Scale down Christmas parties, DepEd tells schools, offices

Stephanie Sevillano 11/20/2024

MANILA – The Department of Education (DepEd) has directed all its offices and schools to do away with grand celebrations of Christmas parties in the aftermath of the successive typhoons that battered parts of Luzon. This complies with…

Marijuana to be downgraded in dangerous drugs list? PDEA, DBB open to idea

Charie Abarca 11/20/2024

MANILA, Philippines — The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) are open to downgrading marijuana by one level from the list of the world’s most dangerous drugs, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa…

No surplus of sugar in PH

Jordeene B. Lagare 11/20/2024

The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) of the Department of Agriculture denies claims that the country has a surplus of sugar that some groups said has resulted in declining prices. “Sugar stock levels have been constant in the…

Internal glitch, not hackers, behind GCash unauthorized deductions

Charie Abarca 11/20/2024

MANILA, Philippines — The unauthorized deduction on balances of some GCash users in early November was triggered by an internal glitch and not by hackers. This was according to Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian who was speaking on behalf…

Smuggling of spiderlings concealed in air parcel foiled

Ferdinand Patinio 11/20/2024

MANILA – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Port of Clark has foiled the smuggling of 178 spiderlings hidden in an air parcel and declared as “hairclips” from Indonesia. In a statement on Tuesday, acting District Collector Jairus…

Security guards can wear hats, not entire Santa costume – PNP

Philippine News Agency 11/19/2024

MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday reminded security agencies and establishments to do away with the practice of making security guards wear Christmas costumes that may deviate from their prescribed uniform. “May prescribed uniform naman…

Palace to gov’t agencies: Nix grand Christmas parties

Philippine News Agency 11/19/2024

MANILA – Malacañang on Tuesday advised government agencies and offices to avoid holding grand or lavish Christmas parties to show solidarity to those affected by the successive typhoons that ravaged parts of the country in less than a…

‘Mary Grace Piattos’: House lawmakers offer P1M reward for information

Gabriel Pabico Lalu 11/19/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have raised a P1-million reward for anyone who can tell the whereabouts of a certain Mary Grace Piattos, whose name appears in acknowledgment receipts made by Vice President…

Peso could drop to 59; BSP plans intervention

Philippine Daily Inquirer 11/19/2024

A peso depreciation to record-low 59:$1 “looks likely” as the currency continued to be overpowered by a rallying dollar, although a deeper fall beyond that level is unlikely as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) stands ready…

Aspiring vice mayor in South Cotabato killed inside family-owned carinderia

Edwin O. Fernandez 11/18/2024

KORONADAL CITY — An aspirant for vice mayor in South Cotabato was killed Monday morning by unidentified gunmen in his residence in Tantangan town, police said. Jose “Bobot” Osorio, 58, former village chair of Barangay Bukay Pait, who is…

SONA 2023: Cebu officials, allies laud Marcos Jr. admin’s efforts in revitalizing economy

Futch Anthony Inso, Mary Rose Sagarino, Morexette Marie B. Erram, Wenilyn Sabalo 07/24/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – As far as some local officials and allies in Cebu are concerned, President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (PBBM) has accomplished a lot in terms of revitalizing the country’s economy. During President Marcos Jr.’s…

FDA issues warning vs several types of lato-lato

Morexette Marie B. Erram 06/18/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has issued a warning on buying some variants of the popular yoyo-like clackers called ‘lato-lato’.   The FDA has issued three separate memorandums on June 13, urging…

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