After the recent restructuring of medals, a total of 1,132 personnel of police, fire service, home guard and civil defence and correctional service have been awarded gallantry and service medals on the occasion of the Republic Day, 2024
MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday reported that it is almost done with the printing of official ballots for the October 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). Comelec data showed that as of Feb. 18, a total of 49,599,193 village ballots, or 74.06 percent, have already been printed for 15 regions, out of the 66,973,949 ballots to be printed. These ballots are for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), 2,617,756; Caraga, 1,897,744; Region 12 (Soccsksargen), 2,752,355; Region Cagayan Valley (Batanes only), 13,818; Region 11 (Davao Region), 3,298,734; Region 10 (Northern Mindanao), 3,104,191; Region 9 (Soccsksargen), 2,342,682; Region 8 (Eastern Visayas), 3,221,370; Region 7 (Central Visayas), 5,339,473; Region 6 (Western Visayas), 5,117,270; Region 5 (Bicol Region), 3,979,032; Region 4-B (Mimaropa), 2,029,901; Region 4-A (Calabarzon), 9,362,854; Region 2 (Cagayan Valley), 2,336,381; Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), 1,
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - A total of 8,719,775 residents in Central Luzon registered in the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) in 2022. This represents 70.2 percent of the target registrants in the region, a Philippine Statistics Authority-Regional Statistical Services 3 (PSA-RSSO3) report said on Monday. The latest figure is 29.8 percent below the 12.4 million targeted population in the region, it said. Among the seven provinces in the region, Bulacan has the highest number of registrants with a total of 2,506,260, followed by Pampanga with 1,988,438 and Nueva Ecija with 1,634,873. In terms of completed percentage based on the projected target registrants, Zambales topped off by registering 79.27 percent of its target registrants, followed by Aurora with 72.94 percent and Tarlac with 72.22 percent. On the other hand, the province of Bataan registered 71.62 percent of its target. Arlene Divino, regional director of the PSA-RSSO3, is hopeful that the rest of the target po
NAT'L ID. Provincial head of the Philippine Statistics Authority in Negros Oriental, Ariel Fortuito, has called on 20 percent of the province's population to sign up for the national identification system. Records show that as of Jan. 30, 2023, a total of 80.47 percent of the province's population of 1,432,990 have already registered.(PNA file photo) DUMAGUETE CITY -The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has reported that 80 percent of Negros Oriental's population has registered for the national ID. In an interview on Tuesday, Chief Statistical Analyst and head of PSA-Negros Oriental, Ariel Fortuito, spoke of the challenge of reaching out to the remaining 20 percent so they would sign up. "We are doing everything we can, such as setting up satellite registration outlets and house-to-house visits, to locate and sign up the remainder of the population in Negros Oriental to the national identification system, as the campaign has slowed down a bit," Fortuito sa