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BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) has reiterated its call for sustained heightened alert as Tropical Storm Kristine slightly accelerated.:The Cordillera Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) has reiterated its call for sustained heightened alert as Tropical Storm Kristine slightly accelerated. ‘All concerned are advised to be on heightened alert, sustain monitoring activities, and submit preparedness actions and situational reports to the Cordillera (Regional) DRRMC,’ CDRRMC chairman and Office of Civil Defense – Cordillera Director Albert Mogol said in Memorandum 131-2024 released by noon on Wednesday. As of the 11 a.m. bulletin of

MANILA: Local shares declined on Wednesday as investors took a cautious stance. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) declined by 0.61 percent to 7,367.66, while All Shares fell by 0.85 percent to 4,050.76. “The local market pulled back this Wednesday by 0.61% to 7,367.66. Investors took a cautious stance as the local market remains without a fresh positive catalyst,” said Philstock Financials, Inc. research manager Japhet Tantiangco. The miners led the sectors in Wednesday’s trading, adding 0.43 percent. The services lost the most, shedding 1.92 percent. Decliners edged advancers 128 to 71. The peso-dollar trading, meanwhile, was suspended on Wednesday.

LEGAZPI CITY – The Office of Civil Defense in Bicol (OCD 5) reported on Wednesday that two persons died while five fishermen are missing in the region due to Tropical Storm Kristine (international name: Trami). In a phone interview, Gremil Alexis Naz, OCD-Bicol spokesperson, said the victims are a 22-year-old male from Palanas town, Masbate province, “who had a respiratory arrest secondary to cervical cord injury secondary to trauma by falling off a branch of a tree,” and a 71-year-old male from Bagamanoc town, Catanduanes province, “who fell from the house.” Naz said coordination was also conducted with the Provincial

Manila: The Philippine National Police (PNP) has discovered in its investigations that Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Apollo Quiboloy was trying to emulate the biblical story of King Solomon who had 700 wives and 300 concubines, a police official said on Wednesday. During the resumption of the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality’s probe on alleged abuses within the KOJC, Davao City Police Office Director Col. Hansel Marantan said this was based on the narrative of Quiboloy’s former inner pastorals who listened to his preaching. “Believed to have victimized 200 women already, currently, PNP identified

Manila: The funds that Sulu will get for 2025 are still included in the proposed budget earmarked for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said Wednesday. ‘The Bangsamoro government is also working on their budget now. At napag-usapan po (And we discussed) during our IGRB (Intergovernmental Relations Body) meeting that the funding for 2025 for Sulu will still be part of their budget,’ she said during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay. Pangandaman said the national and BARMM governments had agreed to continue providing a budget to Sulu until the Supreme Court (SC) makes a