According to the victims’ elder brother, Erwin, who serves as caretaker of the building, Marlo – who lives with him – went missing at around 1 p.m. Wednesday while fixing a chicken coop at the dry portion of the basement. Thinking that Marlo could have slipped into the water, Edwin went underwater but failed to surface. Erwin said he called up Arnulfo from Imus, Cavite, who also dived into the water upon arriving at the building past 6 p.m. He also did not surface.

It was only then that Erwin and his mother, Editha, sought assistance from the police, who called up the BFP and the MMDA.

“We have to come up with some kind of strategy wherein, let’s say, you provide scholarships and then the scholarship agreement includes that you stay three years. After that then they’re free to go,” Marcos said during the Private Sector Advisory Council-Jobs Sector Group (PSAC-Jobs) meeting on Thursday, which was relayed by the Presidential Communications Office through a statement on Friday.

Bro should just out right say that we want you to he a slave to the country for three years before you're free

Officials from PSAC agreed that the local labor market for health care and information technology sectors cannot match the high pay offered in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Europe.

counterpoint those countries have better worker protections and perks (i.e PTO) than what we have here in PH I feel like she is missing the forest for the trees with this one

“I think what we can do is to continue to offer certificate programs and train their skills. I think we can do that. There’s no way for us to retain them,” said Teresita Sy-Coson of SM Investments Corp, who presented the proposals in the meeting on behalf of the PSAC Jobs sector.

certificate programs that we all know the graduate will have to pay for out of pocket how about instead of that you consider worker rights and protections oh wait she is with SM Investments all the 7 hells must freeze before they even think about that

Greenhills is no longer a shopping mecca. In its heyday, it used to get as many as 80,000 shoppers on weekdays and 100,000 to 120,000 on weekends.

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ANC programs will continue to be seen on air through partner cable TV providers nationwide and online via the ANC 24/7 YouTube channel, the ABS-CBN news website (news.abs-cbn.com), and on social media.

It will also be on iWantTFC and The Filipino Channel.

We cut the cord about 6 years ago, but SkyCable was part of a lot of childhood memories.

"i" Channel, most importantly. AXN, Star Plus, Tech TV. But who can also forget going from Sky to Destiny back and forth because the NBA and Star Sports channels kept on being exclusive to one CATV provider every 5 years, lol.

i dunno how to feel about this I was always told that this was to accommodate for int'l students and to avoid suspensions of brought by rainy season but something tells me that was never really the case

The unfortunate closure was confirmed by Adrian Dimacali – the director of Mary Grace Foods, Inc. and the son of Mary Grace herself – on Facebook on Tuesday, January 9. In his post, he recounted the origin story of Mary Grace’s Greenbelt 2 space, which opened in May 2011. He shared that is was the brand’s first “large format space” then, with a seating capacity of 159 guests and a total leased floor of 303.95 square meters (of which 53.92 was ground floor, 76.50 was mezzanine, and 73.53 was al fresco). It was also Mary Grace’s fourth branch in Ayala Malls and its seventh café overall.

Elmer Francisco, heir to the Francisco Motors legacy that built a generation of jeepneys, has a lot to say about the public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization program – and not all of them are good.

One glaring problem, Francisco told Rappler, is the government’s lack of planning and funding. Under the ambitious program to upgrade PUVs nationwide, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) wants operators to eventually buy fleets of modern jeepneys, the average price of which soars up to P2.48 million, to be offset only by a government subsidy of P280,000.

“It’s like a cartel. Parang sila-sila nag-uusap ‘yung mga foreign manufacturers na dapat ganito presyo natin (It’s like those foreign manufacturers talking among themselves and agreeing on a price),” Francisco told Rappler.

“Kung papansinin mo, ‘yung presyo nila halos pare-pareho (If you notice, their prices are almost all the same). That’s impossible,” he added. “Within their own costing, it shouldn’t be that high.”

But Francisco Motors plans to challenge the notion of modern jeepneys being pricey by selling electric jeepneys for just P985,000 a unit. And the Maharlika Investment Corporation is listening.

In an interview, Francisco told Rappler that he had been in talks with Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC) president and chief executive officer Joel Consing and Camarines Norte Governor Dong Padilla.

“Just recently, last week, nag-meeting kami (we had a meeting). I presented the plan together with Governor Dong Padilla,” the Francisco Motors chairman and chief executive officer said on Monday, January 8.

The MIC, with its approved capitalization scheme of P125 billion, is currently on the lookout for high-impact projects that contribute to nation-building. Infrastructure, power, and transportation are among the priority investment sectors identified.