The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday clarified that the death toll in the crash of the C-130 cargo plane in Patikul, Sulu last July 4 stands at 49. In a statement, AFP chief, Gen. Cirilito Sobejana said this corrects previous reports of 50 military fatalities in the incident, citing that there had been a case of “double count”. “This is a very hard task since the cadavers were beyond recognition but we have experts supporting our efforts. We are doing our best to expedite the identification and the ongoing investigation without compromising its credibility,” Sobejana said. He,
The Filipino community in the United States should remain vigilant amid activities of some organizations a group claimed were allegedly fronting for the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the terrorist New People’s Army (NPA). During a protest in front of the Philippine Consulate General in New York last July 5, a newly formed group called the Filipino-Americans Against Crime and Terrorism (FACT) raised concerns about what it said was the “expanding CPP-NPA presence in the US”. “We are here this afternoon to voice our concern over the growing presence of the CPP-NPA in the US
In a statement on Wednesday, Mayor Evelio Leonardia said he signed a memorandum of understanding with SHFC, represented by its staff Kara Cuarom, in rites at the Government Center on June 29. “The signing marks the realization of the project for the 320 beneficiaries,” he added. To be developed under the agency’s Community Mortgage Program (CMP), the project will benefit the city government personnel who formed an association registered as the Bacolod City Government Employees Homeowners Association Inc. with the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development-Western Visayas. Under the CMP, which is a people-led housing finance and community development
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved Proclamation 1179 declaring the Philippines’ official population count at over 109 million in 2020. The Philippines had a total population of 109,035,343, as of May 1, 2020, according to the latest presidential proclamation inked on Tuesday, The population count was based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in September 2020. The latest figure was higher than the 2015 population, which stood at 100,981,437. Last year’s population count was up by 8,053,906 from the population count recorded in 2015. Duterte, under Proclamation 1179, declared as “official for
OCEA, a shipbuilding firm in northwest France, has expressed its intent to build a PHP1.5-billion shipyard in the country. In a statement Wednesday, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said OCEA is just one of the investment interests from France that the country has cornered during the 9th Philippine-France Joint Economic Committee (JEC) meeting last July 2. OCEA’s shipyard here is expected to create up to 600 jobs. During the high-level economic dialogue, French Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness Franck Riester also presented three letters of intent confirming financial support for the upcoming projects of the Department
President Rodrigo Duterte has told Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo to take action on former senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s latest plunder allegations against him. Unfazed by the fresh corruption claim hurled against him, Duterte said Trillanes was just “all talk.” “I leave Trillanes to you. Ikaw na ang bahala sa kaniya kung anuhin mo. Daldal nang daldal iyan, hindi naman lumaban ng debate ‘yan (It’s up to you what you want to do with him. He’s all talk but could not even fight in a debate),” he told Panelo in a pre-recorded public address aired early Wednesday. Duterte made
