By Rose de la Cruz

Even if there is still no power outage or brownouts of long intervals happening in Metro Manila, still the yellow alert from April 5 to June 13 should remind consumers not to be complacent and wasteful in their electric consumption.

Rep. Carlos Roman Uybarreta,1st Consumer Alliance for Rural Energy Inc. partylist and principal author of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (HB8629) said a yellow alert means it is better to conserve electricity than be sorry in a blackout.

Any sudden outage of a major power plant, any sudden surge in electricity…

Read more: Consumers told not to waste electricity

By Rose de la Cruz

Honesty is a virtue that is so rare in this materialistic-crazy world and where desire for more possessions become almost an obsession among most Filipinos.

But not with Security Guard Mario T. Gacang, who lived 34 of his life with Carmen Copper Company that operates a copper field in Toledo, Cebu within the concession area of what once was a premier, giant company called Atlas Mining.

In a Facebook post, Carmen Copper said Gacang’s integrity was recently put to the test when at 12:10 am of March 14, 2019 he…

Read more: Honesty, though rare, is still alive

By Rose de la Cruz

Beginning next year, registration for a national identification card will start after the PhilSys Policy and Coordination Council—in charge of the national ID law—has completed late February the guidelines detailing the four phases of project implementation from procurement of technology to issuing actual IDs.

In a March 14 press release, the National Economic and Development Authority said it had approved the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Implementation Plan.

“We are on-track as regards the roll-out of PhilSys. We hope to open the registration to targeted communities and release the first batch…

Read more: Rollout of National ID on track

By Boy Villasanta

 Exclusive!

 Filipino TV, film and stage actor/ tenor Miguel Castro is indeed going places.

After doing a series of local musical shows in multimedia platforms and acting in TV and movie drama, Castro is set to conquer the world via his new musical theater based on the classic novel of the Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere.”

Castro will portray the lead character Juan Crisostomo Ibarra in the Australia production of the literary gem adapted to foreign sensibilities in book and lyrics by Peter Fleming who is also…

Read more: Filipino tenor Miguel Castro is going places