In a plot twist straight out of a Filipino telenovela, Vice President Sara Duterte has exited stage left from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Cabinet. On June 19, 2024, the Palace announced that Duterte “tendered her resignation as Member of the Cabinet, Secretary of the Department of Education and Vice Chairperson of the NTF Elcac, effective 19 July 2024.” Presidential Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil stated that President Marcos accepted Duterte’s resignation, which intriguingly came with no given reason. However, Duterte assured the nation that her departure was “not borne out of weakness but true concern for our teachers and Filipino youth.”

Vice President Sara Duterte’s Dramatic Exit from the Cabinet

The Metro Manila Development Authority, created by former First Lady Imelda R. Marcos in her ambition to hold as much positions in government as possible, has become a monster on its own and has dipped its hands into all affairs of the local governments. It had bloated the bureaucracy. It must be abolished, said Manila Rep. Joel Chua. To which I agree.

Rep. Joel Chua calls for abolition of MMDA

Firefighters rush to contain a fire that engulfed the Science building of the Leyte Normal University (LNU) at Paterno St., Tacloban City early this morning (June 08). 

FIRE HITS LEYTE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

Exactly a year since the Lower Chamber approved on third and final reading House Bill 8009 and passed the same for Senate's concurrence, the amended/expanded bill on violence against women and children languishes at the Upper Chamber - the Senate.


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