MANILA: President R. Marcos Jr. has issued a challenge to the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) for better performance among Filipino athletes come the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. POC president Bambol Tolentino said on Thursday that Marcos wants the Philippine team to exceed its historic four-medal haul in Tokyo in 2021 highlighted by Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo’s gold medal in weightlifting. “The President wants more medals in Paris,” Tolentino said following the POC’s year-end general assembly at the East Ocean Seafood Restaurant in Parañaque. “I just told the President that we delivered a lot of Olympic medals during the
MANILA: San Miguel escaped from a late surge from Meralco for a 113-108 win in their PBA Commissioner’s Cup battle on Friday at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig. While the game had no more significance about their chances of making the quarterfinals, the Beermen somehow got a morale-boosting victory against the also-ran Bolts ahead of their best-of-three showdown against the Converge FiberXers. “You definitely want to win the game the way we had,” said Devon Scott, who put up 32 points on 11-for-15 field goals, 12 rebounds, two assists, and one steal for SMB. “I think we
BAGUIO CITY: The Department of Health in the Cordillera Administrative Region (DOH-CAR) on Friday encouraged the public, especially individuals with “risky sexual behavior” to avail of the free Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) screening following the increases of HIV cases in the region. DOH-CAR regional director Dr. Rio Magpantay made the call during this city’s commemoration of World AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) day. The director said that they are drumming up free screening not to discriminate against any person, but as means of protection, especially with HIV cases ballooning to 883 as of September 30, 2022, in the
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Authorities have arrested two most wanted persons and a crime group member in separate law enforcement operations in the region, police officials said Friday. Police identified the arrested persons as Francis Chavez, 29; Donjie Medina, 27; and, Morsed Dumatu, 35. Brig. Gen. Neil Alinsañgan, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director, said Chavez was arrested around 10:30 p.m. Thursday at Barangay Balagon in Siay town, Zamboanga Sibugay province. Chavez, the fourth most wanted person in Siay, has pending warrant of arrest for the crime of abduction with rape with no recommended bail. Meanwhile, Medina, a
MANILA: At least 99 farmers in Batangas province are now legitimate landowners after the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) distributed their electronic land titles (e-titles) and certificates of land ownership award (CLOAs) on Friday. Editha Dastas, 66, of Barangay Patugo, Balayan town, vowed to take care of the land and fulfill her duties as landowner after she was awarded with e-title. The land awarded to Dastas was part of the 98.7453 hectares distributed among the 99 beneficiaries, according to lawyer Kazel Celeste, DAR Undersecretary for Field Operations Office. Twenty agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) received their CLOAs under
MANILA: A lawmaker on Friday called for the immediate passage of a measure that would grant persons with disabilities (PWDs) a 20-percent fixed discount on toll fees of skyways and expressways. Quezon City Representative Marvin Rillo made the call on the eve of International Day of Persons with Disabilities to promote the rights and welfare of individuals with long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments. Rillo said House Bill 5275 proposes to give PWDs a 20-percent discount on toll road fees that are paid through radio frequency identification (RFID) or similar systems. He said this is in
