News Roundup 03 August 2024
Aug 03, 2024 • 4 min Read
Carlos Yulo wins floor exercise gold medal in Paris Olympics | INQUIRER.NET – Carlos Yulo successfully delivered Team Philippines’ first gold medal in the Paris Olympics 2024, ruling the men’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise final at Bercy Arena on Saturday night (Manila time).
Yulo tallied 15.000 points as the third gymnast competing in his pet apparatus, sufficient for a golden finish–the first of the country in this year’s Olympics and second overall after Hidilyn Diaz Naranjo’s breakthrough gold in Tokyo.
The 24-year-old Yulo edged, Dolgopyat, the defending champion at 14.966. Jake Jarman of Britain claimed the bronze with a 14.933.
Yulo stuck his triple-twisting dismount during his final tumbling pass. He stuck his arms out and roared inside a packed Bercy Arena before walking off the podium.
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3-minute police quick response to boost Davao City Emergency 911 | INQUIRERE.NET – DAVAO CITY — Davao Region police chief Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III said implementing the three-minute police response time here would greatly boost the efficiency of the city’s Emergency 911.
Torre’s comment came after the Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte, still outraged by the reassignment of 19 police station commanders here without his consent, slammed the Davao Region police chief’s pet project and even threatened to slap the police general.
Duterte, in his program, “Basta Dabawenyo,” said Torre’s three-minute police rule did not make any difference in Davao City. “He has already been here a month, what has his three-minute response done? Does it make much of a difference?” the mayor asked in Cebuano.
But Torre said that a fast police response time would perfectly complement the city’s emergency 911 and will further boost the city’s efficiency in responding to both manmade and natural calamities.
“What’s the use of a quick emergency 911 if police can’t be there on time?” Torre asked. “I think the mayor is just misinformed. Despite what the mayor already said, the police will continue to give the best service it can give to the city,” Torre said in an interview with reporters.
He also said that if the mayor wanted it, he could even upgrade the police response time from the three minutes he implemented in Quezon City to 2:45 minutes, which would make Davao City even the fastest responding police unit in the country.
Torre, however, is still currently activating the police’s integrated command control center (iC3), a P10 million project inside Camp Quintin Merecido here, which had not been used since it was turned over to the command in January this year as the station commanders whom he reassigned “did not want to use because it would mean additional work for them,” according to Torre.
With the use of gadgets and body cameras worn by responding policemen, the command control center through its numerous LCD screens and computers will be able to monitor in real time what’s going on in the ground during emergencies.
Full Story at: 3-minute police quick response to boost Davao City Emergency 911 (inquirer.net)
Marcos issues EO increasing salaries, benefits of gov’t employees | PHILSTAR.COM – MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos has issued an order increasing the wages and granting an additional allowance to government workers, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) announced on Saturday.
Executive Order (EO) 64, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on August 2 by authority of Marcos, is effective immediately upon its publication in the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation.
“Given the prevailing economic circumstances, including the erosion of purchasing power due to inflation, there is a need to update the salaries and benefits of government personnel in order to maintain a competent, committed, agile, and healthy workforce, thereby promoting social justice, integrity, efficiency, accountability, and excellence, and ultimately translating to increased productivity and higher-quality public service,” Marcos said.
The government workers’ salaries were last adjusted in 2023, when the fourth and final tranche of the modified salary schedule from the 2019 Salary Standardization Law was completed, according to the EO.
Full Story at: Marcos issues EO increasing salaries, benefits of gov’t employees | Philstar.com
Iran frees 3 Filipino seafarers from seized vessel | PHILSTAR.COM – MANILA, Philippines — The last three Filipino seafarers aboard the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, which was seized by Iranian authorities in April, have been released, according to the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW).
During a Saturday news forum, DMW Secretary Hans Cacdac announced that the seafarers have safely returned to the Philippines.
“Ang magandang ulat dito, hindi lang namin inanunsiyo pero quietly iyong tatlo na natira doon sa MSC Aries, that was seized by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard sa Strait of Hormuz ay nakauwi na – nakauwi na silang tatlo,” Cacdac said.
“The good news here, which we did not announce publicly but quietly, is that the three remaining crew members from the MSC Aries, which was seized by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz, have returned home – all three of them are now back.)
“Iyong tatlo nakauwi kamakailan lamang…noong mga Huwebes,” he added.
(The three of them returned home just recently… last Thursday.)
Full Story at: Iran frees 3 Filipino seafarers from seized vessel | Philstar.com
