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VP Leni goes on quarantine
By Fernan Angeles Vice President Leni Robredo is on quarantine after being exposed to a COVID-19 positive last week. In her regular radio program, VP Leni said that her office and ground staff members have also gone under isolation following the close contact. “Na-expose ako noong Huwebes. Na-expose ako sa isang nag-positive so sumunod kami…
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PBA player catches COVID-19, cage league not affected
By Fernan Angeles BUBBLE does not seem a guarantee from the deadly virus from China as the country’s professional basketball league has admitted that a player from the Blackwater Elite team yielded positive for COVID-19 inside the bubble in Clark, Pampanga. In a press briefing on Sunday, no less than Bases Conversion and Development Authority…
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Villar gets donations for her relief efforts during pandemic
Sen. Cynthia A. Villar personally receives medical protective materials and medicines from the Philippine Fujian General Youth Association, Inc., headed by its President James Go, during a simple turn-over ceremony. The donations include, among others, face shields and face masks and medicines. Villar would in turn distribute the donations to LGUs, frontliners and the people…
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Lorenzana on red-tagging: Without any proof, shut up
By Fernan Angeles AN exasperated Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is putting an end to the controversial topic netizens are feasting on by issuing a directive to the Armed Forces of the Philippines to stop red-tagging activities unless they have concrete proofs of their links to the communist insurgents. In a statement, Lorenzana advised Lt. Gen.…
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DILG says anti-communist posters covered by freedom of speech
By Fernan Angeles THE Department of Interior and Local Government doesn’t see anything wrong with the anti-communist billboards adding that such is guaranteed under the constitutional provision on the freedom of speech. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said that the billboards and posters denouncing the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front-New People’s Army are legally…
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Villar donates rapid test kits to Dagupan City
TO further avert the spread of the novel coronavirus, Senator Cynthia A. Villar donated rapid test kits to Dagupan City government in line with the local government’s continuing testing program. Through the Villar SIPAG (Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance), the senator gave Rapid antigen test kits to Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim. Earlier, Lim…
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SMC to buy up plastic wastes to power cement facilities
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is ramping up its efforts to help manage the country’s solid wastes and create more livelihood opportunities in the pandemic by buying up bigger volumes of plastic wastes to fuel its cement manufacturing facilities. This latest initiative comes after a string of major sustainability efforts launched recently by the conglomerate that…
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Former Taliptip settlers relocate to new and safer houses outside airport site
Requests for house blessing from former settlers in Brgy. Taliptip, Bulakan, Bulacan, have risen, according to the parish priest serving areas in and around the future site of the country’s largest, most modern international airport–as former settlers move in to newly-built homes provided to them by San Miguel Corporation (SMC). This comes after SMC’s early…
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Duterte to create own task force to investigate DPWH corruption
By Fernan Angeles TWO days after Secretary Mark Villar announced the creation of an in-house task force to look into alleged corruption in his agency, President Rodrigo Duterte announced he is all set to form a separate task force to rid anomalies in the graft-riddled Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). Villar earlier this…
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VCO reduced virus by 90% – DOST
By John Clifford Lintao THE research arm of the Department of Science and Technology hinted virgin coconut oil’s potential in treating COVID-19. In fact, the most recent findings showed VCO significantly reduced virus by as much as 90 percent among patients who took part in its clinical trial. In a television interview, Philippine Council for…