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THE National Capital Region Police Office on Saturday announced it will send more patrols on the streets of Metro Manila amid the reported rise of cases of kidnapping and abuses against women and children. This comes days after the Philippine National Police denied the occurrence of serial abductions after some witnesses said they were eing tailed by “white vans.” MORE...In an interview with DZMM Teleradyo, NCRPO Chief Gen. Jonnel Estomo said the regional police are set to patrol malls, private subdivisions, and churches to ascertain the safety of Metro Manila residents. “As of today, I have deployed
THE National Capital Region Police Office on Saturday announced it will send more patrols on the streets of Metro Manila amid the reported rise of cases of kidnapping and abuses against women and children. This comes days after the Philippine National Police denied the occurrence of serial abductions after some witnesses said they were eing tailed by “white vans.” MORE...In an interview with DZMM Teleradyo, NCRPO Chief Gen. Jonnel Estomo said the regional police are set to patrol malls, private subdivisions, and churches to ascertain the safety of Metro Manila residents. “As of today, I have deployed
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BURST OF COLOR. People from all walks of life spend their evening at the K-Town Festive Walk in Iloilo under a canopy of colorful lanterns. Manny Marcelo
PH set to sail ‘Layag-WPS’ P80-m livelihood program to help over 370,000 fishermen in EEZ
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HE Marcos administration will launch its “Layag WPS” project or the Livelihood Activities to Enhance Fisheries Yield and Economic Gains (Layag) from the West Philippine Sea aimed at protecting Filipino fishermen as well as state floating assets amid continuing incursions of Chinese vessels in the area.
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources spokesman Nazario Briguera said the government has about P80 million to give comprehensive support to fishermen in the West Philippine Sea. “BFAR will launch our Layag WPS project in the next few days. We are planning to package this as a special project for this year,” he said in a press briefing on Saturday. Briguera’s announcement came days after a Chinese Navy ship tailed a BFAR
multi-mission vessel, BRP Francisco Dagohoy, in an area six nautical miles southwest of Pag-asa Island, which is well within the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea. The rare encounter with China’s “gray” or military ship after BRP Dagohoy carried P4.95 million worth of fishing and postharvest equipment to fisherfolk groups in Pag-Asa Island. Briguera, in an earlier interview, said
fisheries production in the West Philippine Sea has dropped by seven percent between 2021 and 2022. Based on Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data, production was down to 275,872 metric tons of fish in 2022, from 295,332 MT in the previous year. “When we say total production in the West Philippine Sea, we are not just talking about Pag-asa Island. We are referring to the total production of provinces fronting the West Philippine Sea,” he said.
Permanent no-entry into Mayon danger zone sought ‘Oil spill recovery completed n By VINCE LOPEZ THE Office of the Civil Defense is looking at several proposals to ban residential settlements within the 6-kilometer radius permanent danger zone (PDZ) of the Mayor Volcano, including pursuing a natural park development project in the area. “OCD is pushing for so-called sciencebased institutions – Phivolcs, DENR, and DPWH – to look at permanent solutions, and which are feasible. We should accept by now that there should be no residents within the 6-kilometer danger zone,” OCD Administrator Usec. Ariel Nepomuceno said in a press briefing on Saturday. “We will push the PNP and the local
government units – encourage them – that if there is a legal way to force [the residents out of the PDZ], then that should be implemented,” he added. Nepomuceno said developing the natural park project in the area is a long-term solution that would ease the burden of both the local and national governments and would better manage their respective disaster and relief funds. “It is really exhausting – when they evacuate, we have to source food for them, classes get disrupted. Resources get drained from the barangay to the municipal to the national government level,” he said. He said the
Don’t buy, use glow-in-the-dark ‘lato-lato’—FDA
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but containment continues’ THE extraction of the remaining oil from the sunken MT Princess Empress in Oriental Mindoro has been completed – two days ahead of the June 19 target date – but containment efforts will continue, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Saturday. About 95 percent of the affected shorelines are now clean and only “very minimal traces” of oil are left in the vessel, PCG spokesperson Rear Admiral Armand Balilo said. “The eight tanks are now empty with minimal pipe drips, which can no longer
be recovered through siphoning,” he said, adding that two salvage vessels would remain in the area. Balilo said the operation is not yet over. “There’s still much more to do,” he said, referring to the oil containment operation. “We will make an evaluation this week to make sure that the affected shorelines have been cleaned.” The M/T Princess Empress was reportedly carrying about 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil when it encountered engine trouble on Feb. 28, leading to its sinking off the waters of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro.
Fatherhood in the age of digital technology n By ANGELICA VILLANUEVA AND PATRICIA TACULAO
THE Food and Drug Administration has warned the public against buying and using “unnotified” lato-lato or clacker toys, particularly the one with lights and the glow-in-the-dark varieties, as these can contain harmful materials. “Potential hazards may come from ingredients that are not allowed to be part of a toy and childcare article product,” the FDA said in its advisory. “The use of substandard and possibly adulterated toy and childcare article product may result to health risks including, but not limited to, endocrine disruption and reproductive or development effects; or may result to injury, choking or suffocation due to its small or broken parts,” it added. The FDA told the public to always check if a product is notified through its website: https://verification.fda. gov.ph.
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OCD will conduct a thorough research on related legislations that may already be pending or existing policies for enforcement, such as the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas (E-NIPAS) Act or Republic Act No. 11038. Under the law, Mount Mayon Natural Park is one of the 94 sites declared as protected areas. Mayon Volcano, which remains under Alert Level 3, continued to emit lava, Phivolcs said yesterday. In the past 24 hours, the state seismology office recorded two volcanic earthquakes and 280 rockfall events at the volcano, which also emitted 978 tons of sulfur dioxide in a day.
‘Lato-lato’ or clackers. FDA
WHAT does being a father mean? Society perceives a father’s role into three parts: the protector, the provider, and the disciplinarian. But as the world entered the modern age where technology and new ideas reign, the image of a father changed. Today, we see fathers who embrace their emotions and teach their children to express themselves wholeheartedly. But regardless of their philosophies or parenting approach, their love for their children, with a little help from technological advances, trumps all odds.
PATERNAL LOVE. Digital art card shows a photo of a father playing with his two sons on top of a slide at the Children’s Park in Luneta Park ahead of Father’s Day today. Photo by Norman Cruz, Art by Glenn Mark Abonita
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