INAUGURATION. Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. (2nd from left), leads the ribbon cutting for the new building for Cordillera's forensics unit on Thursday (Feb. 16, 2023) at Camp Bado Dangwa in La Trinidad town, Benguet province. The building is envisioned to be a state-of-the-art facility for forensic services. (PNA photo by Liza T. Agoot) LA TRINIDAD, Benguet - A structure that will soon house a state-of-the-art facility for forensic work was inaugurated inside the Philippine National Police-Cordillera regional headquarters at Camp Bado Dangwa here on Thursday. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Cordillera turned over to the PNP-Cordillera's regional Forensics Group (RFG) the PHP40-million, four-story building that stands on a 240-square-meter land inside the police camp. "We will be allocating funds or looking for partner agencies that will help us equip this new building with the up-to-date equipment," said Gen. Rodolfo Azur
STATE OF CALAMITY. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. holds a meeting with officials of the Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday (Feb. 1, 2023). Marcos ordered the DOH to ensure that healthcare workers will continue to get their allowances despite the expiration of the state of calamity on Dec. 31, 2022. (Photo courtesy of the Presidential Communications Office) MANILA - President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Wednesday ordered the Department of Health (DOH) to ensure that healthcare workers will continue to receive their allowances despite the expiration of the state of calamity declared in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Marcos made this remark in a meeting with DOH officials at Malacanan Palace. The state of calamity expired on Dec. 31, 2022. "Tuloy-tuloy 'yan. Yung inaalala ko dati na hindi matutuloy ang compensation para sa ating health workers.'Yung allowance nila ay pinag-aralan namin nang mabuti kahit hindi itinutuloy ang state of calamity ay hindi maapektuhan an
COMMUNITY SPIRIT. Participants take part in Baguio City's month-long "Panagbenga 2023," which opened on Wednesday (Feb. 1, 2023). The festival was originally conceptualized to help lift the city's economy after the 1990 earthquake. (PNA photo by Liza T. Agoot) BAGUIO CITY - The city's most famous month-long festival, Panagbenga, opened on Wednesday to a bevy of community-led activities, including two opening grand parades participated in by students and groups both from the public and private sectors. The Panagbenga was started in 1996 to help boost the spirits of residents as they get back on their feet after a major earthquake from a few years back. Twenty-seven years later, the city arrives at another flash point as the festival once again helps the city recover from the global coronavirus pandemic. "Panagbenga was born because time there was a need for the city to recover from the devastation of the 1990 earthquake and there was a need to have activities
LONDON - Some 200 children who were seeking asylum in the UK went missing after they were placed in hostels run by the government, the Home Office minister admitted Monday in official testimony. Speaking at the House of Lords, Simon Murray said many of the missing children were later tracked down and found, The Guardian reported. The disclosure came after The Observer, The Guardian's sister daily, reported that a whistleblower from a hostel in the seaside city of Brighton, run by the Home Office, claimed that some children had been abducted outside the hotel and forced into cars. "The Home Office have no power to detain unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in these hotels and we do know that some of them go missing," he added, adding that many "are subsequently traced." Answering a question from Liberal Democrat peer Paul Scriven, Murray added that one girl and at least 13 under-16s were among those missing after being placed in hotels run by the Home Office. H
Mohali (Punjab) [India], September 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): "The Free Mega Multi-Specialty Health Check-up Camp being organised by Chandigarh Welfare Trust (CWT), along with the NID Foundation and Chandigarh University Gharuan on September 17 is garnering huge response from the citizens of Chandigarh, especially for the cancer screening, in terms of registrations," informed CWT Founder S Satnam Singh Sandhu. Sandhu said this at the launch of a cancer awareness and cancer youth ambassadors program at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, where he was flanked by Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, Chairman of World Cancer Care Charitable Society, the organisation with whom the CWT is organising a special screening test for 7 types of cancer, as part of its mega camp slated to be organised on the occasion of Seva Diwas, as part of the celebrations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 72nd birthday. It may be mentioned that to celebrate the spirit of Seva and to encompass the service to every strata