Again, Malacañang and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases are not playing fair. Because the law, specifically Section 105 of the Local Government Code, prohibits the national government from imposing its mandate on local government units after a period of six months during an emergency situation like a pandemic, […]
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Editorial: Welcome developments
The Philippine National Police (PNP) began using body cameras in its operatioons on June 4, 2021. That took around four years since it began procurement in 2017, one of the takeaways from the public pressure following the killing of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos and 19-year old Karl Angelo Arnaiz in August 2017 in Caloocan City. […]
Limpag: Azkals statesmen
He’s like a taller and faster version of Phil Younghusband, that was how one writer who travelled with the Philippine national team to Myanmar for the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers described Angel Guirado. That was in March 2011 and the Azkals was riding a wave of popularity, thanks to Hanoi 2010 and the win […]
Authorities nab Korean ‘gang member’
A KOREAN national who is an alleged member of a Korean gang in his home country was caught inside a mall in Barangay Apas, Cebu City on Wednesday afternoon, June 2, 2021. Kim Byung-gon, 43, was apprehended by the operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7. Kim is facing a criminal case […]
Editorial: Tooth and nail
SEN. Franklin Drilon sets out a preemptive strike at what will most likely be a “huge campaign kitty,” the 2022 national budget, but specifically points to what could be the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) proposed P28 billion funding. Drilon said he’d oppose the budget “tooth and nail.” “We should […]
DA task force seizes P100-M of smuggled frozen products
An intelligence unit of the national task group on food security has confiscated around P100 million worth of smuggled frozen food products after a raid in Brgy. San Rafael Village, Navotas City. In an anti-smuggling operation held yesterday, authorities seized 12 refrigerated container vans holding an assortment of frozen pork, beef, jumbo shrimp, eel, black […]
Sunday Essay: Should local public hospitals stay local?
If we have chosen local government officials who are competent to run these public hospitals or at least wise enough to delegate the challenge to those who can do it, then the answer is yes. This is not a new question. It began to come up not long after many public health services were transferred […]
Editorial: A tale of two who lost it
A bit from the man’s tale leaked out. His brother was shot dead and perhaps out of disenfranchised grief, the fellow took to the Argao town parish and in high dudgeon felled the saints early morning of May 12, 2021. Witnesses said he knocked over St. Raphael, breaking one of the poor archangel’s gypsum wings, […]
Carvajal: Whose national interest?
LAST I looked our national problem is still the dehumanizing poverty of 30 million or so Filipinos. No administration so far, including the current one, has made a substantive dent on this problem because we have always been ruled by politicians who represent the interests of a wealthy and privileged few. This humungous problem includes […]
Solon calls for house-to-house vaccination for PWDs
A LAWMAKER called on the national government to implement a policy of house-to-house coronavirus vaccination for persons with disabilities (PWDs). Quezon City Rep. Alfred D. Vargas, in a statement on Thursday, said he filed House Resolution 1727 after seeing Quezon City and some other local governments doing this for those who cannot go to coronavirus […]
11 footballers in Region 7 get into national team
A TOTAL of 11 footballers from Central Visayas have been named into the National Pool for Under-16/Under-17 and Under-19/Under-20 Girls Football squads. The Central Visayas Football Association announced on its official Facebook page that Trizza Musni, Ma. Andrea Evangelista and Rae Mikella Tolentino were selected to the National Pool of the Under-19/Under-20 Girls team that […]
Editorial: The waiting game
For the second time this week, Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella sought an update on the next shipment of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) from the national government. The City Government was forced to halt the inoculation of senior citizens on Friday, April 23, 2021, after it ran out of vaccines. On Monday, […]
ILO calls for greater investment in workplace safety, health
THE International Labor Organization (ILO) called for greater investment in occupational safety and health (OSH) infrastructure in their national crisis management preparations. In a statement Wednesday, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said, “There could be no clearer demonstration of the importance of a strong, resilient, occupational safety and health environment. Recovery and prevention will require better […]
Nalzaro: Sloppy police investigation
I am not undermining the police capability in handling criminal investigations. But sloppy police investigation led to the dismissal of cases at the prosecutor’s office and in the court. Worse, no progress in their investigations and no cases will be filed at all. But we cannot solely blame the police in criminal investigations because there […]
Pandemic response to be part of national security plan — DND
PANDEMIC response would become a top national security priority, the country’s Defense chief said on Sunday, more than a year since the coronavirus pandemic started. Government response to pandemics would be included in the country’s national security plan, Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana said in a Viber message. “This pandemic has clearly demonstrated that health […]
Budget reform bill filed in House to deter unfunded mandates
A BILL has been filed in the House of Representatives seeking to better align budget items with national government priorities and to deter proposed uses of public money with no identified funding sources. House Bill No. 9214, which if passed will go into the books as the Budget Modernization Act, was filed by Representative Jose […]
ERC sets capacity, market share limits for grids
THE ENERGY Regulatory Commission (ERC) has released its caps for installed generating capacity and market share limitations for the national and Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao grids. In a resolution posted on its website, the ERC set the IGC of the national grid this year at 23.42 million kilowatts (kW), with 15.97 million kW allotted for […]
Scrabble marks UK lockdown easing with light show
LONDON — Some of Britain’s favorite words were projected onto buildings around London to mark the easing of lockdown restrictions and National Scrabble Day on Tuesday. Words like “freedom,” “hope,” “family,” and “beer” to represent the mood of the nation were beamed in the style of the game’s letter tiles onto a pub, shops and […]
Sto. Niño de Cebu, Basilica declared nat’l treasures
THE image of the Sto. Niño de Cebu and the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño de Cebu were declared as national cultural treasures by the National Museum of the Philippines on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, exactly 500 years after the first Catholic baptism in the Philippines. Under the National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, or […]
NCLA launches online journal of Ubod 2020
THE National Committee on Literary Arts (NCLA) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts has launched the online journal of Ubod 2020 featuring young writers from 11 regions in the country. Poems, stories and essays of 44 creative writers can be read by accessing https://ubod.ph. The Ubod 2020 online literary journal was assembled […]