PEACE-MAKER In April 2016, the organizations of political parties of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa convened for the first time in Jakarta to explore ways and means of economic and political cooperation among our three continents. The historic (in a sense) meeting was held among...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) has deployed 613 policemen to secure the return of the Chicken Inasal Festival here slated from Friday, May 26, to Sunday, May 28. MORE than 600 policemen are securing the Chicken Inasal Festival in Bacolod City which kicks off Friday, May...
Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, May 24, cited the significant gains by Dabawenyos against the communist rebels during a program in which Davao City marked the first year of being insurgency-free. Vice President Sara Duterte delivers a message during the first anniversary of the...
Underscoring the need for Filipino youth to realize the value of peace and nation-building, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Wednesday, May 24, revealed plans to institutionalize a national peace curriculum under the Department of Education (DepEd). Vice President and Education...
PEACE-MAKER Since early 2020, we have been spending most of our time in our Dagupan City home, which is a short walking distance from the Lingayen Gulf, where General Douglas MacArthur and, earlier, General Masaharu Homma landed on Jan. 9, 1945 and Dec. 22, 1941, respectively. To this day, we...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) assured that the peace and order situation here is still manageable amid a series of street robberies. CCPO chief Police Col. Ireneo Dalogdog said petty crimes are expected to shoot up now that outdoor activities are back to normal. “Our crime rate...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police arrested 31 wanted individuals in the Cordillera region from May 7 to 13. The Police Regional Office-Cordillera-Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division (RIDMD) said the Benguet Police Provincial Office (PPO) nabbed 13 wanted persons, followed by...
CEBU CITY – More policemen were deployed to major streets here as part of the intensified anti-criminality campaign. BRIG. Gen. Anthony Aberin, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7), leads the send-off ceremony for 188 policemen who were deployed to major streets in Cebu City...
PEACE-MAKER The city of our birth, Dagupan, by the edge of Lingayen Gulf, lies close to the pilgrim town of Manaoag, where devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is a faith cast in stone. Our earliest memory of our town was an area of lowlands in the midst of swamps nestled by the South China Sea. In...
ILOILO CITY – A five-day gun ban will be implemented to secure the Manggahan Festival and 31st founding anniversary of the island-province of Guimaras next week. The Philippine National Police (PNP) has approved the request of the provincial government to suspend Permits to Carry Firearms Outside...
The Philippines has echoed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) call for adequate resources from the United Nations for the effective implementation of peacekeeping mandates in the region. Noel Novicio, Philippine representative to the country's mission to the UN, said ASEAN will work...
PEACE-MAKER Cambodia makes history as it hosts for the first time the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which is currently being held in capital Phnom Penh from May 5 to 17. It was supposed to host the games in 1963 but did not push through due to the political situation in the country at the time....
