DepEd reminds LGUs: coordinate with PAGASA on school suspensions

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Jun 132013
 
DepEd reminds LGUs: coordinate with PAGASA on school suspensions

DepEd suspends classes in some NCR schools due to floods. Students of Araullo High School wade in knee-deep flood along Taft Avenue in Manila after an hour of heavy downpour on Thursday, June 13. Some classes in elementary and high school levels have been suspended by the DepEd due to flooded Metro Manila streets. Danny Pata Following Thursday’s heavy rain and floods that stranded several students, the Department of Education on Friday reminded local government officials to coordinate more closely with state weather forecasters in suspending classes. DepEd assistant secretary Tonesito Umali said many students had complained of class suspension announcements coming late, radio dzBB’s Glen Juego reported. Umali said the late announcements resulted in them getting stranded in the streets and soaked in the rain and floods. He said local government units should monitor weather conditions and advisories from the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration more closely, and issue suspension orders accordingly. On Thursday, heavy rain from a thunderstorm lashed Metro Manila, flooding several areas including school zones. While local government units canceled afternoon and evening classes, many students had already been stranded by then. —KG, GMA News

Walang Pasok: UST cancels Friday classes

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Jun 132013
 
Walang Pasok: UST cancels Friday classes

DepEd suspends classes in some NCR schools due to floods. Students of Araullo High School wade in knee-deep flood along Taft Avenue in Manila after an hour of heavy downpour on Thursday, June 13. Some classes in elementary and high school levels have been suspended by the DepEd due to flooded Metro Manila streets. Danny Pata Classes Friday at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila are suspended, the university’s Office of the Secretary General said in an advisory, which the school’s official student publication tweeted late Thursday. Earlier, monsoon rain-induced flooding in and around UST’s campus prompted school authoririties to suspend classes Thursday afternoon. The monsoon flooding stranded some students and staff in the campus. The Varsitarian reported that school authorities provided “free food to stranded Thomasians.” The suspension directive covers office work and classes from high school to post-graduate levels, the Varsitarian reported the Office of the Secretary General as having advised the campus community. Fr. Winston F. Cabading, O.P. is the UST Secretary-General.  Meanwhie, classes about two street blocks away at the Far Eastern University in Morayta, Manila will resume Friday, according to an advisory sent out 10:56 p.m. via the university’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts.   — ELR, GMA News

Palace belies extradition claim from Kiram camp

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Jun 102013
 
Palace belies extradition claim from Kiram camp

Kirams ready to face the music. Princess Jacel Kiram, daughter of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, talks to media at a press conference in Taguig City on Monday. Together with Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Dr. Abdurahman Amin of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Princess Jacel said the family is ready to face any charge that the government may file against them for the intrusion in Sabah. Danny Pata Malacañang has downplayed claims from the camp of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, whose followers were embroiled in deadly clashes with security men in Sabah three months ago while pressing their claim on the territory, that the Philippine government plans to extradite members of the clan to Malaysia. In a press conference Monday at the Kiram’s residence in Maharlika Village in Taguig City, the sultan’s daughter Princess Jacel Kiram claimed that the family had received information from sources “within the government” about plans to turn in the Kirams to the Malaysian government. In a report on GMA News TV’s Balitanghali, Jacel said the extradition plan was “very close na sa implementation.”   But presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda belittled the statement and said: “Claim lang ‘yon. Wala, we have not [discussed anything like that].” Some of the sultan’s followers are currently facing criminal cases in Sabah for the incursion last February. Meanwhile, the National Bureau of Investigation has yet to submit its report on the Sabah incursion to the Department of Justice, which will make its recommendation to President Benigno Aquino Read More …

Hero's welcome awaits now famous dog Kabang in Zamboanga

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Jun 082013
 
Hero's welcome awaits now famous dog Kabang in Zamboanga

Hero dog Kabang goes to Makati after arriving from US. Team Kabang members play with hero dog Kabang during a presentation rite in Makati City shortly after the dog’s arrival from a successful operation in San Francisco, California, USA. From left to right: Mona Consunji of Animal Welefare Coalition, veterinarians Anton Mari Lim and Edgardo Unson. Danny Pata The residents of Zamboangga City will be giving a hero’s welcome to the now internationally-famous dog Kabang, who arrived in the Philippines on Saturday after her eight-month treatment in the United States. Kabang’s owners — Rudy and Cristina Bunggal — and the hero dog’s fans are eagerly awaiting her arrival in Zamboanga on Sunday, according to a report of Kara David for “24 Oras.” Kabang’s owners said even the pup that the dog left behind before going to the US, is also excited about the hero dog’s arrival. The couple’s niece, Mary Jane Manuel said, they are happy that Kabang, who became famous for heroically saving two young girls from a road accident, is finally headed home. Zamboangga residents have readied a motorcade and a meet-and-greet- for the hero dog. Kabang’s arrival in PHL Balitanghali’s Katrina Son said Kabang arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport around 3:00 a.m. on Saturday and was mobbed by local media. The hero dog seemed to look healthier and more cheerful after undergoing reconstructive surgery to close the gaping wound on her face. Kabang’s Philippine vet Dr. Anthony Lim said Kabang underwent a gruelling five-hour facial Read More …

Low turnout for local absentee voting dissapoints Comelec chief Brillantes

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May 012013
 
Low turnout for local absentee voting dissapoints Comelec chief Brillantes

Poll chief Brillantes casts vote 14 days ahead of Election Day. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. casts his vote on the second day of the local absentee voting at the poll body’s head office in Intramuros, Manila on Monday. Government officials and workers, including police and military personnel, and, for the first time, approved, media practitioners who will be on duty on Election Day, are allowed to exercise their right of suffrage in advance. Danny Pata Even as he has yet to receive the final report on the recently-concluded three-day local absentee voting, Elections chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. is not satisfied with the low turnout of voters in the electoral exercise. In an interview with reporters Wednesday, Brillantes said that based on initial figures, the registration and number of those who voted was lower compared to the 2010 elections. “Definitely hindi ako satisfied. Hindi maganda ang registration dahil lumiit compared to 2010, lumiit ang registration from 33,0000 I think in 2010, ngayon 18,000 lang. Tapos ang turnout hindi ko alam kung gaano kalaki,” he said. Of the 18,332 who registered for this election’s local absentee voting, only 12,732 were found qualified to vote. The local absentee voting was conducted from April 28 to 30. Data from the Comelec-National Capital Region showed that of the 366 media personnel who registered for local absentee voting, only 200 availed of the privilege. In the past, only government officials and employees, and members of the National Police and Armed Forces who are temporarily assigned to Read More …

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