The Department of Education (DepEd), one of the government agencies actively involved in the May 2010 elections, conducted a voter’s education forum for employees to better appreciate election automation. DepEd has allotted time to conduct this activity to familiarize its employees on how the new system of conducting the electoral process [...]
Last Updated: 10 March 2010 8:48 AM
The Department of Foreign Affairs advises Filipinos to postpone all non-essential travel to Thailand as militant groups there plan to stage anti-government rallies, particularly in the capital city of Bangkok, beginning Friday. Those already in Thailand are advised to avoid areas that have been identified as meeting and staging areas for the rallyists, the DFA said. “In [...]
Last Updated: 10 March 2010 8:40 AM
A fire, believed caused by faulty electric wiring, gutted the bed factory of the Philippine Bed & Furniture Manufacturing Corp. (PhilBed) in Barangay Balong Bato, Novaliches, Quezon City on Tuesday afternoon. The fire that started at about 11 a.m. destroyed about P2-million worth of properties owned by the company. The Bureau [...]
Last Updated: 10 March 2010 8:35 AM
A military counter-terrorism expert welcomed the reported death of Dulmatin, a Jemaah Islamiyah bomb expert who, reports said, was slain by Indonesian authorities following a raid in Pamulang in South Tangerang. “Its good if they killed him…It is good if they got him,” said Marine commandant Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban, who [...]
Last Updated: 10 March 2010 8:30 AM
Operatives of the Manila Police District (MPD) arrested during a buy-bust operation on two suspected drug traffickers for allegedly selling P5-million worth of high-grade cocaine. Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim and Supt. Ernesto Tendero, chief of the Manila Police District (MPD)-Station 2, identified the suspects as Jolly Sorinao, 36, married, of 16 Casoy , Zone 1 [...]
Last Updated: 10 March 2010 8:26 AM
DUMAGUETE CITY – A 14-year old boy has filed charges of kidnapping/serious illegal detention, grave coercion, and violation of R.A. 7610 (Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act) against Negros Oriental Vice Gov. Jose Baldado, a certain Romeo Sablada and a “John Doe”, before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office. The boy, accompanied by his [...]
Last Updated: 10 March 2010 8:22 AM
A Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge has ordered the abolition of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) after it ruled that its creation was illegal and unconstitutional. Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr. of the Manila RTC Branch 26, declared as illegal and unconstitutional Executive Order No. 624, which created the PASG. [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 5:14 PM
The Department of Health (DOH) warned the public against heat stroke and summer diseases as high temperatures continue to scorch the entire country. Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral said that hotter days are ahead according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) as the summer season officially starts and the El Niño phenomenon brings [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 5:08 PM
One of the legacies of the Arroyo administration when she steps down this June would be the automated process of the May 10, 2010 national and local elections. RA 8436 or the Election Automation Act of 1997 was passed to give the Commission on Elections (Comelec) authority to use automated election system for vote counting and [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:33 AM
Ousted Bulacan Governor Joselito “Jon-jon” Mendoza filed a petition before the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday, asking for a review of the “queer” rulings of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division which also unseated Isabela Governor Grace Padaca and Pampanga Governor Eddie Panlilio. In a 16-page supplemental petition, Mendoza, through his lawyer Sixto Brillantes, said [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:29 AM
President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo announced today the appointment of Philippine Army chief Lt. Gen. Delfin N. Bangit as incoming chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, vice Gen. Victor Ibrado, who is retiring on Wednesday, his 56th birthday. The President will preside over the turnover of the AFP command in Camp Aguinaldo on [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:24 AM
The weather bureau said extremely high temperature poses threat of heatstroke, or worse, heatwave in the coming days as scorching season is just starting to gain momentum, and will further cause impact in the coming months. Nathaniel Cruz, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) deputy director for operations and services, said that a weather [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:22 AM
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Monday announced that Presidential Assistant for Education Mona Valisno will be the new Department of Education (DepEd) chief. President Arroyo made the announcement during her visit to the San Sebastian College (SSC) in C. M. Recto, Manila. Mrs. Arroyo announced that Valisno will replace Secretary Jesli Lapus who was transferred to the Department of [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:19 AM
There were no Filipino casualties in the earthquake of 6.0 magnitude that hit the eastern Turkish province of Elazig at dawn on Monday, initial reports of the Philippine embassy in Ankara to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) indicated. Elazig is southeast of the Turkish capital of Ankara. Several aftershocks of lower magnitude were reported in the [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:15 AM
A Quezon City Regional Trial Court (QCRTC) judge handling the rebellion case against several members of the influential Ampatuan clan of Maguindanao said that he is ready to rule on the motion of the prosecution seeking his inhibition from the case. In a one-page order, dated March 5, 2010, QCRTC Branch 77 Judge Vivencio Baclig said [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:13 AM
DUMAGUETE CITY – Three weeks have already passed since the celebrated alleged kidnapping of a minor in Manjuyod, Negros Oriental where the provincial vice-governor had been implicated, but police investigators still do not have enough evidence to warrant the filing of formal charges in court against the suspects. Provincial police director Sr. Supt. Augusto Marquez, Jr. [...]
Last Updated: 09 March 2010 8:10 AM
Teachers who are serving as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) in the May 10, 2010 polls will be receiving a total of P4,300 as allowance and basic honoraria, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Based on a resolution promulgated by the poll body last week, the teachers will be getting P1,300 each [...]
Last Updated: 08 March 2010 8:22 AM
Former Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo cited the reforms that have been initiated at the Bureau of Immigration (BI) even as she exhorted its new immigration officers to guard and maintain the agency’s new reputation as being one of the most efficient agencies in government. Domingo, now general manager of the Philippine Estates Authority (PEA), said she [...]
Last Updated: 08 March 2010 8:19 AM
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