President Rodrigo Duterte has a suggestion to cut down on costs amid inflated oil prices brought about by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis: Take the train. Duterte said taking the Metro Rail Transit (MRT), Light Rail Transit (LRT), or bus would be a much cheaper option to getting around Metro Manila. “You better learn from our practice now to ride itong mga (these) MRT, LRT because that is — that would be the single functional move — to use to move people from one place to another, or from one point to another,” he said in his prerecorded Talk to the
The camp former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. thanked the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) under the wing of Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi for supporting his presidential bid less than two months to go before the May 9 elections. “We are glad the PDP-Laban has joined the bandwagon of support for the BBM-Sara UniTeam of major political parties in the country. It is truly reassuring, but at the same time challenging us to be even more prepared and vigilant in light of growing rumors of possible poll fraud in the coming elections,” lawyer Vic Rodriguez, Marcos’ spokesperson, said
The South Cotabato provincial government is now fast-tracking the opening of its dialysis center located inside the provincial hospital here. Dr. Conrado Braña, chief of the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital (SCPH), said in a statement on Tuesday they have completed all the necessary requirements, including the staff who will be assigned to the facility. Braña said due to the demand of the profession, finding a dialysis technologist required by the Technology Society of the Philippines to head the dialysis center was a challenge for them. “A technologist in South Cotabato can only hold a maximum of three dialysis centers, two
With the surrender of the face of the controversial UCCP-Haran “bakwit” (evacuee) group recently, a former rebel leader said the New People’s Army’s (NPA) “urban parliamentary struggle” is heading for collapse. In an interview, Ariane Jane Ramos, former secretary of the NPA Guerrilla Front (GF) 55, Sub-Regional Committee 5 (SRC)-Southern Mindanao Regional Command (SMRC), said the surrender of Jong Monzon has caused a massive blow to the “bakwit” school. Monzon is the former secretary-general of the “Pasakaday Salugpongan Kalimodan” (PASAKA), the Indigenous People’s group behind the “bakwit” controversy that the military said was a front for the Communist Party of
Aggressive inoculation of eligible population and compliance with the minimum health standards protect the Central Visayas region from surges driven by coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) variants and sub-variants, a health official said on Tuesday. Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, Department of Health (DOH)-Region 7 chief pathologist, said in a presser at the Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) that local government units’ (LGU) efforts to inoculate their constituents have paid back. She noted a slowdown in Covid-19 cases despite the reported presence of “Delmicron”, a combination of the Covid-19 variants Delta and Omicron, as well as the BA.2 or the sub-variant of
Ilocos Norte’s first veterinary school is expected to open this coming school year at the state-run Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac City campus. MMSU President Shirley Agrupis confirmed this on Tuesday as she announced “this is in response to the country’s need for veterinarians due to emerging and re-emerging animal diseases, and to the very small number of licensed veterinarians in the province.” Starting the first semester of the academic year 2022-2023, Agrupis said the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, a six-year professional course involved in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and control of animal diseases of terrestrial and aquatic
