Benjamin Locsin News Today

President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. ordered concerned agencies to ensure that the thousands of informal settler families (ISF) who will be affected by the ongoing P18-billion rehabilitation of the Pasig River will be given relocation sites. In his speech during the launch of the Pasig Bigyang Buhay Muli (PBBM) project…

After a hiatus of four years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Kasanggayahan Festival is now back with a bang. This year’s celebration is bigger and way better. With the theme "Kooperasyon Tungo sa Progresibong Sorsogon, Una an Sorsogon," Gov. Jose Edwin “Boboy” Hamor launched this year’s 10-day (October 8…

Relatively unknown to many, Manila has another fort, aside from the well-known Fort Santiago, located south of Intramuros and this one is not easy to visit as it is located within the confines of the high-security Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex (BSP) - the 1.2-hectare, trapezoid-shaped and equally historic but hidden Fort San Antonio Abad.

A lot of my childhood memories included family visits to Tagaytay City, the country’s other summer capital (after Baguio City), where we enjoyed the cool and crisp (average temperature is 22.7º Celsius) mountain air and a picture-pretty view of Taal Volcano from its original grand garden view deck—the English Tudor Mansion-style Taal Vista Hotel. A generation

Pangasinan just opened another showcase of its rich cultural heritage and history—the Banaan Pangasinan Provincial Museum.  Rightfully housed in the historic Casa Real in the heart of Lingayen, the capital town of the province, the provincial museum is a collaborative effort between the Provincial Government of Pangasinan and various cultural…

During my college years, my bus would always traverse the Quezon Memorial Circle during the long and tedious commute from my house in Parañaque to the University of the Philippines in Diliman.  Back then, the park seemed bare, with only the Quezon Memorial breaking the monotony. Since then, in order…

Here in the Philippines, when one mentions locally made shoes, the first word that comes into mind is Marikina.  The Shoe Capital of the Philippines, the shoe making industry in this city began in 1887 when Don Laureano “Kapitan Moy” Guevarra served as Marikina’s captain municipal.  Historical accounts say that he…

The provincial government of Sorsogon, a rapidly emerging tourism destination in the country, has been in the forefront of a big tourism push with the launch of their new tourism campaign “Beautiful Sorsogon!—Where Beauty is Everywhere.”  Part of this campaign was to invite least 40 national and local media practitioners…

One of my regrets was I never got to visit the old Metropolitan Museum of Manila, an art museum that exhibits local and international contemporary art, that was formerly located in a building designed by Gabriel Formoso. Located within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Complex along Roxas Boulevard in the Malate district of Manila, it billed itself…

The second time we joined another free tour of Renacimiento Manila we went around Chinatown for the Binondo Heritage Tour. Leading the tour this time is Stephen John Pamorada, a cultural entrepreneur and Heritage Collective owner. We, my son Jandy and I,  were in the distinguished company as joining us were…