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Pam Baricuatro
Pamela "Pam" Silagan Baricuatro (born November 9, 1966) is a Filipino politician and philanthropist who has served as the 27th governor of Cebu since 2025. A member of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP), she is the founder of the Visayas-based food bank Simply Share Foundation. Baricuatro is a graduate of the University of San Carlos. She pursued legal studies at the University of the Visayas before dropping out to work as a flight attendant for Cathay Pacific. She founded the Simply Share Foundation in 2015 and later served as a board executive of the Landbank Resource and Development Corporation during the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. In 2025, Baricuatro ran for governor of Cebu under the PDP banner. She positioned herself as an ally of former President Duterte and received endorsements from personalities identified with his camp. Though her campaign had limited political machinery, she defeated incumbent Governor Gwendolyn Garcia in an upset victory. Garcia later co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwendolyn Garcia
Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia-Codilla (born October 12, 1955) is a Filipino politician who has served as the 24th governor of Cebu since 2019. She previously held the position from 2004 to 2013 and served as the representative for Cebu's third district from 2013 to 2019, during which she served as a house deputy speaker from 2016 to 2018 Early life and education Garcia was born on October 12, 1955. She is the eldest daughter of former Cebu Governor and House Deputy Speaker Pablo P. Garcia and Judge Esperanza "Inday" Fiel García. Her youngest brother, Pablo John Garcia, is a lawyer-congressman.Profile, Pablo Garcia congress.gov.ph. Accessed 30 July 2022. Another brother, Byron Garcia, has been a security consultant for the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon Odette
Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Odette, was a deadly and extremely destructive super typhoon, which was the second costliest typhoon in Philippine history behind Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Rai was a powerful rare tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in mid-December 2021. Rai became the first Category 5-equivalent super typhoon to develop in the month of December since Nock-ten in 2016, and the third of four Category 5 super typhoons recorded in the South China Sea, along with Pamela in 1954, Rammasun in 2014 and Yagi in 2024. Rai, named after an artifact called ''Rai stones'', is the 22nd and final named tropical storm, the ninth typhoon, and the fifth super typhoon of the 2021 Pacific typhoon season. The system originated from a tropical disturbance near the equator on December 10, forming near the site of another low-pressure area that had dissipated on the previous day. Conditions around the system were favorable for further development, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeylet Avanceña
Cielito "Honeylet" Salvador Avanceña (born February 17, 1970) is a Filipina businesswoman who is the domestic partner of Rodrigo Duterte, the 16th President of the Philippines (in office from 2016 to 2022). Avanceña and Duterte have been in a relationship since as early as 1996 and have a daughter together. Although she was ''de facto'' spouse of the president of the Philippines, she was not designated as First Lady during Duterte's presidency. Nonetheless, she served the duties of First Lady during state banquets. Biography Avanceña first met Rodrigo Duterte shortly after she participated in the 1988 ''Mutya ng Dabaw'' pageant where she finished as first runner-up. Avanceña worked as a nurse in the United States for four years. She returned to Davao shortly after her daughter Veronica was born in the United States in 2004. She joined her partner's presidential campaign in Luzon during the run-up to the 2016 elections. Prior to Duterte's presidency, Avanceña ran several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cebu Daily News
The ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' (''PDI''), or simply the ''Inquirer'', is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines. Founded in 1985, it is often regarded as the Philippines' newspaper of record. The newspaper is the most awarded broadsheet in the Philippines and the multimedia group, called The Inquirer Group, reaches 54 million people across several platforms. History The ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' was founded on December 9, 1985, by publisher Eugenia Apóstol, columnist Max Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte during the last days of, and becoming one of the first private newspapers to be established under the Marcos regime. The ''Inquirer'' succeeded the weekly ''Philippine Inquirer'', created in 1985 by Apostol to cover the trial of 25 soldiers accused of complicity in the assassination of opposition leader Ninoy Aquino at Manila International Airport on August 21, 1983. Apostol also published the '' Mr. & Ms. Special Edition'', a weekly tabloid oppose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DuterTen
DuterTen (stylized as Duter10 or Duter–Ten) is a major opposition coalition for the 2025 Philippine Senate election. It was formed to oppose the Presidency of Bongbong Marcos, Marcos administration-backed Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas and support the senatorial candidates allied with former President Rodrigo Duterte. The DuterTen is headed by Partido Demokratiko Pilipino, which formed coalition agreements with Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma and Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan. Etymology The coalition's name, ''DuterTen'', is a portmanteau of "Duterte" and the number "ten", referring to the senatorial candidates endorsed and supported by former president Rodrigo Duterte. History Formation On September 20, 2024, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino formed an alliance with Partido para sa Demokratikong Reporma, Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan and Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte–National Executive Coordinating Committee (MRRD–NECC) for the 2025 Philippine Senate elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakbang Ng Maisug
Hakbang ng Maisug () is a Filipino organization, only started as a peace rally movement supporting Rodrigo Duterte, Rodrigo and Sara Duterte. Also, it condemns the governance of Dutertes' former ally President Bongbong Marcos. Rallies Additional nationwide protests, were held in Dumaguete, Tagum, and Angeles, Pampanga, Angeles by Duterte and Quiboloy's supporters, who voiced their grievances against the Marcos administration. Particularly among these grievances included their opposition to 2024 constitutional reform attempts in the Philippines, proposed constitutional amendments and to the increased US military presence in the country, as well as denouncement of perceived censorship under the administration. In one of the rallies, Duterte notably accused Marcos of plotting to extend his term beyond the current term limit of the Constitution and of being a drug addict, to which Marcos responded by alleging Duterte's previous use of fentanyl as painkiller impaired his judgment; Duter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cebu's 3rd Congressional District
Cebu's 3rd congressional district is one of the seven congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Cebu. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1916 and earlier in the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1916. The district consists of the city of Toledo, Cebu, Toledo and adjacent western municipalities of Aloguinsan, Asturias, Cebu, Asturias, Balamban, Barili, Pinamungajan and Tuburan, Cebu, Tuburan since 1987. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress of the Philippines, 19th Congress by Pablo John Garcia of the National Unity Party (Philippines), National Unity Party (NUP) and One Cebu (1-Cebu). Prior to its second dissolution in 1972, it consisted of the city of Talisay, Cebu, Talisay and the east-central municipalities of Carcar, Minglanilla, Cebu, Minglanilla, Naga, Cebu, Naga, and San Fernando, Cebu, San Fernando. Representation history Election results 2022 2019 2016 2013 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives Of The Philippines
The House of Representatives (; '','' thus commonly referred to as ''Kamara'') is the lower house of Congress of the Philippines, Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, with the Senate of the Philippines as the upper house. The lower house is commonly Totum pro parte, referred to as Congress, although the term collectively refers to both houses. Members of the House are officially styled as ''representatives'' () and are sometimes informally called ''congressmen'' or ''congresswomen'' (). They are elected to a three-year term and can be re-elected, but cannot serve more than three consecutive terms without an interruption of one term (e.g. serving one term in the Senate ''ad interim''). Around 80% of congressmen are district representatives, representing specific geographical areas. The 19th Congress has 253 Congressional districts of the Philippines, congressional districts. Party-list representatives, who make up not more than twenty percent of the total number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Duterte
Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio (, ; born May 31, 1978), commonly known as Inday Sara, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who is the 15th and current vice president of the Philippines. She is the third female vice president (after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Leni Robredo), and the third vice president to come from Mindanao, and the youngest vice president in Philippine history. A daughter of the 16th president Rodrigo Duterte, she previously served as the mayor of Davao City from 2016 to 2022, and from 2010 to 2013. She was also Davao City's vice mayor from 2007 to 2010. Duterte graduated from San Pedro College, initially aiming to pursue a medical career. She attended classes in the College of Law of San Beda College and eventually graduated in San Sebastian College – Recoletos. She was elected as Davao City's vice mayor in 2007, before eventually being elected as the city's mayor from 2010 until 2013, succeeding her father and becoming the youngest and the first female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidency Of Rodrigo Duterte
Rodrigo Duterte's six-year tenure as the List of presidents of the Philippines, 16th President of the Philippines began Inauguration of Rodrigo Duterte, on June 30, 2016, succeeding Benigno Aquino III. He was the first president from Mindanao, the first president to have worked in all three branches of government, and the oldest to be elected. He won 2016 Philippine presidential election, the election amid growing frustration with post-People Power Revolution, EDSA governance that favored elites over ordinary Filipinos. His tenure ended on June 30, 2022. Duterte began Philippine Drug War, a crackdown on illegal drugs and corruption in the Philippines, corruption, leading to a reduction in drug proliferation which caused the deaths of 6,600 people. His administration States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, withdrew the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the court launched a preliminary examination into alleged crimes ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Bureau Of Investigation (Philippines)
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI; ) is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Justice, responsible for handling and solving major high-profile cases that are in the interest of the nation. The NBI was modelled after the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when it was being established. History The Division of Investigation, later renamed the National Bureau of Investigation, came into existence on June 19, 1947, the date Republic Act No. 157 was approved. Its history goes back to November 13, 1936, when a Division of Investigation (DI) under the Department of Justice was created with the enactment of Commonwealth Act No. 181 by the First National Assembly. Section 1, C.A. No. 181 provides: A Division of Investigation under the Department of Justice is hereby created. It shall be composed of such personnel as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of Justice, and its duties shall be to help in the detection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Navy
The Philippine Navy (PN) () is the naval warfare service branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It has an estimated strength of 24,500 active service personnel, including the 10,300-strong Philippine Marine Corps. It operates 91 combat vessels, 16 auxiliary vessels, 25 manned aircraft and 8 unmanned aerial vehicles. Tracing its roots from the Philippine Revolutionary Army, Philippine Revolutionary Navy on May 20, 1898, while its modern foundations were created during the creation of the Offshore Patrol on February 9, 1939, the PN is currently responsible for naval warfare operations and maritime patrol missions within the Philippine Waters, as well as ensuring the protection of the Philippine's maritime interests, including the South China Sea and Benham Rise. It shares the responsibility of patrolling the maritime borders with the Philippine Coast Guard, a formerly attached unit which became a separate maritime law enforcement agency in 1998. The PN is also responsible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
