(File photo) MANILA - As President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. turned 65 years old, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) on Tuesday announced the top 65 government agencies that it will honor for "religiously and accurately paying GSIS premiums and loan payments on time." GSIS president and general manager Wick Veloso said the 65 government agencies, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, are helping government employees enjoy the hard-earned benefits that they deserve for devoting the best years of their lives to serving the government. "We all know that loan balances, if left unpaid, would balloon to unmanageable amounts. This will diminish members' benefits and leave them with little or no proceeds at all when they retire or separate from the service," Veloso said in a statement. These government agencies, he noted, are utilizing GSIS' various programs for their employees. "Pinararangalan din natin ang animnapu't liman
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PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold Carreon (File photo) MANILA - The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) will exhaust all available legal remedies relative to the criminal charges filed by the Department of Justice's National Prosecution Service (NPS) against three PDEA operatives and four policers following the alleged misencounter in Quezon City in February last year. In a statement on Saturday, PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold Carreon said the agency stands by its Drug Enforcement Officers' (DEO) action on Feb. 24, 2021 when two separate anti-drug operations ended in a misencounter in front of a fast-food chain, killing two PDEA agents and two police officers. "In light of this resolution and after the conduct of its own internal investigation, the PDEA unequivocally stands behind the actions of its DEOs, that the actions of the PDEA agents in that fateful afternoon embody the agency's brand of professionalism and excellence," Carreon said. He said the PDEA