Day: September 16, 2024

Manila: The House of Representatives (HOR) has tapped the Philippine National Police (PNP) in arresting former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque who has been considered a fugitive after being cited in contempt by the HOR. ‘All law enforcers who have received a copy of the contempt order, they can arrest Atty. Harry Roque if they see him. The PNP has been directed to assist the House Sergeant at Arms in finding Roque, ” PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said in a press briefing at Camp Crame, Quezon City on Monday. She said the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) has proceeded

Manila: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is poised to start its own Narcotics Detection Dog Breeding Program (NDDBP) to enable the agency to breed and train its own K-9 units. During Monday’s budget deliberations at the Senate, PDEA Director General Moro Virgilio Lazo said they proposed PHP8.790 million to fund the program next year. Out of the 156 narcotic detection dogs spread nationwide, PDEA has deployed 16 within the National Capital Region, particularly at airport terminals, Port of Manila, and the Manila International Container Port. Lazo said the dogs, which were trained for six months and procured from service

TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Tourism (DOT) is confident of attracting more tourists to Eastern Visayas through the launching of tour programs that will link islands in the Visayas. DOT-Eastern Visayas Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes said officials and tour operators from the three regions have been meeting to come up with a tourism program for the three regions as part of the ‘One Visayas’ initiative. ‘There have been exploratory meetings, and we have identified tour operators willing to do the costing as we come up with thematic tour programs for the three Visayas regions. This will be revealed

Manila: Senators unanimously approved on Monday Senate Bill No. 2568 or the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) Act, which seeks to enable senior high school and technical vocational school graduates to obtain college degrees through relevant work experience. In his manifestation, Senator Joel Villanueva said through ETEEAP work experience — whether formal, informal, and non-formal learning — will have an equivalent credit for an individual to acquire a bachelor’s degree or higher in a shorter period of time. “Sa panukalang ito, nais nating higitan pa ang 3,000 na graduates kada taon na nakakatapos sa programa (With this

Manila: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday it has processed more than half a million applications for voter reactivation. Citing its latest data, the poll body said it has received 556,231 applications for reactivation from Feb. 12 to Sept. 11. Of the number, 342,991 applicants have sought for their voter registration to be reactivated. There are 102,410 individuals applied for reactivation with correction of entries while 81,649 people applied for transfer with reactivation. A total of 29,181 applicants sought a transfer with reactivation and correction of entries. The number of reactivation applications is only 10 percent of the number