Secret Service agents deleted text messages sent and received around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol even after an inspector general requested them as part of an investigation into the insurrection, the government watchdog has found.
Social media posts claim to show an article by Canadian public broadcaster CBC attributing Dutch farmers' protests against environmental regulations to a militia group based in Canada. This is false; the CBC confirmed it never published such an article, and internet searches for the headline also do not find such a story."Omg these legacy news reporters are something else. Canada is the blame for farmers standing up for themselves! Give me a break," says a July 7, 2022, Facebook post.It includes
The Marcos admin says the National ID is essential for banking systems and the credit system. Here are some more details.
THE Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) announced that it lacked 330 million liters or 330,000 cubic meters of water supply per day to accommodate the needs of its consumers within its franchise area.MCWD serves Cebu City, Mandaue City, Lapu-Lapu City, Talisay City, and the towns of Consolacion, Liloan, Compostela and Cordova.Lawyer Jose Daluz III, chairman of the Board of Directors of MCWD, said the increase in demand for water due to the economic growth in Cebu has resulted in the lack of
Voters in Osun, a key state in Nigeria's southwest, will choose their governor for a four-year term on July 16, 2022. This marks the last major election before the country goes to the polls next February to elect a new president. Ahead of Saturday's ballot, several debates have been held among the leading candidates, including the two front runners — incumbent Adegboyega Oyetola of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). AFP Fact Che
AN ONLINE seller manufacturing fake Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) cards was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)-Central Visayas on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.Arrested was Lordelyn Viloria Caballero, a resident of Villabulcita, Barangay Bulacao, Cebu City.The suspect has been operating a t-shirt printing business and has an online page where she talks to customers.Lawyer Rennan Oliva, NBI-Central Visayas director, said Thursday, July 14,
Two Muslim politicians from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party will contest the 2023 general elections on a joint presidential ticket, a decision that has prompted some criticism. In response, a video of a Christian priest relating a kind act by a Muslim cleric has been published on Facebook with a claim that the sermon was effectively an endorsement of the APC’s candidates. However, the original footage makes no mention of politics or the elections and was filmed before the
He had already gone viral once before after photos of him parking his motorcycle by the side of the road to attend an online class made the rounds on social media
Janet Peremne dreamed of being a journalist, but ended up working more than 30 years as a helper for 10 different families in Singapore. Would she change a thing about it?
AN OFFICIAL of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB 7) assured that there is enough public utility vehicles (PUVs) in the region that will transport thousands of students when in-person classes start in November this year.LTFRB 7 Director Eduardo Montealto Jr. said there is enough modern public utility jeepneys (MPUJs), traditional jeepneys and buses that are plying routes to and from schools in the region.He said there are currently 1,195 modern PUJ
IN LIGHT of its recent rebranding, VisayasMed Hospital, formerly known as Visayas Community Medical Center (VCMC), held an appreciation month event for its Office of the Continuing Medical Education (Ocme) on July 7, 2022.It has also declared the month of July as the official Ocme appreciation month. The Ocme enables the training and development of residents in training and postgraduate interns.It has continued to prove its strive for excellence as it has produced a number of specialists who hav
AT LEAST nine out of 79 private schools in Lapu-Lapu City have shut down their operations for the school year 2021-2022.Dr. Wilfreda Bongalos, DepEd Lapu-Lapu City division superintendent, told SunStar Cebu on Thursday, July 14, 2022, that only 70 private schools continued their operations amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, 14 of which have joined the implementation of limited face-to-face classes since March this year.She said the low number of enrollees and the capacity for onli
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times in early July 2022 claim the World Bank warned Thailand's economy was on the verge of collapse after being battered during the pandemic. This is false. The World Bank told AFP it had not issued such a warning and it predicted last month that the kingdom's economy would grow over the next three years as private consumption and tourism recovers. Independent economists said the country's economy is not currently at risk of bankruptcy despite challeng
As monsoon rains lashed Pakistan in July, footage of a passenger plane taxiing on a flooded runway was viewed tens of thousands of times in Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim it was filmed "live" at Karachi airport. But the clip was shared in a misleading context: it has circulated in reports since August 2020 about flooding at Karachi airport.The 14-second video was viewed more than 30,000 times after it was shared on Facebook on July 11.It shows a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA
THE price of fuel in the world market and the peso-dollar exchange rate have pushed residential electricity rates up by P0.65 for the July-August billing month of Visayan Electric customers.The average rate for residential customers is now at P14.35 per kilowatt hour (kWh) or a P130 increase for customers with an average monthly electricity consumption of 200 kWh.Prices of fuel products, such as coal, have been increasing mainly due to supply concerns because of the reopening of economies all ov
Teachers are said to be the second parents of their students. It is imperative that they teach the young ones well and their actions must be worth emulating.It is a teacher’s duty to do good for their students; in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, the imperative good is to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.Teachers who have been vaccinated must be applauded—they added an extra layer of protection for themselves, and they have set themselves as role models for a community that believes in
Insecurity in northern Nigeria hit close to home for the country’s leader Muhammadu Buhari on July 6, 2022, when suspected terrorists ambushed members of his presidential convoy as it was travelling to his hometown of Daura. While officials confirmed the incident, no pictures were released. But at least two Facebook accounts published images of bullet-riddled vehicles, claiming they were from the scene of the attack. This is misleading: the photos show previous and unrelated incidents from other
STRENGTHENING Mandaue City's nutritional campaigns and making the city malnourished-free.These were discussed in the two-day nutrition forum conducted by the Mandaue City Heath Office (MCHO).Josephine Aniñon, Nutrition Officer IV of the MCHO, told reporters that improving the city's ways of defeating malnutrition is one of the primary agenda discussed during the first day of the nutrition forum held at the Mandaue City Sports and Cultural Complex in Barangay Centro, on Thursday, July 14, 2022.Th
Shortly after Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while on the campaign trail, a photo circulated in multiple Chinese-language social media posts that claim it shows a Japanese news anchor smiling as he announced the politician's death. In fact, the photo has in fact been digitally altered. The Japanese anchor did not smile at any point in the original news segment, which aired on July 8, 2022. The anchor's Japanese television station told AFP it did not air any such broadc
TEENAGERS comprised most of the registrants for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) in Mandaue City, said the Commission on Elections (Comelec).Lawyer Anna Fleur Abelgas-Gujilde, Election Officer IV of Comelec Mandaue, told reporters on Thursday, July 14, 2022, that about 1/3 of their registration turnouts came from teenagers 15 to 17 years old who were applicants for the SK elections.Abelgas-Gujilde said that from July 4 to 13, the Comelec yielded about 3,091 registered voter
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama has called for a review of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD’s) plan to impose additional water tariffs on July 1, 2023.In a statement Thursday, July 14, 2022, Rama called MCWD’s proposed 60 percent planned increase “abrupt” and “rather unreasonable,” given that Cebu is still recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and recent calamities.“I ask the MCWD Board to further review its planned imposition of new tariff and consider seeking adjustments,