Senator Loren Legarda has called on lawmakers to prioritize measures proposing urgent reforms in the country’s defense institutions, particularly the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Legarda, the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on...
Social Security System (SSS) members and pensioners received good news last week. As the state-run pension fund recorded a sharp hike in net income to ₱143 billion — and its reserve fund also hit the ₱1-trillion mark for the first time in the state insurer’s history — SSS President and...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will visit the Kalayaan Island Group in Palawan in the coming months to assess urgent infrastructure needs and implement essential projects ahead of larger developments planned for 2027. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the visit follows President...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of the United Nations Security Council called Wednesday for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasted Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution, coming on the eve of President Donald Trump’s...
Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno" Domagoso visited Metro Pacific Fresh Farms (MPFF) in San Rafael, Bulacan, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, as part of his administration 's bid to introduce modern urban farming technologies in Manila to curb food shortages and ensure food security in the...
A newly refurbished operations center was turned over to the Joint Peace and Security Teams (JPST) to strengthen women’s participation in peace and security efforts in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has ordered an audit of the security agency managing two security guards of the Intramuros Administration after they got involved in a viral fistfight with a teenager. PNP Chief, Police General Jose Melencio C. Nartatez Jr. said the Supervisory Office for...
Manila City Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso announced that the city government is working with the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) to explore the adoption of Singapore’s urban farming technologies as part of the city government 's efforts to strengthen food sufficiency in Manila...
The Intramuros Administration (IA) plans to terminate its contract with JSL Security Agency, employer of the two security guards caught on camera assaulting a 17-year-old teenage boy along the Pasig River Esplanade in Intramuros, Manila, on Sunday night, Feb. 8. "The Intramuros Administration...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso ordered an immediate investigation into the now-viral video of a fistfight between two Intramuros Administration security guards and a 17-year-old teenage boy at the Riverside Plaza Mexico Esplanade in Intramuros, Manila, on Sunday night, Feb. 8....
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Nineteen security guards assigned to the allegedly anomalous multi-million flood control projects by Sunwest Inc. in Naujan and Bongabong towns in Oriental Mindoro have filed individual complaints before the Department of Labor and Employment against their...
A 39-year-old security guard was fatally shot by a motorcycle-riding gunman in front of a condominium building along Yakal Street in Barangay San Antonio, Makati City, on Sunday, Jan. 18. Based on the police report, the victim was about to eat at an eatery when one of the suspects wearing a black...
