CIDG gets new chief in latest PNP reshuffle
May 2, 2024
ANKARA: Lionel Messi’s FIFA World Cup victory photo has received the most likes of any image posted by an athlete on Instagram. Messi’s post, titled “CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!,” got over 49.8 million likes on the social media platform since it was posted on Sunday. In the photo, Messi is raising the World Cup trophy, celebrating Argentina’s glorious win over then-defending champions France. It beat Cristiano Ronaldo’s post of the Portugal forward and Messi were playing chess, which tallied about 42 million likes on Instagram, the previous record. Ronaldo, who also featured in Qatar 2022, posted
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Monday that he would convene a ”Climate Ambition Summit” in September 2023, saying ”it will be a no-nonsense summit. No exceptions. No compromises.” Speaking at his year-end news conference, he warned that the world is still moving in the wrong direction to fight climate change. ”The 1.5-degree goal is gasping for breath. National climate plans are falling woefully short,” he said, referring to the goal of limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F). Guterres said he would keep pushing for a climate solidarity pact in which all big emitters make
LEGAZPI CITY: The Bicol Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (BRDRRMC) and Office of Civil Defense (OCD) have maintained the red alert status in the entire region as the number of families being evacuated due to the prevailing bad weather continues to increase. Gremil Alexis Naz, OCD-Bicol spokesperson, in an interview said as of 9 a.m. Tuesday, around 600 individuals were inside evacuation centers in the provinces of Albay, Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur. On Monday, around 129 families or 423 people were brought to the temporary shelters. “Heavy rains brought by the northeast monsoon and shear
MANILA: Operatives of the Northern Police District (NPD) seized counterfeit power tools worth PHP5.7 million in Navotas City, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said Tuesday. Citing the report of the NPD, NCRPO chief Maj. Gen. Jonnel Estomo said a search warrant operation was conducted on Monday against Credibility Logistics Co. Ltd located at Simeon De Jesus St., San Rafael Village, Navotas City. This came after the NPD District Special Operations Unit (DSOU) received information that a certain business establishment under the name of Hong Xiao Bao, also known as “Ben Ong, Ben Ang and Haotao Hong,”
BUTUAN CITY: Fifty employees of a mining firm in Dinagat Islands province are now benefiting from a fish farming project provided through a partnership with a nickel mining company and two government agencies. Lorenzo Cuares Jr., chairperson of the Valencia Regular-Seasonal Workers Association (VARSWA), said they collaborated with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in 2021 to start a fish farming project to cope with the effects of the pandemic. “We were able to access farm inputs from the DOLE while the BFAR provided us with the necessary
TACLOBAN CITY: The shear line affecting the eastern section of Southern Luzon may trigger flooding in major rivers in the Eastern Visayas region, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has warned. In an advisory issued Tuesday, PAGASA identified several rivers in six provinces that would likely be affected by the downpour — Sangputan, Palo, Solano, Daguitan, Marabong, Cadacan, Bongquirogon, Salug, Pagbanagaran, Pagsangahan, and Binahaan in Leyte; and Catarman, Bugko, Pambujan, Catubig, Palapag, Mano, and Gamay in Northern Samar. Other rivers include Oras, Dolores, Ulot, Taft, Borongan, Suribao, Llorente, Balangiga, and Sulat in Eastern Samar; Basey,
