Archives for December 2016
Mayor Sara optimistic Davao rehab center will help win war on drugs
Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte was thankful for the new drug rehabilitation center which will be built in Barangay Malagos starting next year. The P200 million 224-bed facility is expected to be completed before 2017 ends. It will offer services not only to drug dependents from Davao City but also to those who are […]
VP in Compostela Valley
Luzon to Mindanao bridge link understudy – Diokno
MANILA – The national government is studying possibility of building a bridge linking Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno is asking the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) to study the the possibility of building the bridge to link the three islands. President Rodrigo Duterte earlier made public his plan to link the islands […]
Cutoms specifies legal items for Balikbayan Boxes
What is personal and what is smuggled? To avoid complications in the declaration of items contained in a balikabyan box, the Bureau of Customs draw the line. In the twitter account of the agency, it listed the following items as nontaxable and its quantities. Among the tax-free items but of limited quantities include perfumes, lipsticks, […]
OFWs will not pay terminal fee by March 2017
PHILIPPINES – Starting march 2017, returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose tickets were purchased abroad will no longer have to pay terminal fees. Ed Monreal, General manager of Manila International Airport Authority on Monday, November 29, that airlines have “agreed in principle” to automatically relieved OFW’s from paying terminal fees. As it is now, every […]
Alsons Dev launches model unit in Alabel
Duterte invites Trump to Visit PH in 2017
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte invited US President-elect Donald Trump to come to the Philippines in 2017. The two leaders had a “very engaging, animated” phone conversation Friday night, December2 at around 10:30pm, Philippine time. It was Duterte who made the phone call. During the talk Trump also invited Duterte to visit […]
PH Literacy rate improved starting 2010
PHILIPPINES- The literacy rate in the country has improved from persons ages 10 years and above. The National Statistics Office (NSO) reported many Filipinos can now read and write in any language in the country compared to the previous years. The 2010, statistics show of the 71.5 million individuals who are 10 years old and […]
IN PICTURES: OFW Remittance Day
Buhay OFW-Hong Kong
Spectacular! That best describes the 4th Anniversary of FRAG, an organization of brotherhood among Overseas Filipino Workers in Hongkong on November 20, 2016. The vent took place inside a posh cruise ship which the OFW’s contributed to make the event meaningful. You could have mistaken them as professional entertainers and they showed the talents inside. […]
Bong Go: De Lima accusation ‘pure hearsay’
“It’s a pure hearsay” says Secretary Christopher Lawrence “bong” Go as he debunked claims by Senator Leila De Lima that he intervened to reinstate a police officer who is accused of killing Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa. Go, the Special Assistant to the President in a statement released to the media stressed “The allegations are […]
Landless, harassed, and facing death threats: Iloilo farmers seek urgent help from Ka Paeng
A group of farmers is urging Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Rafael Mariano to intervene in a land conflict in Iloilo and stop the illegal conversion of an agricultural landholding in the province before the situation worsens into violence and death due to stiff landlord resistance. “We appeal to you Ka Paeng to immediately […]