Vice presidential bet Sara Duterte on Saturday said she will not participate in any debate leading to the May 9 elections. The presidential daughter said she will leave her fate to the electorate. “I have already decided that I will do this campaign without joining debates. Iniiwan ko na po ‘yan sa lahat ng ating kababayan ang pagdedesisyon sa pagpili nila sa vice president na ganito po ang aking direksyon sa kampanya (I leave it up to our fellow Filipinos to decide who they will pick as vice president with this direction of my campaign),” she said during a campaign

A total of 629,868 individuals representing 87.85 percent of the target population are fully inoculated since the start of the vaccination roll out in March 2021, the City Health Office reported Saturday. The Department of Health (DOH)-set target population to be vaccinated in this city is pegged at 716,960 individuals. The City Health Office data showed that most of the fully vaccinated individuals are front-line personnel in the essential sector belonging to the A4 priority group with 154,242. The rest of the fully vaccinated individuals are as follows: rest of the population (ROP), 116,581; indigents (A5), 109,772; rest of the

A 92-year-old woman was trapped and charred to death in a fire incident that gutted down two semi-concrete houses in Zamboanga del Sur on Friday. The Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Police Office confirmed Saturday that Severina Baco was killed in the fire that broke out around 3:30 p.m. in Purok Makiangayon, Barangay Blancia in Molave town. Her charred remains were recovered from the house of her 66-year-old son-in-law, Nelson Fuentes. “It is still under investigation,” said Senior Fire Office 1 Sherwin Yunting in a phone interview, also on Saturday The fire started at the residence of Fuentes and spread to

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Saturday clarified that its scholarships are continuous and that only a specific program was temporarily suspended due to lack of funds. “Medyo naguluhan ‘yong pagkakalabas ng balita. Ang hindi lang po napondahan o kulang ang pondo na scholarship ng CHED ay ‘yong merit scholarship na binibigay based on grades (There must have been some confusion with the news. The only CHED scholarship that lacks fund is the merit-based scholarship),” CHED chair Prospero de Vera III said in a Laging Handa briefing. The official clarified that there are numerous scholarships and programs sponsored by

President Rodrigo Duterte has praised the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) for its “selfless” commitment to weed out corruption in the bureaucracy. In a pre-recorded video message, Duterte thanked the PACC for fulfilling its mandate to stop irregularities in all state departments and offices. Duterte made the message in time for the PACC’s fourth-anniversary celebration. “My warmest greetings to the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission as you celebrate your fourth anniversary. I recognize your selfless service to the nation as you help eradicate graft and corruption in our bureaucracy,” he said during the holding of the PACC’s Recognition Day at the Palace del