Day: October 3, 2024

BACOLOD CITY – The City of Sagay in Negros Occidental has coordinated with concerned national government agencies in taking steps to hold City Treasurer Juvy Pinongan accountable for the alleged missing PHP7.3 million Health Emergency Allowance (HEA) funds. As of Thursday, the city government has been awaiting representatives of the Commission on Audit (COA) to arrive and witness the opening of the City Treasurer’s Office vault as part of the audit procedure after it has already been sealed and secured. In a statement, Mayor Narciso Javelosa Jr. said they are taking ‘decisive action to investigate the missing HEA funds.’ ‘We

BACOLOD CITY – A provincial government-funded PHP7.9 million solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) is providing an eco-friendly alternative for water management to a farmers’ cooperative in Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City in southern Negros Occidental. The Tara Agrarian Reform Cooperative (TARC), which has more than a hundred members, will manage the project that can serve up to 24 hectares of agricultural area with a total power of 57 kilowatts. ‘We express our gratitude to the farmers for their partnership in advancing the province’s food security and agricultural productivity agenda. I urge them to take diligent care of the project and manage it

Manila: The Supreme Court on Thursday said it has upheld the finding of probable cause and reinstated the arrest warrant and hold departure order against Dalia Guerrero Pastor as a co-conspirator in the killing of her husband, award-winning racer car driver Ferdinand ‘Enzo’ Pastor. In a decision written by Associate Justice Amy C. Lazaro-Javier, the Supreme Court’s Second Division reversed the ruling of the Court of Appeals (CA) which had dismissed the criminal case for parricide against Dalia, who remains at large. Records showed that In 2014, Enzo was driving a truck to Clark, Pampanga, together with his mechanic, Paolo

Manila: The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on Thursday got a commitment from Senator Loren Legarda for its proposed 2025 budget to be increased. This, after Legarda found some of the programs of the agency interesting, particularly the Barangay Information Officers Network of the Philippine Information Agency. “We suspend the briefing but we consider the budget as approved subject to an increase after my study. I will not decrease you,” Legarda said before concluding PCO’s budget deliberation. “If you give me good proposals then I can always increase your budget,” she said. Under the 2025 National Expenditure Program (NEP), the PCO,

Manila: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Thursday pledged that the current administration would make sure that the ‘Lab for All’ Project, which offers free medical services to Filipinos in need, will reach the 7,063 geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDAs) in the country. During the Lab for All caravan at the Rizal High School in Pasig City, Marcos said the project, spearheaded by no less than First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos, aims to bridge the gap in the country’s health care system. ‘Ang kalusugan po ay kayamanan. Walang silbi ang lahat ng yaman kung hindi maayos ang ating kalusugan. Ngunit