The Department of Education (DepEd) renewed on Thursday its commitment to provide a “safe and nurturing” environment for teachers and learners after a teacher and her husband were reported to be casualties of an ambush in Banisilan, Cotabato Province…
Day: November 24, 2023
OGPinas bats for heightened gov’t transparency
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM), together with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), led here Friday the last leg for OGPinas!, an open government national advocacy campa…
Nearly P1-M worth of marijuana seized in Bulacan
Nearly PHP1 million worth of marijuana were seized in separate anti-drug operations in this province on Friday.
In his report, Colonel Relly Arnedo, Bulacan Police Provincial Office director, said the successful operations that were launched in this…
Sandiganbayan acquits ex-MisOr guv, execs in graft raps
The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Misamis Oriental governor Oscar Moreno and other former provincial capitol officials on 11 cases of graft and corrupt practices.
The decision, released on Friday, also ordered the hold departure order of the re…
House reso urging Marcos admin to cooperate with ICC ‘not a priority’
House of Representatives Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe said Friday that House Resolution 1477 urging the Marcos administration to collaborate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) probe against former president Rodrigo R. Duterte’s war on …
DA-Calabarzon allots P1.3-B for farm-to-market roads in 2024
The Department of Agriculture-Calabarzon (DA-4A) announced the impending implementation of 80 farm-to-market road development projects (FMRDP) in 2024, with a combined cost of almost PHP1.3 billion.
Romelo Reyes, chief of DA-4A’s Regional Agricultur…
CA grants De Lima’s petition, remands suit vs. Aguirre to Ombudsman
The Court of Appeals (CA) granted a petition questioning the Ombudsman’s dismissal of the complaint against former justice secretaries Vitaliano Aguirre and Menardo Guevarra for admitting state witnesses who were already convicted criminals.
In its …
2 kidnapped Filipinos in Gaza may not be in 1st batch to be released
Two missing Filipinos, suspected among those kidnapped in Israel on Oct. 7, may not be among the first batch of hostages in Gaza that will be released by Hamas terrorists starting Friday.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo Jose De Vega said that…
Congress OKs conversion of 2 NoCot schools into state U, college
Two schools in the province are set to be converted into state-run tertiary institutions after their proposed bills passed the third and final reading in Congress on Thursday.
In a statement on Friday, North Cotabato 2nd District Rep. Rudy Caoagdan,…