Day: September 24, 2024

Manila: The country’s economic managers are optimistic that inflation would further ease in 2025, projecting it to be 2.9 percent to 3.1 percent, Finance Secretary Ralph Recto said Tuesday. ‘We expect inflation to be 2.9 to 3.1 percent next year. So, even lower than this year,’ Recto said in a Palace press briefing. Recto also expressed confidence that inflation would decrease further to 2.5 percent in September this year. Despite external headwinds such as the Middle East crisis and oil price increases, Recto said the government is ‘on track’ to achieve its inflation target for September 2024. The country’s inflation

The United Nations on Monday criticized Israel for raiding Al Jazeera’s office in the occupied West Bank and ordering its closure for 45 days, saying the Israeli move is “limiting media coverage of what is going on in the region.” “We are extremely concerned about what we’ve seen. This is not the first time that Israeli authorities have shut down Al Jazeera,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters. Dujarric recalled that Israel previously carried out a similar action in Jerusalem, saying it “plays to a bigger picture of limiting media coverage of what is going on in the region, including

Manila: The Philippine National Police Anti Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) reported the arrest of a 32-year-old male suspect who threatened to spread explicit photos of a female co-worker in Camarines Sur. PNP-ACG director Maj. Gen. Ronnie Francis Cariaga said the suspect installed a hidden camera inside their office restroom. ‘According to the victim, the suspect contacted her on (messaging app) Telegram, claiming to have nude photos and videos of her. He sent a photo with the message, ‘Sorry, sana hindi ikaw ‘yan (I hope that’s not you),” Cariaga said in his report Tuesday. According to the victim, the suspect repeatedly harassed

Three patrol boats have been turned over in Southern Leyte to enhance fisheries law enforcement in Silago-Cabalian Bay. New patrol boats have been donated by the Canadian Embassy and non-government organizations WildAid and Rare to members of the Pacific Area Alliance of Local Governments for Marine Resources Development (PALMDev) in Southern Leyte. Officials witnessed the formal turnover of patrol boats on Sept. 23 in Hinundayan, Southern Leyte, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) reported on Tuesday. Members of this alliance are the towns of Silago, Hinunangan, Hinundayan, Anahawan, San Juan, Saint Bernard, San Ricardo, and Liloan in Southern

An incumbent village chief and his son were killed by gunmen riding in tandem in Barangay Lapting, San Juan, Ilocos Sur Monday night. Police identified the victims as Bello Joseph Padua Valorozo, 52, and his son, Jomar, 24, both residents of Barangay Caronoan, San Juan town. The San Juan Municipal Police Station reported that at around 7:10 p.m. on Monday, the victims were on board a Mitsubishi MV 100 van on their way home from a cockpit arena when they were shot by the still unidentified gunmen. The older Valorozo was rushed to the Suero General Hospital in Cabugao, where