The head of the Liga ng mga Barangay in Antique has urged her peers to exert strong political will in carrying out the "four o’clock habit" to stop the threat of dengue.
The traditional dragon boat's heads and tails will now be replaced by the golden heads and tails of the “Kugtong”—Cagayan de Oro's mythical water creature.
Some 100 personnel from the Bureau of Fire Protection and the Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center were deployed to Abra to assist victims of the magnitude 7 earthquake.