Children are among the top priorities of the city government, Mayor Sara Z. Duterte said, citing various welfare, health, and educational programs that made the city as one of the child-friendly local government units in the country. During her Valedictory and State of the City Address (SOCA) Thursday afternoon, Duterte said the city government was able to respond to the needs of the children by establishing the Quick Response Team for Children’s Concerns. She said the team conducts rescue operations, investigation, and documentation of cases of abuse and sexual exploitation of children. Likewise, the mayor said the local government unit
Bataan – Loren Legarda, who is seeking a Senate comeback, favors the conversion of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong town in this province into a cloud computing facility. In her visit together with Uniteam candidates here Thursday, Legarda agreed with the suggestion of Governor Albert Garcia on the cloud computing facility. The senatorial candidate said that as the principal author of the Innovation Act passed before the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, she believes that cloud computing, cloud storage, and the like “”is the way of today and the future”. Cloud computing is an application-based software
Former Philippine Army (PA) chief and now Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año urged the force to intensify its modernization efforts to be at par with emerging warfare techniques. “Being the last line of defense in territorial defense following the Air Force and Navy, our Army must likewise beef up its modernization program. We need to be abreast with emerging systems, technology and hardware to keep up with modern warfare techniques,” Año said in his speech at the closing of the two-day PA’s Senior Leaders Conference (SLC) at the PA headquarters in Fort Bonifacio on
A New People’s Army (NPA) guerrilla has surrendered to government authorities on March 17, bringing to six the total of NPA surrenderers this month alone in Zamboanga del Sur. Col. Diomarie Albarico, Zamboanga del Sur police director, identified Friday the latest NPA surrenderer as Romeo Macalisang Jr. alias Ka Dodo, 42, of Barangay Gumahan, Josefina. Albarico said Macalisang gave himself up around 10 a.m. Thursday at the Josefina municipal police station, accompanied by policemen, soldiers, and personnel of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA). Macalisang is the designated information officer of the Regional Urban Committee (RUC) of the NPA’s Western
Key officials in Leyte province will support the presidential bid of former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Governor Leopoldo Dominico Petilla said on Thursday night. “He is from Leyte and if he wins, he will always put Leyte as one of his priorities. It is good if we are united for the improvement of Leyte,” Petilla said. Talking to reporters, the governor said the majority of mayors in the province and his brother, Jericho, a gubernatorial candidate, have agreed on a consensus to support Marcos. The Petillas picked Marcos despite rift with the Romualdezes in the past. Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez
The government’s campaign to reunite communist rebels with their families and the mainstream society continues to gain ground as 11 New Peoples’ Army rebels have surrendered in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat. Kalamansig Mayor Rolando Garcia welcomed the former rebels on Friday during the surrender rites, providing them initially with livelihood assistance and a sack of rice. “We welcome them as the government is doing everything for their reintegration into mainstream society,” Garcia said in a media statement. “They made the right decision to surrender because an armed struggle has been proven ineffective,” he added. Garcia also asked the surrenderers to convince
