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Published April 5, 2021, 7:30 AM Jessy Mendiola and Luis Manzano (Photo by Kapamilya Online World) Actress Jessy Mendiola shared on YouTube a five-minute clip of her intimate wedding with television host-actor Luis Manzano on Easter Sunday, April 4. Entitled “Our Intimate Wedding,” the video has been viewed more than 1.5 million times as of April 5. Here are some highlights from the secret wedding of Luis and Jessy which reportedly took place in Batangas City on Feb. 21, 2021. Reports said...

(Photo by Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP / FILE PHOTO) Data from the National Task force (NTF) Against COVID-19 showed that the deliveries for this month include 1.5 million doses of CoronaVac vaccines from China’s Sinovac Biotech; 100,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccines from Russia’s Gamaleya Research Institute; and one million doses of vaccines –most likely from British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca– through the Covax facility. As of Saturday, April 3, there were 795,320 individuals who have bee...

Samples of DOLE Nego-Karts (Catbalogan gov website / FILE PHOTO) A statement released by DOLE last March 6 said the agency, in partnership with the local government unit (LGU) of Lipa, Batangas, distributed Nego-Karts to 45 parents of child laborers. The Nego-Kart is a project of the DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (DILEEP) that aims to assist ambulant vendors in making their business more sustainable. Each mobile vending station costs at least P20,000. It has been a...

BIR wants POGOs, other businesses suspended over failure to file tax returns By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published March 4, 2021 8:41pm The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has proposed the suspension or temporary closure of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) and business establishments that will not file their income tax return or underdeclare their sales or revenues. BIR Deputy Commissioner Arnel Guballa made the suggestion on Thursday as the Senate ways and means panel tackle...

Published March 1, 2021, 5:30 PM Senators had nothing but praises for Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto. This, as the Senate adopted on Monday, March 1, a resolution commending the 31-year-old local chief executive after being recognized by the United States’ Department of State as one of its global “Anti-Corruption Champions”. Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto Sotto was in the Senate plenary to personally hear and receive the Senate’s recognition. Senator Panfilo Lacson, author and sponsor of Senate...

Sen. Joel Villanueva (Joseph Vidal/Senate PRIB) “We can honor them more by providing them with more vaccines to choose from which our government should provide them and our people,” Villanueva said in a statement as the Philippines rolled out the inoculations Monday, March 1, using the China-donated vaccines from Sinovac Biotech. He said the start of the vaccinations should not only be considered symbolic, but should also start a no-let up, sustained vaccination drive from the government...

Published February 28, 2021, 4:57 PM Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the botched entrapment that led to a bloody gunfight between the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) last Wednesday, Feb. 24 highlights the need to speed up the implementation on the use of body and dash cameras in police operations and patrols. Senator Ralph Recto (Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN) “It is again a bloody reminder of a missing but vital equip...

Published February 26, 2021, 9:20 PM Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is confident that the committee led by Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa will be able to uncover what transpired in the controversial “misencounter” between anti-drug operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Philippine National Police (PNP) last Wednesday. Senator Ralph Recto (Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO) “The Senate has the power and the prerogative to investigate the PDEA-P...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto on Thursday gave this assignment to the Department of Education (DepEd): Set up laboratory schools that will test the safety of limited face-to-face classes.

The Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation said there is no need for a new law to penalize red-tagging, citing legal remedies under existing laws are already sufficient.