THE DEVELOPMENT of the Poro Point San Fernando Airport is now a public-private partnership (PPP) project, the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) said in a statement yesterday.
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THE DEPARTMENT of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) is evaluating appeals to extend the bid submission deadline for the P1.72-billion automated fare collection system (AFCS) project.
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THE ENERGY department issued yesterday the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of a law to strengthen and empower the National Electrification Administration (NEA) and electric cooperatives (ECs) in the country.
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Teen to Teen By Elizabeth Horner 5:59 am | Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 High school can be specially trying. For me, I went from being a little girl with big dreams of college—an Ivy League education, to be exact—to a teenager who was expected to make those dreams become real. My anxiety was sky high over failing at the task. I was in calculus, advanced English 12, advanced anatomy, ACP chemistry, Spanish IV, and ACP psychology. Sure I graduated later that same year with a final GPA of 5.11 in the scale of 4.0, but I remember the nights I stayed awake, looking at where the moon should be visible from my window, and worried. Every big paper I turned in didn’t seem to meet my standards, and I pictured it, among a pile on my teacher’s desk, waiting for red ink to fall on it. My tests, especially the ones for chemistry class, haunted me like ghosts. It didn’t matter if I read the chapters in the textbook twice over, or if I went in to see the teacher at lunch with my innumerable questions; I never seemed prepared for the tests. And, in waiting to get my test back, I put myself through some self-imposed mental torture. I’m sure this sounds like the dramatic ramblings of someone young and hormone imbalanced. Maybe it is, but so long as the problems felt real and pressing, with direct lines tying themselves to my future, then they were real problems in need of Read More …
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By Edgardo M. Lopez Esq.INQUIRER.net US Bureau 5:48 am | Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 Same-sex couples all over the United States celebrated on June 26, 2013, after the US Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional part of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA), that denied federal marital benefits to same-sex couples who are legally married under state law. One of the most obvious effects of the ruling is that same-sex couples can now report their income and file tax returns as married people. The decision came from the U.S. v. Windsor, a case involving a same-sex couple living in New York. The female couple, Windsor and Spyer, was legally married in Canada and moved to New York, where the marriage is recognized as valid. When Spyer died, she left her entire estate to Windsor. The controversy arose when Windsor’s claim for federal estate tax exemption as a surviving spouse was denied by the IRS, which ruled that the exemption applies only to the traditional definition of marriage between a man and a woman under DOMA. This resulted in Windsor being compelled to pay more than $300,000 in estate taxes. Windsor filed a lawsuit in federal court, seeking a refund of the estate taxes she paid. The case eventually reached the US Supreme Court, which held Section 3 of DOMA as unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. Although federal agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Read More …
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MANILA (Mabuhay) – President Benigno Aquino III will head government and military officials during welcoming ceremonies for the BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16) upon its arrival at Subic Bay on Aug. 6. “We will be having a meeting with the Presidential Management Staff regarding this (welcoming ceremonies) as President Aquino will be our guest of honor,” […]
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MANILA (Mabuhay) -– After nearly two decades since their last onscreen partnership, Broadway actress Lea Salonga revealed there have been talks about a possible reunion movie with actor Aga Muhlach. Muhlach and Salonga starred in two movies in the 1990s — “Bakit Labis Kitang Mahal” and “Sana Maulit Muli.” “There have been [talks] but can […]
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A recent birthday brought back a treasure trove of beautiful memories from my well wishers, some of whom I’ve spent many beautiful moments with. One precious someone signed his birthday wishes, thus: “forever your soul mate,” which rendered me breathless for a moment. Then I felt a surge of adrenaline up my spine and, I must admit, allowed myself to wallow in the myriad of emotions that went through my mind and filled my whole being. I almost felt embarrassed feeling the way I did, truth be told. In retrospect, I must have been in love with this man, for me to have felt the way I did after reading his birthday greetings. For sure, happy memories of that relationship resurfaced which made me smile all day during my birthday. Family and friends asked me why I looked so happy at my birthday dinner. I guess I am just a hopeless romantic! I remembered that somewhere in my files, I kept an article about the science of falling in love. I immediately looked it up as I wanted to analyze what made me react the way I did. Findings reveal that it takes between 90 seconds and four minutes to determine whether you fancy someone. These are the stats: 55% is through your body language, 38% is the tone and speed of your voice, and only 7% through what they say. It is all so true because I know that when I am attracted to someone, my body Read More …
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MANILA (AFP) – A Philippine government directive for female Muslim teachers to take off their face veils in class is not mandatory nor meant to curtail religious rights, the education minister said Thursday. Education Secretary Armin Luistro issued guidelines last week on wearing the “niqab” in schools, intended mainly for the southern Philippines, where most […]
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MANILA (Mabuhay) – The Commission on Elections has reserved 2 seats in the House of Representatives for the Coalition of Senior Citizens in the Philippines (Senior Citizens) party-list group. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the poll body reserved three party-list seats including 2 for Senior Citizens and 1 for the Abang Likod party-list group after […]