Kuya Kim Atienza nagpaalam na sa TV Patrol

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The personalities, the entertainment, the icons & the culture that shaped us, are slowly fading.

Kuya Kim leaving ABSCBN, Disney Channel signing off, our favorite cartoon actors dying left and right. nakakalungkot din noh?

Kuya Kim Atienza delivers his last weather forecast on TV Patrol this Friday as he bids farewell on the network.

Kuya Kim Atienza nagpaalam na sa TV Patrol.

"For the last time, hanggang sa huling pagkakataon, ang buhay ay weather-weather lang

Hanggang sa muli, Kapamilya."

What hurts more than break-up? ICONS of ABS-CBN leaving the network.

Matanglawin and Weather Weather lang is waving for farewell. I know Kuya Kim did it for the good. He has a family to feed. But I just can't help it. This is so heartbreaking.

Kuya Kim Atienza is a huge part of my childhood. From early morning trivias, Matanglawin and weather forecast every night. It's just heartbreaking to see him say "Ang buhay ay weather-weather Lang" one last time. 

You can feel how sincere he is on his farewell message. You can see how thankful he is to his second home for 17 years, ABS-CBN, to the bashers of Kuya Kim that’s LOYALTY. 

Though I'm still happy for him to going to Kapuso network...  

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New home, new shows and continue what you’ve started now as a Kapuso Kuya Kim‼️Welcome to GMA-7!

I wonder how this network loyalty by viewers started, Kapamilya kapuso or whatever. When i was growing up, televiewers watch all channels as long as they were entertained. Now, it seemed only one channel can please a televiewer. Funny!

Yah I feel you! I believe even a solid Kapuso will feel the same kung si Mike Enriquez or Jessica Soho ay lilipat ng istasyon. Kasi yon na ang nakasanayan natin. But I think nakaka refresh din tignan kung lalabas si Kuya Kim sa GMA-7. Kaya still do support him.

Are you still so mad at the people who denied the network's franchise? Dapat Lang! We should never, never forgive the Duterte administration for what they did to ABS-CBN.

Ewan ko kung ako lang ha? Kasi importante sa akin ang loyalty at utang na loob eh. Kung ang isang kumpanya ay madaming opportunity ba binigay sa akin at doon ako nakilala, natuto at nagkaroon,  hindi ko yan iiwan sa panahong down siya. Kasi siguro naman may ipon ako para makatawid sa araw araw.

Ok lang yan... Siguro 1 year na lang, balik na kayo. Kapit lang kapamilya.

Still part of the aftermath of the non-renewal of franchise. This hurts more than that actress' transfer. Hindi siya magiging Kuya Kim kung hindi dahil sa ABS-CBN, at kay Ernie Baron. Good luck sa bagong show, and thank you for giving us educational information on free TV.

ABS-CBN's statement on Kim Atienza parting ways with the network. "All the best, Kuya Kim! Forever Kapamilya." 

TV Patrol will never be the same again without Kuya Kim…but like what he always says:

“Ang buhay ay weather-weather lang”

When the high tide goes out, he will be back. 

Kuya Kim leaving TV Patrol gave the same feeling I had when Noli de Castro left the show when he decided to run for VP. He'll come back soon. It is not like Ernie Baron retiring and making way for Kuya Kim Atienza. That said, who will fill in those boots?

Also, the new guy needs to have a good catchphrase. "Kung walang knowledge, wapang power. Buh-bye!" by Ernie Baron is still iconic. Walang makakatapat dyan.

JUST IN: TV Patrol has found a replacement in line with Kuya Kim's departure from the network's flagship newscast program.

Everyone: “Endgame is the crossover event of the century.”

Kuya Kim and Mang Tani on 24 Oras: 

But seriously, I hope, that with Kuya Kim’s departure from ABS-CBN, the company will train more journalists focused in the education and science beats. Can we quickly think of anybody who can/will replace him?

Matanglawin was a special program, perhaps the only educational tv show in free TV.

I remember a conversation back then, that the company seldom trains journalists as figures to be the next host/anchor. There are only special cases because of their following and recognizability. Maybe it’s high time they should train more people.

I know TV Patrol can still survive and will find a replacement for him soon. 

A heartbreak it is but we need to move on and adapt with the changes that is bound to happen. 

TV Patrol's farewell to Kuya Kim was indeed a tear-jerker. 

Must be really hard to leave a network that served as home, because as they always say, in ABS-CBN, they're all treated as family. All the best, Kuya Kim Atienza!

Pharmally's Krizle Grace Mago resurfaces at the House of Representatives

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After days of being out of reach since her bombshell admission that Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation allegedly swindled the government with expired face shields, Krizle Grace Mago resurfaced at the House of Representatives (HOR). 

Mago enters protective custody of Congress after she stopped attending and responding to the Senate following her revelations. 

During the Sept. 24 Senate hearing, Mago admitted to ordering Pharmally personnel to tamper with the expiration dates of face shields ordered by the government from their company.

Mago named Mohit Dargani, the company's corporate secretary and treasurer, as the one who ordered to change the certification stickers of face shields for frontliners.

Dargani denies giving the instructions.

Mago: I always follow instructions po but allow me to check our conversations. But generally, as an employee, I always follow instructions.

In a letter to Sen. Richard Gordon, House Committee on Good Govt Chairperson Mike Aglipay informs Senate Blue Ribbon Commitee (BRC) that Mago has been placed under the custody of the House.

Mago’s letter to House Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco requesting for protective custody. She expressed fears that her life and liberty are ‘in grave danger.’

Let's wait for the House's script to absolve Pharmally and Duterte.

For sure, they will influence Mago para bumaligtad and i-retract ang mga naunang salaysay.

Remember, nauna ng gusto palabasin ni Atty. Ferdinand Topacio na bayaran lang ang witness ni Sen. Risa Hontiveros.

Hontiveros on the House taking custody of Mago: I trust it will be a comfortable stay for her—but hopefully not too comfortable. Inter-parliamentary courtesy requires that I say nothing more. 

Mahirap na nilang mabura sa isip ng mga tao yan lalo ngayon na Election season, maglalabasan talaga ng baho yan, whether they like it or not 9 months na lang sila sa pwesto. Masyado ng halatang guilty Ang Pharmally at PS-DBM. And we all know that Congress is controlled by Duterte, just as how they ganged up.on ABS-CBN.

This is getting exciting. I wonder if Mago's going to totally change her testimony and now going to drop names of Senators who she will now accuse of coercing and forcing resource persons to lie and implicate Duterte and the DBM officials to corruption?

The house investigation is on the side of the administration as seen from how they seem to even help the former PS-DBM Undersecretary Christopher Lao to get away from accountability.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mago will recant her previous statements to the senate.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said the essence of whistleblowing can’t be “overstated” because it was the “single most important way that could bring wrongdoing to light.”

Mago is now under custody of Congress. She can be cited for contempt by the Senate BRC? The HOR cant stop her arrest, and if ever she contradicts her word in BRC, she can be charged for perjury! Please do it, senators! 

Sen. Francis Pangilinan: I understand the House of Representatives will make arrangements to make her (Mago) available should the Senate BRC requests for her presence so if true, then I do not see this as a problem.

Senate President Tito Sotto on Mago now under House protective custody

"Very good. As long as she is safe. Her testimony given in the Senate is more than enough. The people have heard her already. We were concerned for her safety."

One can surmise that Mago went to the House instead of the Senate because the House Leadership is still strongly connected to the President.

I think she will speak up she will reverse everything. The Duterte faction at the HOR is known for these strategy.

Parehong tuta ni Duterte ang minority at majority sa congress. Nabalita yan dati nag aaway away sila kasi wala ng check and balance, at si Boy Tattoo pa nga sana gagawin nila na speaker, kaya alam na magiging takbo niyan.

Tiba tiba mga tongressman, Sulit talaga investment ni Michael Yang. The plot thickens.

WWF celebrates a decade of sustainable fisheries work in the PH with book launch

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Bangkulis: Tuna Tales from Hook to Cook follows handline tuna fishers from the Lagonoy Gulf and Mindoro Strait on a decade-long journey toward environmental sustainability. 

A decade of sustainable fisheries work brings hope to the future of our seas.

The World Wide Fund for Nature launched Bangkulis: Tuna Tales from Hook to Cook, a coffee table book commemorating a decade of sustainable fisheries work in the Philippines in a virtual event held on October 1, 2021. 

Set in the yellowfin tuna fisheries of the Lagonoy Gulf and Mindoro Strait, the book details the fisherfolk’s 10-year journey to environmental sustainability. The book follows small-scale fishers and how they have organized themselves toward protecting and uplifting their livelihoods.

In 2011, WWF began working with handline yellowfin tuna fishers in Lagonoy Gulf and Mindoro Strait. A Fisheries Improvement Project was launched - a multi-stakeholder program that aims for the environmental sustainability of fisheries.

A little over a decade of work has brought many wins for these fisheries, both in terms of the management of yellowfin tuna stocks and the empowerment of the handline fishers themselves. 

Bangkulis: Tuna Tales from Hook to Cook presents these wins, and the effort that went into achieving them.

“Our partner fishers are at the center of this story. They are the local leaders trying to safeguard the seas they rely on, and we have had the pleasure of watching them come together, empowered, constantly learning, so that they may better take care of their fisheries,” shared WWF-Philippines Project Manager Joann Binondo.

Binondo also reminds that these yellowfin tuna fisheries have a long way to go before they can claim to be environmentally sustainable. Despite this, the fishers remain committed to improving upon their practices and exploring better ways to safeguard their seas.

“A decade of hard work has gone into improving our fisheries. It has been difficult, but we have seen what this can mean for us - a sense of stability, for those of us whose lives depend on fishing,” shared Atenogenes Reaso, a fisher and chairman of the Gulf of Lagonoy Tuna Fishers Federation, Inc. 

 

Bangkulis: Tuna Tales from Hook to Cook will be available soon on WWF-Philippines website.