Day: November 1, 2024

Cebu: Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia on Friday said elderly citizens here will receive maintenance medication starting January 2025. In a barangay assembly in the coastal village of Tinago, Garcia said there are available funds for this program that will benefit over 90,000 seniors. “That’s why next year, I promise you that we have put in the budget that next year, January, we will start giving daily maintenance medicine,” the mayor said. “You will not buy those medicines anymore,” he vowed. According to Philippines News Agency, the mayor said the program came when many senior citizens asked about it when he

Davao: The Court of Tax Appeals reversed a 2019 ruling by the Digos, Davao del Sur Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 19 that allowed the provincial government’s PHP2.5 million franchise tax assessment on the National Transmission Corp. (TransCo). According to Philippines News Agency, in a decision dated Oct. 31, the CTA Second Division declared that “respondent’s (Davao del Sur) local franchise tax assessments (on TransCo) for the years 2002 to 2008 have no legal bases and as such, are void.” The court also noted that the RTC had effectively nullified the local franchise tax assessments issued by the province against

Manila: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. remembered his late father, former president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr., on Friday as the country commemorates All Saints’ Day. Marcos and his mother, Imelda Marcos, heard a Holy Mass beside the grave of his father at Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery) in Taguig City, joined by other family members and friends. Supporters wearing red also went to the cemetery to show their support. According to Philippines News Agency, after the Mass, Marcos delivered a short message where he thanked everyone who joined them in remembering his father. He said his father’s lessons remain

Cebu: Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia on Friday said elderly citizens here will receive maintenance medication starting January 2025. In a barangay assembly in the coastal village of Tinago, Garcia said there are available funds for this program that will benefit over 90,000 seniors. “That’s why next year, I promise you that we have put in the budget that next year, January, we will start giving daily maintenance medicine,” the mayor said. “You will not buy those medicines anymore,” he vowed. According to Philippines News Agency, the mayor said the program came when many senior citizens asked about it when he

Bulusan: Dee Jai, an artist hailing from Bicol, is using the power of art to help heal the trauma of survivors in the wake of Severe Tropical Storm Kristine, which devastated the region on October 22. The artist observed children engaging with their artworks, seemingly unaffected by the muddy conditions surrounding their makeshift art station in Bulusan, Libon town in Albay. According to Philippines News Agency, Jai’s attention was drawn to a child’s drawing of a colorful flower, a stark contrast to the prevalent themes of water and storm clouds in other artworks. The child explained that she drew the