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Manuel Mamba
Manuel Noveno Mamba Sr. (born August 19, 1958) is a Filipino politician who is the current provincial governor of Cagayan. He was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines, representing the 3rd District of Cagayan. First elected in 1995, he was re-elected in 2001, 2004, and 2007. He was also a municipal mayor of Tuao, Cagayan, from 1988 to 1995. He also served as the Presidential Legislative Liaison Officer. Personal life He is a son of the late Congressman Francisco K. Mamba Sr. and Mrs. Estela Noveno Mamba. He is married to Atty. Mabel Villarica–Mamba, former chairperson and chief executive officer of the National Youth Commission and former director of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. They have two sons. He, as well as his brothers, William and Francisco Jr., served as mayor of Tuao, Cagayan. A graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, Mamba is a physician by profession. He became licensed in 1983. Political career As provincial board membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honorable
''The Honourable'' (British English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general and consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners. Africa The Congo In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the prefix 'Honourable' or 'Hon.' is used for members of both chambers of the Parliament of the Democratic Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is a non-profit media organization specializing in investigative journalism. It is based in Quezon City, Philippines. Established in 1989 by nine Filipino journalists, the organization funds investigative projects for both the print and broadcast media. It has published over 1,000 investigative reports and over 1,000 articles in Philippine newspapers and magazines, produced documentaries and published more than two dozen books on current issues. The center also offers writing fellowships to deserving reporters, journalists, and academics. Its PCIJ Story Project, launched in 2017, provides grants for projects that expose human rights abuses, misuse of public funds, and threats to free expression and press freedom. PCIJ is one of two Philippine organizations belonging to the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Organization A board of editors, mostly composed of the center's founders, holds monthly meetings. A board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Philippine Gubernatorial Elections
Gubernatorial elections were held in the Philippines on May 13, 2019. All provinces elected their provincial governors for three-year terms, who will be inaugurated on June 30, 2019 after their proclamation. Governors that are currently serving their third consecutive terms are prohibited from running as governors (they may run for any other posts however). Highly urbanized cities and independent component cities such as Angeles City, Bacolod, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu City, Davao City, Iloilo City and Metro Manila with the municipality of Pateros are outside the jurisdiction of any province and thus do not run elections for governors of their mother provinces (Pampanga, Negros Occidental, Benguet, Misamis Oriental, Cebu, Davao del Sur and Iloilo for Angeles, Bacolod, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu City, Davao City and Iloilo City, respectively). These cities and Pateros elect mayors instead. Summary Luzon Here are the election results as provided by the Commission on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABS-CBN News
ABS-CBN Integrated News and Current Affairs, known on-air as ABS-CBN News (formerly known as ''ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs'' and later ''ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs''), is the news and current affairs production and distribution division of ABS-CBN Corporation. It is responsible for the daily news and information gathering and syndication of its news programs. The division is the Philippines largest news gathering and broadcast organisation and broadcasts on cable television, as well as online news through news.abs-cbn.com, which is the top news website in the country, as of November 2021. They are also the largest Filipino news organization internationally. It also maintains different foreign news bureaus and offices through ABS-CBN International, such as in North America, primarily in the United States and Canada; Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and the Netherlands; Australia; Middle East, primarily in United Arab Emirates; different parts of Asia, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Philippine Gubernatorial Elections
Gubernatorial elections were held in the Philippines on May 9, 2016. All provinces elected their provincial governors for three-year terms, who will be inaugurated on June 30, 2016, after their proclamation. Governors that are currently serving their third consecutive terms are prohibited from running as governors (they may run for any other posts however). Highly urbanized cities and independent component cities such as Angeles City, Bacolod, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu City, Davao City, Iloilo City and Metro Manila with the municipality of Pateros are outside the jurisdiction of any province and thus would not run elections for governors of their mother provinces (Pampanga, Negros Occidental, Benguet, Misamis Oriental, Cebu, Davao del Sur and Iloilo for Angeles, Bacolod, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu City, Davao City and Iloilo City, respectively). These cities and Pateros would elect mayors instead. Davao Occidental held its first gubernatorial election on this day. Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Philippine General Election
A general election in the Philippines took place on May 9, 2016, for executive and legislative branches for all levels of government – national, provincial, and local, except for the barangay officials. At the top of the ballot was the election for successors to Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay. There were also elections for: * 12 seats to the Senate; * All 297 seats to the House of Representatives; * All governors, vice governors, and 772 seats to provincial boards for 81 provinces; * All mayors and vice mayors for 145 cities and for 1,489 municipalities; * All members of the city councils and 11,924 seats on municipal councils; and * Governor, vice governor and all 24 seats in the regional assembly of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The regional elections for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) were scheduled for May 9, but that would have changed if the Bangsamoro political entity had replaced the ARMM. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabinet Of The Philippines
The Cabinet of the Philippines ( fil, Gabinete ng Pilipinas, usually referred to as the Cabinet or Gabinete) consists of the heads of the largest part of the executive branch of the national government of the Philippines. Currently, it includes the secretaries of 22 executive departments and the heads of other several other minor agencies and offices that are subordinate to the president of the Philippines. The cabinet secretaries are tasked to advise the president on the different affairs of the state like agriculture, budget, energy, finance, education, social welfare, national defense, foreign policy, and the like. They are nominated by the president and then presented to the Commission on Appointments, a body of the Congress of the Philippines that confirms all appointments made by the president, for confirmation or rejection. If the presidential appointees are approved, they are sworn into office, receive the title "Secretary", and begin to function their duties. Consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benigno Aquino III
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. The son of assassinated politician Benigno Aquino Jr. and 11th president Corazon Aquino, he was a fourth-generation politician as part of the Aquino family of Tarlac. Benigno Aquino III previously served as a member of the House of Representatives and Senate from 1998 to 2010, and also as a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2006. On September 9, 2009, shortly after the death of his mother, he announced his candidacy in the 2010 presidential election, which he eventually won. He was sworn into office as the 15th president of the Philippines on June 30, 2010, succeeding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidency Of Benigno Aquino III
The presidency of Benigno Aquino III began on June 30, 2010, when he became the 15th president of the Philippines, succeeding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. His term ended on June 30, 2016. Aquino, the third-youngest person elected president, is the only son of the 11th president, Corazon Aquino, and former senator Benigno Aquino Jr. Aquino reformed the country's basic education system by establishing the K-12 program. He enacted the Reproductive Health Bill, providing universal access to methods on contraception. He launched the public-private partnership program to hasten infrastructure development, and formed a commission to investigate issues and corruption allegations against his predecessor, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Aquino extended the modernization program of the military for 15 years. He signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, allowing the United States's military to rotate troops into the Philippines for extended stays and authorizing the US to build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parish Pastoral Council For Responsible Voting
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) is a non-partisan, non-sectarian non-profit organization affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines that works to ensure free, fair and fraud-free elections in the Philippines. The organization has been the "citizens' arm" of the Commission of Elections since 2010. PPCRV conducts the Unofficial Parallel Count of returns after the election. PPCRV's activity includes advocating for electoral reforms, conducting parallel manual auditing in automated elections, coordinating parishes to conduct poll-watching, providing legal assistance related to elections, reporting of electoral violations, providing voters' assistance services, and voters' education. History The Roman Catholic Second Plenary Council of the Philippines, held in February 1991, called for reforms in the conduct of elections in the Philippines. In May 1991, Jaime Cardinal Sin, D.D., Archbishop of Manila, Commission on Elections (Philippines) Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuguegarao
Tuguegarao ( or ), officially the City of Tuguegarao ( ibg, Siyudad nat Tugegaraw; itv, Siyudad yo Tugegaraw; ilo, Siudad ti Tuguegarao; fil, Lungsod ng Tuguegarao ), is a 3rd class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city and capital of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 166,334 people, making it the most populous city in Cagayan Valley and Northeastern Luzon. A major urban center and primary growth center in the Northeastern Luzon, it is the regional center of Cagayan Valley and also its regional institutional and administrative center. One of the fast emerging cities in the Philippines, the city is a convergence area for the provinces of Cagayan, Kalinga (province), Kalinga, Apayao and northern Isabela (province), Isabela. Dubbed as the “Gateway to the Ilocandia and the Cordilleras,” the city is located on the southern border of the province where the Pinacanauan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rappler
Rappler (portmanteau of the words "rap" and "ripple") is a Filipino online news website based in Pasig, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It was founded by 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa along with a group of fellow Filipino journalists as well as technopreneurs. It started as a Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011 and evolved into a website on January 1, 2012. In 2018, agencies under the Philippine government initiated legal proceedings against Rappler. Rappler and its staff alleged it was being targeted for its revelations of corruption by government and elected officials, the usage of bots and trolls favoring Rodrigo Duterte's administration, and documenting the Philippine drug war. In October 2021, Rappler co-founder Ressa, alongside Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for safeguarding freedom of expression in their homelands. History With the idea of professional journalists using social media and crowd sourcing for news dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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