Ukrainian officials said Friday that rescue workers continue to search for survivors in the rubble of a theater in the besieged city of Mariupol after Russian forces reportedly hit the building where residents were seeking shelter. More than 1,000 people, including women and children, were hiding in the building during the bomb attack Wednesday, the Mariupol City Council said on Telegram. “In the rare moments of relative calm, rescuers quickly approached the site of the destroyed theater and rescued Mariupol residents who were trapped,” it said. “According to preliminary information, there is no confirmed information on casualties, yet. But a
Vice Presidential aspirant Sara Duterte on Friday had a short break from her hectic campaigning in the National Capital Region to visit Cebu and personally thank the country’s most vote-rich province’s endorsement. Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia, together with the local town leaders under the One Cebu Party, publicly made their reaffirmation of long-standing support to Duterte last February 16. Cebu Province has more than three million registered voters, the most number of voters in the country. Duterte met with Governor Garcia to personally thank her for the endorsement. She also met with town mayor Christina Garcia-Frasco who led the inauguration
The state-run Mariano Marcos State University College of Medicine (MMSU-COM) has achieved another 100-percent passing rate in the Physician Licensure Examination (PLE), the university’s strategic communication office said on Saturday. For the fourth consecutive time since the Ilocos Norte’s first medical school was established on June 16, 2015, its medical graduates delivered a 100-percent passing rate in the March 2022 exam, said MMSU president Dr. Shirley Agrupis on Saturday, as she lauded the 11 new doctors produced by the university. “This feat is another feather in the cap of the university,” Agrupis said, adding that maintaining the same performance in
Three sexagenarians died while scores were injured when a cargo truck and a van collided along the national highway in Jimalalud, Negros Oriental close to midnight Friday. A report from the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office on Saturday said the cargo truck, driven by Marcos Alberastinni, 40, of Guihulngan City, bumped the white van driven by Jony Gacang Larano, a 33-year-old resident of Bacolod City. The van was then traveling northbound from the opposite direction with 25 passengers, mostly relatives. Larano and 17 of his passengers were taken to the Governor William Billy Villegas Memorial Hospital in nearby Guihulngan City
With its relentless and exemplary drive against the illegal drugs trade and for being one of the country’s top performers in complementing the national government’s intensified anti-illegal drug campaign, the provincial government here was a “Gold” awardee anew at the National Anti-Drug Abuse Council’s 2020-2021 Davao Region Anti-Drug Abuse Council Performance Awards. Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Council (PADAC) action officer, Ronald Vidoy, representing Governor Nelson Dayanghirang, received the plaque of recognition from Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) XI Assistant Regional Director, Abdullah Matalam, and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) XI Regional Director, Aileen Lovitos, at the Acacia Hotel
