Usec. Lorraine Badoy (extreme left) of the Presidential Communications Operations Office personally engages with the Ata-Manobo Tribe on Feb. 19 at the conference room of the Police Regional Office-7. (idc/PIA-7)
CEBU CITY, Feb. 22 (PIA) Education, housing, roads, and a reservoir irrigation project are the main concerns some parents of the Ata-Manobo Tribe aired during a face-to-face meeting with Usec. Lorraine Badoy of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) on Feb. 19 at the conference room of the Police Regional Office-7.
Badoy, chairperson of the Strategic Communication Cluster of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or NTF-ELCAC, flew to Cebu last Friday afternoon upon instruction of the President to personally check on the condition of both parents and the rescued indigenous people (IP) minors.
February 24, 2021 PASIG City Mayor Vico Sotto has been selected as one of 12 global anti-corruption champions by the United States Department of State.
Sotto, 31, was cited for his commitment to transparency initiatives both as a Pasig city councilor and as mayor.
As a Pasig City councilor in 2018, Sotto spent a month at the Des Moines Public Information Board in Des Moines, Iowa, as part of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Professional Fellows Program in the United States.
“He used this experience to help him design and pass Pasig’s first freedom of information legislation when he returned to the Philippines,” the US Embassy in the Philippines said in a statement.
Suspect in 2018 killing of Davao del Norte journo nabbed task force
Published February 24, 2021 10:37am
Updated February 24, 2021 10:42am One of the suspected gunmen in the 2018 killing of Davao del Norte journalist Dennis Denora has been arrested, the government task force on media security announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) identified the suspect as Richard Posas Bolastig, a subject of a court-issued arrest warrant. Bolastig is currently detained at the Tagum City Jail awaiting trial, PTFoMS said. Denora, publisher of Trends and Times, a community paper based in Davao del Norte, was killed by two gunmen in an ambush in Panabo City on June 7, 2018.
Published February 24, 2021, 4:32 PM
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