department of National Defense (DND) Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino Jr. presided over the first organizational briefing of the National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 under the new administration to prevent a potential massive outbreak driven by new and...
Department of National Defense (DND) Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino Jr. issued Monday, July 18, a 10-point agenda which shall serve as his guidelines to align the department’s policies with the present administration’s promise of a “stronger and better Philippines.” Department of National...
The Archdiocese of Manila has opened the resumption of the cause for beatification and sainthood of Father George J. Willmann, a U.S. Jesuit priest credited for the phenomenal growth of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines. PHOTO Father George Willmann Servant of God FB page CBCP News said...
Jose Rizal University tries to continue its giant-slaying ways as it shoots for a historic trip to the finals when it clashes with Arellano Sunday, July 17, in the final stepladder semis game of the NCAA women’s volleyball at The Arena in San Juan City. The Lady Bombers made history after posting...
