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Career Executive Service Officers (CESOs), Career Executive Service Eligibles (CESEs) and Career Service Executive Eligibles (CSEEs) attentively listen to a presentation during a CESB Leadership Conclave with the Theme: "Govergence: Cultivating Exemplary Service." (Photo courtesy of Mr. Ernesto Alcanzare, Yes For Peace - Bayanihan ng Bayan lead organizer) The Whole of Nation approach to ending the armed conflicts being pursued by the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflicts (NTF-ELCAC) is anchored on good governance and would entail direct people’s participation.  Giv...

The seeds of Yes for Peace – Bayanihan ng Bayan (YFP-BB), a non-government initiative to get the Filipino people into the centerstage of the comprehensive peace process that was eventually supported by government agencies, was planted at the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines (UP) in 1988. Four years later, in 1992, the campaign, which was then known as DiYes for Peace was recognized by the UP Board of Regents when it resolved to declare all UP campuses a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN), as well as support the campaign inside and outside of UP. The campaign s...

(Photo from Magnolia Press) The newly identified species was named Tegotettix derijei, also known as Mindanao horned pygmy devil. It was studied and described by scientists Victor B. Amoroso, Alma Baguhin Mohagan, and Romeo Rogano Patano Jr. of Central Mindanao University (CMU), Josef Tumbrinck of University of Münster, and Josip Skejo of University of Zagreb, and published in the international peer-reviewed scientific journal Zootaxa in its February 2021 issue. The Mindanao horned pygmy devil is described as a “new peculiar, spiky, and yellowish species” of the genus Tegotettix Hancock ...

(Photo from DOST-PCIEERD / MANILA BULLETIN) The DoST-PCIEERD-supported R&D laboratories were presented in a virtual event through the Institution Development Program (IDP) – the University of the Philippines Cebu Laboratory; Cavite State University Simulation, Modeling, and Measurement Laboratory (CvSU SiMM Lab); the University of the Cordilleras Geographic Information System Innovation Laboratory (UC GIS InnoLab); the Bataan Peninsula State University Additive Manufacturing and Research Laboratory (BPSU AMReL); and the DoST-Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) Capability Buil...

Yes for Peace holds peace and human rights-oriented event kickoff in front of the UP Carillon Tower in Diliman, Quezon City (Photo courtesy of Mr. Ernesto A. Alcanzare) CALOOCAN CITY, Dec. 13 (PIA) -- Following strict health protocols set by the World Health Organization, representatives of various sectors had peaceably assembled on International Human Rights Day to officially launch the historic Yes for Peace-Bayanihan ng Bayan para sa Kapayapaan, Kaunlaran at Kasaganaan at the Andres Bonifacio Centennial Carillon Tower located in the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines syste...