Akbayan Youth warns WHO to watch out for Duque

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How did Secretary Duque, health chief of the country with the most number of COVID cases, get the top post of the World Health Organization in the region? The WHO needs to watch out for Secretary Duque, whose leadership saw thousands of people getting sick and billions of pesos missing from public coffers. Duque has no credibility to chair the regional WHO body especially when the country suffered so much because of his obscene failure to act early. If anything, this new post will only be a deodorizer for the embattled Duque. President Duterte's latest defense for Duque is yet another shameless attempt to coddle him from accountability for the failed pandemic response and the massive corruption scandals in Philhealth. The people want Duque to pay for his failures not for him to be pampered by the President.

Amid the pandemic, PHLPost celebrates World Post Day, October 09

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Today, October 9, the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) celebrates World Post Day by encouraging students online to write letters to their beloved teachers and held a one day Webinar activity for postal employees in the Central and Eastern Visayas region for the proper use of Filipino, the country’s national language on government official correspondence.

Amid the pandemic, through distant learning activity, the postal service goal is to effectively promote the value of gratitude to teachers who have done most, apart from their parents in shaping their future to become better persons in society.

The online seminar will focus on the proper use of the Filipino language in PHLPost official transactions, communications and correspondences, as well as public service undertakings.

Aside from this, PHLPost has released special stamps honoring frontline workers who have been involved in the battle against Covid-19. PHLPost pays tribute to our frontline heroes for doing their jobs even if they are at risk of being inflicted with the virus.

World Post Day was declared by the 1969 Universal Postal Congress in Tokyo as a means to mark the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) creation in 1874.

The purpose of World Post Day is to bring awareness to the postal service’s role in everyday lives of people and businesses, as well as its contribution to global social and economic development.



Still relevant in the communication industry, PHLPost is the duly designated national postal operator in the Philippines which has the manpower and the network capability to deliver mails, goods and payment services anywhere in the country and around the world. The postal service is an active member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the primary forum for cooperation of more than192 postal sector players in the world.

200-Day Countdown to Quincentennial Begins

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On 9 October 2020, Friday, at 6 p.m., the National Quincentennial Committee (NQC) will mark the 200-day countdown to the 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines (2021 QCP). Daily countdown will commence thereon through fan signs assigned to various government agencies, private institutions, and sectors in society.

The Lapu-Lapu City Government and the National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) will lead the country in simultaneous illumination of the Lapulapu Monument at the Liberty Shrine, Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City and the Rizal National Monument at Rizal Park, Manila at 6 p.m. It will be streamed online via government pages through the Presidential Communications Operations Office. No public program is set.

In 2021, the country will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Victory at Mactan, the Philippine part in the first circumnavigation of the world, and other related events. For more information, visit www.nqc.gov.ph or follow and like www.facebook.com/nqc2021.