SMOKING DEATHS. An art installation features 321 pairs of footwear for different ages and sexes - each representing the 321 smoking-related deaths in the country daily - at the People's Park in Baguio City on Thursday (April 21, 2022). Dr. Donnabel Tubera-Panes, of the city Health Services Office, on Friday (April 22, 2022) said 1,341 individuals and establishments were penalized in 2021 for violating the city's anti-smoking ordinance. (PNA photo by Liza T. Agoot) BAGUIO CITY - The city government has collected last year a total of PHP749,000 in fines from more than 1,000 violators of its anti-smoking ordinance. The city's anti-smoking task force reported that 890 establishments and 451 individuals were caught violating Ordinance 34-2017 or the Smoke-Free Baguio Ordinance in 2021. The collected fines are placed under a special trust fund for the city's continuing anti-smoking campaign. "Tuluy-tuloy tayo, wala ng hinto ito lalo nakikita natin na kahit mahirap ang la
FOR TELLING THE TRUTH. The Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) said the National Task Force (NTF-ELCAC) is facing harassment suits for speaking the truth about the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front. RTF6-ELCAC spokesperson, Prosecutor Flosemer Chris I. Gonzales, on Friday (April 22, 2022) said the complaints were counterattacks against the most vocal spokesperson of the task force.(PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY -Presidential Communications and Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Marie T. Badoy is barraged with harassment suits for doing a good job in exposing the truth about the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF). In a statement released by the Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) on Friday, it said the CPP-NPA-NDF and their front organizations did a counterattack by