AWARENESS. The Grand Duterte Legacy caravan held in Tacloban City on May 1, 2022 participated by key officials from national government agencies hosted by the Philippine National Police. The caravan held on Labor Day in Eastern Visayas seeks to raise public awareness of the major accomplishments of the administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. (Photo courtesy of PNP Region 8) TACLOBAN CITY - The Philippine National Police (PNP) regional office hosted the simultaneous Grand Duterte Legacy caravan held on Labor Day in Eastern Visayas seeking to raise public awareness of the major accomplishments of the administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte. Each city or provincial police office partnered with other government agencies to deliver goods and services on Sunday that benefited around 5,547 individuals in six provinces and seven cities. "The conduct of the grand caravan is not a culmination of programs and projects of the present administration per se but rather an awarenes
Three largest projects completed in terms of cost include the MRT-3 Rehabilitation Project at P21.966 billion, the New Clark City Phase 1 at P18 billion, and the Clark International Airport Expansion project at P14.972 billion.
Commission on Elections-Cebu supervisor Lawyer Jerome Brillantes. (PNA file photo by John Rey Saavedra) CEBU CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Cebu province on Tuesday urged candidates for the May 9 elections to voluntarily remove their campaign posters hanging in trees, electric poles and wires, and walls not declared as common poster areas. Lawyer Jerome Brillantes, the Comelec-Cebu supervisor, said candidates and their political parties should look for the common poster areas in each barangay and avoid mounting them anywhere. "We will start tearing down campaign posters on April 12. If they have posters that are still hanging or posted in public places and are not in the designated common poster area, they should not wait for us to take them down. If we say public places, that means anywhere outside of the common poster area designated by the election officers in the barangay," Brillantes told the Philippine News Agency in an interview. In the April 12 "
(File photo) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The Police Regional Office in Northern Mindanao (PRO-10) proposed 21 areas for inclusion in the initial list of election hotspot areas. In an interview Saturday night over the Cabinet Officers for Regional Development and Security (Cords) 10 podcast, PRO-10 director Brig. Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. said the Regional Police Intelligence Committee and the Joint Armed Forces of the Philippines-Philippine National Police Intelligence Committee will convene with other agencies and security forces before releasing the list. "We will come to an agreement that those are the hotspots and other categorization of our areas," he said in the online show hosted by Recthie Paculba of the Philippine Information Agency-10. Acorda assured that PRO-10 is continuously monitoring the movements of private armed groups and described Northern Mindanao as still generally peaceful. PRO-10 spokesperson Lt. Col. Michelle Olaivar said residents of hotspot areas need not w
(File photo) MANILA - The Duterte administration has delivered its promise of faster internet connection for Filipinos even before its term ends this year. Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) Director General Jeremiah Belgica said Friday the whole-of-government approach of simplifying the process of putting up telecommunications infrastructure facilitated improvements in the speed of fixed broadband and mobile data in the country. This, as Ookla reported that the country's mobile internet download speed increased to 19.20 megabits per second (Mbps) in December last year from 18.68 Mbps in November, while fixed broadband download speed improved to 50.26 Mbps from 46.44 Mbps in the same period. "It is with great pride that we recognize the collaborative efforts of the telecommunication sector and our government agencies in continuously providing streamlined guidelines for the issuance of permits, licenses, and certificates for the construction of Shared Passive Telecommunications Tow