Day: October 14, 2024

MANILA: Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Monday said he is ready to clarify his role in former president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on illegal drugs. Dela Rosa made the statement in response to Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Rommel Marbil’s call on his predecessors to clarify their involvement in the campaign. “That is totally fine with me,” dela Rosa said in a Viber message to reporters. “He is the current Chief PNP. He can initiate his own fact-finding effort since the PNP has been at the receiving end in the issue at hand,” he added. Marbil made the call after

Residents of Barangay Buenavista here are now benefiting from a water project initiated by the Ako Bicol Party-list. Barangay Captain Rogelio Leron said that over 367 households, or 1,600 individuals, have been able to access clean water from the facility. “This has greatly improved the daily lives of the residents, as they now have easy access to water for cooking, laundry, bathing, and other daily activities,” Leron said in Filipino in an interview on Monday. Shienalyn Navarro, a 33-year-old mother of four, expressed her gratitude for the project, saying it has saved her time and effort, especially as a vendor

MANILA: Motorists will see big-time price hikes in petroleum products effective Tuesday. In separate advisories on Monday, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Petro Gazz, Seaoil, and Shell announced a hike in gasoline prices by PHP2.65 per liter and PHP2.70 per liter for diesel. Kerosene prices will also increase by PHP2.60 per liter. The price adjustment will start as early as 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Other oil firms are expected to follow suit. This will be the fourth straight week of oil price increases since Sept. 16. Global oil prices have been on the rise as the crisis in the Middle East intensifies. The Philippine

MANILA: Jan Patrick Baito’s free kick helped University of Santo Tomas to a 1-0 victory over Adamson University in the UAAP Season 87 men’s football tournament at the UP Diliman football field Sunday night. Iloilo City-born Baito made the free kick in the 67th minute after Adamson’s Mark Christian Ricario committed a foul. ‘I just did what the coaches said, that we need to score goals to boost our confidence in the remaining minutes of the game,” Baito, a Physical Education student, said. ‘I am thankful to coach (Marjo Allado) because he gave me the confidence to take that free

Manila: The leadership of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), together with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), on Monday assured the Senate Committee on Finance that it will be able to regularize around 4,000 to 5,000 contractual employees before the end of the year. DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian told the panel that those to be regularized are all serving under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). “Meron pa kaming (We still have) submissions, yung mga (those) other social workers in the entire department that are not 4Ps,” he said. In the previous budget hearing, Senator Raffy