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CHIKA WRAPPED: Hindi invited si Daniel, ‘Brandagulan’ sa Showtime and more!
PANIBAGONG linggo, panibagong chika! Ngunit knows niyo bang last week ay punumpuno ng pang-iintriga ang showbiz world? Mula sa hindi pag-invite sa dating kaibigan hanggang sa ‘brandagulan’ sa It’s Showtime, sure na sure na busog-lusog ang mga Marites ng bayan. Narito ang Top 7 Pasabog na Chika na bumandera all over the universe nitong January.....»»
Produksiyon ni Ms. Baby Go, muling bibigyang-sigla ang movie industry ngayong 2024
ALAM MO NA!ni Nonie Nicasio ISANG bonggang pre-New Year party ang inihandog ni Ms. Baby Go sa kanyang mga kaibigan sa business sector at entertainment media bago nagtapos ang 2023. Busog sa kasiyahan ang lahat ng bisita ni Madam Baby, hindi lang sa pagkain kundi sa raffle prizes at parlor games, lalo na ang showbiz press sa pampasuwerteng gift ng lady ….....»»
DSWD joins hands with Gadon
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will coordinate with the Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation Lorenzo Gadon to enforce initiatives to tackle poverty within the country, Secretary Rex Gatchalian said on Tuesday. In an interview with Palace reporters, Gatchalian said he met with Gadon earlier this week after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appointed the latter as the anti-poverty czar. “We had a meeting the other day, it was our baseline meeting. He had some ideas, but what’s important is that we are having discussions. He has some broad ideas since he is still setting up his office,” Gatchalian said. “The Department of Social Welfare and Development has conveyed that we are prepared to align our efforts with his projects,” he added. He also mentioned that Gadon’s post is separate from the agency’s functions as many offices should be involved in addressing poverty as he explained that solving the poverty problem on one or two agencies in the country is challenging given the vastness and magnitude issue. Last month, Gatchalian said he would look into integrating and streamlining Gadon’s planned “Batang Busog, Malusog” feeding program with the DSWD’s core anti-poverty efforts. Meantime, Gadon said that he will coordinate closely with government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders “to design and implement comprehensive programs to address the root causes of poverty.” The post DSWD joins hands with Gadon appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Gatchalian, Gadon discuss anti-poverty initiatives
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will coordinate with the Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation Lorenzo "Larry" Gadon" to enforce initiatives to tackle poverty within the country, Secretary Rex Gatchalian said on Tuesday. In an interview with Palace reporters, Gatchalian said he met with Gadon earlier this week after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appointed the latter as the antipoverty czar. "We had a meeting the other day, it was our baseline meeting. He had some ideas, but what's important is that we are having discussions. He has some broad ideas since he is still setting up his office," Gatchalian said. "The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has conveyed that we are prepared to align our efforts with his projects," Gatchalian added. He also mentioned that Gadon's post is separate from the agency's functions as many offices should be involved in addressing poverty. Gatchalian explained that solving the poverty problem on one or two agencies in the country is challenging given the vastness and magnitude issue. Last month, Gatchalian said he would look into integrating and streamlining Gadon's planned "Batang Busog, Malusog" feeding program with the DSWD's core anti-poverty efforts. In a Palace statement, Gadon will coordinate closely with government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders "to design and implement comprehensive programs to address the root causes of poverty. The post Gatchalian, Gadon discuss anti-poverty initiatives appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Michael Ted Macapagal: Making tracks in public service
If life were a train, then Michael Ted Macapagal’s has been quite a ride. Raised by a labor leader and human rights lawyer father who served the people of Olongapo, including the workers of the US American Base in Subic, Michael Ted Macapagal had always wanted to become a public servant. It took Ted, though, a long journey to reach his goal, first achieving success in the insurance field in the United States where he lived for 20 years starting in 1991. Today, he is the chairman of the Philippine National Railways, a position “that allows me to make a difference in the lives of my countrymen,” he shared during his recent visit to the Daily Tribune office in Makati. Ted, good-looking and affable, proudly spoke of a father, his namesake, Atty. Teddy C. Macapagal who, early on, exposed his son to a firsthand view of a gentleman who looked beyond himself and his personal interests, and instead dedicated his career to protecting the common man and bettering their lot. The elder Ted served as a city councilor for 10 years. In 1984, he ran for the Batasang Pambansa, and in the late 1980s, for city mayor. “In all these electoral processes, I was involved and saw for myself how my father related to the people. He was a sincere man who helped them in the best way he could. He provided free legal services to those in need,” Ted recounted. Ted grew up in Olongapo, his place of birth. It was in the neighboring province of Pampanga, though, at the Don Bosco Institute in Bacolor town, where he first studied, but he eventually returned home to Olongapo, where he finished high school at the St. Columban. Aiming to become a lawyer, he enrolled at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, where he majored in History, which he intended as his pre-law course. Not unexpectedly, he joined the Upsilon Sigma Phi, his father’s fraternity. He also joined rallies where he stood with those who wanted the retention of US bases in the Philippines, in keeping with the sentiments of his townsmen. “It was the one concern where the whole of Olongapo was united,” he recalled, “because the people’s livelihood was connected to the base and the American presence in the community.” As a lawyer who specialized in labor, his father himself handled cases for the base employees. In 1988, his father lost his mayoralty bid in Olongapo. He fought against his fraternity brother, Richard Gordon. Actually, the two had been fighting it out for decades. “Olongapo became too small for them,” shared Ted. “A vivid memory to me to this day was the night I cried after my father lost. I was heartbroken because, for the most part of my life, I saw him give his all to the people. Throughout all those years, I just loved assisting my father. I followed him whenever he visited his constituents. I was a witness to everything that happened to him, his conflict with his political adversary and the loyalty of the people who believed in him and saw in him the man who would change the face of politics in our city.” The elder Macapagal became OIC-Mayor in 1986, but only two months after he received his appointment from the new president because the incumbent mayor did not easily give up his post which he was required to vacate under the new revolutionary government. “The next local election was the most expensive political exercise that our family ever waged,” Ted recounted. “It was then that my father decided that I pursue a new life in the United States, away from politics back home. “All the while, my heart never left the Philippines. Even before I left, I promised myself I would return to continue what my father started.” First non-white president Ted stayed in San Francisco for 20 long years. He had a tough time at the beginning of his new life. “I started off doing odd jobs. I worked as a security guard, janitor and waiter in a pizza parlor. “I also guarded the heavy equipment in a construction site in San Francisco. Thievery was a problem in that kind of situation. We would sleep in a trailer. “I transferred to a construction firm because I found out it offered a bigger salary. But I didn’t know the technical aspects of construction. Once, I made a portable ladder, but it fell apart, for which I was scolded by the owner of the company. I was fired on my third day on the job. Too bad because it paid high.” Ted then decided to pursue another degree, one that would be more useful in the United States. He took up Human Resource Management, a four-year course at the University of California in Berkeley. When he finally entered the corporate world, his first job was as a clerk. It wasn’t long before he became Division President of Stewart Title Company, one of the largest underwriters in the world, with offices across the United States, and in some 80 countries around the globe. He was based in the San Francisco Bay Area. “I may have been the first non-white president,” he said. “And I was a division president for the whole of North America. I was the first Filipino to reach that level.” Of his trailblazing accomplishments, he shared, “I was able to bring cultural diversity to the company, which enhanced its value. I got the top post because I asked for a meeting with the president. I told him we were not diverse enough to appeal to the non-white clients, and there were many of them who were first-time home buyers. Then, I told him to make the rounds. He would see that none of the home buyers was white. They were of different ethnic groups. I told him that if he appointed me as vice president, I would give him multi-cultural buyers because I would appeal to them and they would be our first-time buyers. So, he appointed me, and one month later, he made me president.” As an adjunct, he lectured on the topic of title insurance and escrow procedures in several community colleges in and around the San Franciso Bay Area. Through it all, he chose to keep his Filipino citizenship. The ‘Railway President’ For all the successes he was enjoying, the Philippines beckoned. He felt he still had a mission to accomplish. “My father was surprised. He asked me why I would still want to go home when I was doing well in the States. I insisted, so I came back and I plunged into political life. I worked on difficult campaigns, like the one for Rodrigo Duterte.” Back to his first love and passion, the political arena, he was in his element and served as president of PDP LABAN in Olongapo City from 2016 to 2021. In 2022, he joined LAKAS-CMD as its local chairman. This engagement led to his original target, as his father had achieved in his lifetime — serving the people. This time, he would be appointed to key posts in the government. He became director of the Clark Board and Gulf Oil Philippines. He took his oath of office as chairman of the Philippine National Railways on 28 April 2023. It is a job in a government agency where he is confident “I could make a difference because I can see that President Bongbong Marcos is really intent on improving the railway system of the country. “On my part, I want to make a difference. I want to be able to contribute whatever I can to help the president to achieve that objective. I call him now the ‘Railway President’ because I consider him the father of the railway system in our country.” Of course, he noted that many plans have been formulated during the time of President Rodrigo Duterte. Moreover, he recognized that President Gloria Arroyo “navigated our country through the global crisis. I was in the United States when the global economic crisis happened, and the Philippines was one of the countries spared, and I give credit to her. The economic fundamentals were very strong during her time. Being an economist, she was there at the right time when the country needed her the most.” With President BBM at the helm, he is confident “we will be able to push through with our development plan and finish the projects we have started, like the North-South Commuter Railway, which is a 147-kilometer stretch from Clark to Laguna. We hope to have the dry run in 2026 and it will be fully operational in 2027.” He also looks forward to the completion of the Bicol South Long Haul project. He is equally hopeful for the North Long Haul, the Subic-Clark and the Mindanao railways. He clarified that “we are now talking with the proponents, while some negotiations are being undertaken.” Working boots and a hard hat It would seem that this successful insurance executive was out of place in the railway sector. He pointed out, though, that “coming from the outside, I have the technical advantage of being able to look outside the box. So, I’m looking at it from outside the box, looking in. I am able to see the problems that need to be fixed. Stoppage is one of the problems so we have a bus augmentation program. We will also deploy UV Express units. We are closely coordinating with the LTFRB to provide emergency alternative transportation.” On the other hand, his exposure to people of all backgrounds from his youth, being his father’s son, has given him the advantage of “knowing how it is to be one of the boys. Something that I also experienced in the United States. “When people ask me what my management style is, I tell them straight I like to go down to the ground. I like hands-on supervision. I want my hands to be dirty. If you open the trunk of my car, you will find my working boots and my hard hat. I enjoy going to the construction sites and seeing for myself the progress, the problems, whatever it is that needs to be attended to. “Finally I want those working in the field doing the most difficult tasks to be satisfied and never to be hungry. Gusto ko, busog sila lagi. I am not happy when I get invited by the constructors and I am honored with a feast-like lunch or dinner, and not knowing what the workers are eating. I am on a diet anyway, so I make sure that my hosts bring the food to where the workers are eating. I can only eat so much and I would rather that the workers and the staff are full and happy. I am vocal about my displeasure when the construction workers are not eating the same food that is served to me. I may not be able to invite them to where I am eating but I can have the food brought to them.” Smiling from heaven Without a doubt, the old man Atty. Teddy C. Macapagal is smiling happily from his heavenly perch. He had served his fellowmen well, but he had done right as well by raising a son who took after his heart, to whom service to the people and compassion for the less fortunate matter more than any personal gain. His father, according to Ted, “died a broken man at the young age of 63. But whatever he lacked in longevity and riches, he made up for it with his compassion for others, for the free legal services that he gave to the people of Olongapo. “If you didn’t have money, you went to him because he was generous with his time and expertise. He would even give you some cash to use for your transportation fare to go home. That was my father. “The people whom he helped in turn would come to our home and bring him gifts like eggs, fruits, fish, vegetables and native chickens that they raised in their backyards. My father accepted them all. When I came home and saw all this, I teased him and said that he should probably open a sari-sari store so he could resell them. “Of course, we had a good laugh. But beyond the laughter, we both knew in our hearts that doing good to one’s fellowmen is its own reward and nothing in this world can take the place of personal fulfillment for having put a smile on people’s faces because you somehow made their lives better. “I am grateful that I have been raised by such a great father.” The post Michael Ted Macapagal: Making tracks in public service appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Gadon to launch anti-hunger program
To address malnutrition in the country, newly appointed presidential adviser on poverty alleviation Larry Gadon will seek the support of the private sector for the government’s anti-hunger program dubbed “BBM” or “Batang Busog Malusog.”.....»»
Poverty adviser bares feeding project
Newly-appointed poverty alleviation adviser Larry Gadon on Tuesday said a feeding program for young people is among his first projects to boost youth education. “If they (youth) have complete nutrients in their bodies, their focus on education will improve, and if they have a good education, that will lead to a bright future for them,” Gadon said in the Laging Handa press briefing where he bared the “BBM: Batang Busog, Malusog” project. Gadon said he will encourage big companies and businessmen to “adopt” a public school in their areas and sponsor the BBM there as part of their corporate social responsibility. Gadon also said that he will focus on strengthening micro-industries to provide jobs for Filipinos. “If we want to lift our fellow countrymen, especially those in the lower socio-economic strata, out of poverty, let us provide them with employment opportunities to sustain their livelihoods. By doing so, we can uplift them from poverty,” he said. Meanwhile, Gadon said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. must have given him a government position because of his experience in the corporate world. He mentioned his extensive background in various industries such as manufacturing, hotel and restaurant, healthcare administration, real estate and development and construction. Appointed on Monday, Gadon said he will work closely with government agencies, non-governmental organizations and other stakeholders to develop and execute comprehensive programs aimed at addressing the underlying causes of poverty. The post Poverty adviser bares feeding project appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Whamos takes his family to the `Happiest Place on Earth’
Whamos Cruz and his family finally got to see Hong Kong Disneyland on the last day of their visit to the territory which had just re-opened its doors to tourists. “Ang ganda! Busog na busog ang mga mata namin dito, mga par,” said Whamos on his latest YouTube vlog. Due to rains, Whamos, his fiancée Antonette and infant son Meteor pushed back their visit to the “Happiest Place on Earth.” “Dahil last day na namin dito sa Hong Kong, pupunta kami ng Disneyland at sure na sure na,” Whamos said. “Noong mga nakaraang araw kasi, hindi kami nakapunta ng Disneyland gawa ng sobrang lakas ng ulan. Siyempre hindi kami makakapag-enjoy noon kaya nagpunta na lang kami ng mall noon at kung saan-saan pa kami nagpunta noon” he added. There, the young family enjoyed the rides and the rest of the famous theme park. The post Whamos takes his family to the `Happiest Place on Earth’ appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Sexton ‘busog’ agad sa Jazz
BINIGYAN agad ng Jazz ng dambuhalang kontrata si Collin Sexton pagkatapos mai-trade sa Utah para kay Donovan Mitchell na napunta sa Cleveland. The post Sexton ‘busog’ agad sa Jazz first appeared on Abante......»»
Schools Now Part of SugBusog Program
The Cebu provincial government has tapped into schools, including them into the SugBusog Program to help combat hunger in the region. Governor Gwendolyn Garcia led the launching of the “SugBusog sa Eskuwelahan Program” at the Cebu Provincial Capitol, to help promote backyard gardening in schools. The program is part of the “SugBusog: Sugboanong Busog Luwas […].....»»
Julia, Carlo kumasa na sa taping sa Japan, magtatambal sa ‘Hold Me Close’
MULING magpapakilig sina Julia Barretto at Carlo Aquino sa kanilang fans! Magkakaroon kasi sila ng reunion movie na “Hold Me Close” mula sa direksyon ni Jason Paul Laxamana. Sa kasalukuyan, sila ay nasa bansang Japan upang umpisahan na ang paggawa ng pelikula. Sa isang Instagram post, ibinandera ng Viva Films ang ilang posters at isang.....»»