Missing pages of PH history found on eBay, nearly sold for P44,000

Jane Bautista 12/01/2024

MANILA, Philippines — On Oct. 16, around 10 p.m., National Library of the Philippines (NLP) Director Cesar Gilbert Adriano received a text message from former National Historical Commission of the Philippines Chair Lisa Guerrero Nakpil: three missing…

More documents needed to travel abroad starting Sept. 3

Zacarian Sarao 08/24/2023

MANILA, Philippines — More documents will be needed by Filipinos traveling abroad to comply with new stricter travel regulations. The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) is set to implement its revised guidelines for the departure of Filipinos…

Cebu Citizens-Press Council to Cebu City gov’t: Cut costs, release documents online

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Citizen’s Press Council (CCPC) is encouraging the Cebu City government to upload documents online for the perusal of the public in order to cut costs in the reproduction of these documents.…

Mambaling fire victims’ concerns: Rebuilding homes, schooling for their kids

Zena V. Magto 06/01/2019

CEBU CITY, Phiippines — Jerrylyn Compuesto, 33, lived her whole life in her home in Sitio Puntod, Barangay Mambaling  Cebu City. And it only took two hours to lose her home to an afternoon fire on May…

Illegal withholding of seafarer’s travel documents

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 11/19/2018

Manning agencies and foreign principals and employers can be held criminally liable for illegally withholding seafarers’ travel documents. In many instances of non-deployment, many seafarers complain of withholding of travel documents like the passport and Seafarer’s Identification…

Magpale to present documents vs Gwen on Balili lot deal

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio 11/19/2018

Cebu Vice Governor Agnes Magale will present the necessary documents on the controversial Balili lot transaction entered into by Gwen Garcia years ago during a three-day hearing of the Sandiganbayan in Cebu next week. Magpale said that…

Trillanes: Documents prove I’m no longer a soldier

Inquirer.net 09/05/2018

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV showed Wednesday documents which he said will prove that he is no longer part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) since 2007. “These documents would prove that I am already separated…

COA tells Capitol: Support consultant’s fees with documents

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 07/21/2018

THE Commission on Audit (COA) has ordered the Cebu provincial government to support payments of consultants with approved consultancy progress reports, otherwise payments will be disallowed in audit. Based on COA’s annual audit report in 2017, the…

NBI to go after Dumpit’s contacts

Ador Mayol 06/28/2018

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is not done yet. Lawyer Rennan Oliva, NBI-Bohol chief, said they will go after the contacts of SPO1 Adonis Dumpit in the illegal drugs trade. Oliva, in an interview on Thursday,…

Bato okays release of drug-related documents to SC

Ador Vincent Mayol 04/05/2018

CEBU CITY–The Philippine National Police (PNP) is willing to submit the necessary documents requested by the Supreme Court (SC) in relation to the government’s war on drugs. But Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, outgoing PNP chief,…

Lapeña shortens processing time of documents at BOC to 5 days

Inquirer.net 10/25/2017

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) should only take five days to act on letters, requests and permits, the new memorandum of Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña has ordered. In line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to shorten processing…

MAO BA?

Editorial 04/10/2017

WITHDRAW NOW A PUBLIC official was talking to reporters when his assistant walked in and handed him the item he requested. The official told his assistant to get his ATM card from his wallet, remembering that it…

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