The country’s diving industry is now ready to welcome foreign visitors as more than 95 percent of workers in accredited dive establishments already received their vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced Friday, Nov. 26. A diver swims past a...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III has issued guidelines on who can play and watch basketball and other contact sports in the municipality. Ponce issued Executive Order No. 34, adopting Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Resolution 21-28, which he signed, providing guidelines in...
Senators are keen on removing the budget assigned for the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) and give it to the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) if it fails to stop the apparent “harassment” being done against the country’s lone pole vaulter EJ Obiena. It was Senator...
The Senate on Monday recalled the proposed budget of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) for next year for supposedly taking a “hands-off” approach on the case involving pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena and the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa). It was Sen. Pia...
The Chery Tiggo Crossovers edged the California Precision Sports, 25-22, 27-25, 25-23, to take their second win in the Philippine National Volleyball Federation Champions League (PNVF) Monday, Nov. 22 at the Aquamarine Recreational Center. (PNVF file photo) Dominating the match from the get-go, the...
Filipina-American Supermodel Kelsey Merritt is coming home. She confirmed the news herself, announcing it on Instagram. "So excited because I booked my flight home to the Philippines in a few weeks !! I’m coming home," she wrote as caption to a throwback picture of her in Boracay Island. Recall...
The San Juan City local government issued on Thursday, Nov. 18, the guidelines that must be followed after allowing contact sports such as basketball to be conducted in the city amid the COVID-19 pandemic. San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora issued Executive Order. No. FMZ-097 on the protocols for...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III has allowed basketball games in the municipality but set a rule for minors. Ponce issued guidelines involving contact sports after these were allowed by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) under Alert Level 2. Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III with a basketball...
The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) board has approved the resumption of training of select national teams starting Jan. 10, 2022. In a statement, the board said select PH teams could train at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila, the PhilSports Complex in Pasig City and the Baguio...
The Paranaque City government is allowing Christmas bazaars, tiangges, and pop-up stores to operate under Alert Level 2. Mayor Edwin Olivarez said organizers of Christmas bazaars, tiangges, and pop-up stores must secure Mayor’s permit. Olivarez said traders, salespersons, exhibitors, organizers,...
The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is set to recognize Filipina athletes who contributed to the development of their respective sports programs through the 2021 Gintong Gawad Award. celia kiram1 “Gintong Gawad was crafted and envisioned ostensibly designed to give due recognition to women for...
Metro Manila mayors have agreed and recommended to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) the conduct of contact sports in the National Capital Region (NCR), provided that players and spectators are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Under Metropolitan...
