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(Journal Online) According to Fr. Tito Caluag, Caritas Philippines consultant for development programs, “the program aims to respond to the growing unemployment and underemployment problems in the country, hurting more the impoverished families.”

He further underscored that the program “will capacitate the scholars on industry-standard technical and soft skills to prepare for internship and gainful employment.”

“It is important for us at Caritas Philippines to concretely put into practice the advocacies that we espouse like advancing labor rights in the country,” stressed Fr. Tony Labiao, the national Caritas’ executive secretary.

Aside from the community schooling program, Caritas Philippines is also implementing an educational assistance program for academically challenged students, family feeding program, and the capacity-building programs at the Caritas Philippines Academy.

Overall, Caritas Philippines has allotted 44 million pesos this year for the programs to upscale the capacities of the youth and young adults, through the various Alay Kapwa Legacy Stewardship Programs… Read More

(SunStar) MISS Pasay Celeste Cortesi was crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2022 during the Coronation Night on April 30, held at the Mall of Asia Arena, Bay City, Pasay, Metro Manila.

Cortesi also bagged special awards like Best in Swimsuit and Miss Photogenic. The 24-year-old model will represent the country in the prestigious Miss Universe 2022 pageant.

During the final question and answer portion, event presenter Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach asked the beauty queen coming from Pasay, “If you could stop time for a day, how would you spend it?”

“If I could stop time, I would spend it with my family especially with my mother. It’s been two years I didn’t see my family because they live in Italy and I came here in the Philippines just by myself. So if I had the chance to spend one day I would definitely be with my mom and I would tell her how much I love her and miss her,” said Cortesi… Read More

(Journal Online) MANILA — Ayala Center For Excellence in Sports (ACES) on Saturday names eight national athletes selected for its pilot program Atletang Ayala.

Launched last March, ACES is part of Ayala’s commitment to nation-building by providing holistic support to the country’s emerging athletic Olympic bets. Ayala believes that sports can inspire and bring together a nation. Hence, through ACES, Ayala finds a way to help the next generation of Filipino athletes achieve their full potential.

“Many of our athletes are already well on the way to becoming internationally competitive in this way. We would like to help support them, by building long-term relationships that will help them become the best they can be in both their athletic and post-athletic careers,” said Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Chairman of Ayala Corporation.

“We believe that this posture of investing in the long-term development of the individual, as both an athlete and as a person, is an effective and sustainable way to build success in Philippine national sports,” he added… Read More

(Manila Bulletin) President Duterte said Filipinos should remember Philippine culture and history as honoring historical figures will encourage the people to honor modern-day heroes.

Duterte said this during the 501st anniversary of the Victory at Mactan and the closing of the 2021 Quincentennial Commemoration in the Philippines at the Liberty Shrine in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu.

In his speech, Duterte hoped that the efforts to memorialize Lapulapu would lead Filipinos to appreciate the nation’s heroes of today.

“Even in the smallest of ways, we can show our love for our country and our fellow Filipinos,” he said on April 27.

The President emphasized the need for Filipinos to remember the country’s “long and rich history correctly” regardless of the current circumstances or whether it happened a long time ago… Read More

(Manila Bulletin) Ahead of the Miss Universe Philippines 2022 Finals on April 30, five winners of the prestigious Miss Universe pageant reunited at Okada Manila in Paranaque City on April 29!

Those who graced the dinner sponsored by the Miss Universe Philippines Organization were reigning Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu of India, Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray (Philippines), Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach (Philippines), Miss Universe 2017 Demi-Leigh Tebow (South Africa); and Miss Universe 2016 Iris Mittenaere (France).

Wurtzbach, Tebow, and Mittenaere will host the finals of the Miss Universe Philippines 2022 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City… Read More

(Manila Times) “Top Class: The Rise To P-Pop Stardom” — the biggest and newest P-Pop reality search competition in the Philippines — will have internationally-renowned dance superstar and choreographer Brian Puspos as its official dance mentor.

The announcement comes after the show revealed Asia’s Soul Supreme KZ Tandingan and Hip-Hop artist Shanti Dope as the contestants’ vocal and rap mentors, respectively.

“It means the world to me being Filipino-American, and just my love for the Philippines and our people, but also representing dance. You know, dance has just recently gone to the forefront of just art and I think it’s very important for me as a Filipino and as a dancer to be on such a high platform and to help people reach their dreams, help mentor them and shape them to get better,” he said during his launch.

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Hailing from Houston, Texas, USA, Puspos first gained recognition in the dance scene when his dance crew called “SoReal Cru” finished as the runner-up in the second season of Randy Jackson’s “America’s Best Dance Crew.” In the seventh season, he competed once again but this time with the “Mos Wanted Crew,” finishing third. He is also an R&B singer, having already released three EPs in 2017 and 2020… Read More

(Asia One) MANILA – The Philippines has pulled the plug on all domestic screenings of a Hollywood film called “Uncharted”, over a scene showing a disputed map of the South China Sea, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday (April 27)

The move comes shortly after Vietnam, another claimant in the South China Sea, also banned the Sony Pictures action movie, which stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. It was released in the Philippines on Feb 23.

A two-second frame in the movie contains an image of the so-called nine-dash line, which marks China’s claims in the South China Sea, a strategic waterway. The scene “is contrary to national interest,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The U-shaped line is a feature used on Chinese maps to illustrate its maritime territory in a region where Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia, the Philippines all have competing claims.

A 2016 ruling by an arbitration tribunal in The Hague invalidated China’s claims to almost the entire waterway through which about $3 trillion worth of ship-borne trade passes annually. Beijing did not participate in the court proceedings and does not recognise the ruling… Read More

(KTOO) A megaship called the Norwegian Bliss was the first large cruise ship to come to Juneau this year. It tied up at the dock farthest from downtown, but at Bernadette’s barbecue stand, Dannie Lazaro was grilling a pile of chicken skewers in the hopes that people would start heading his way.

He wasn’t waiting for tourists, though. Most of his business is with the workers on the ship who largely hail from the Philippines or Indonesia and are often hankering for a taste of home.

Last year, COVID-19 restrictions meant that the crew more often than not couldn’t get off the ships in port at all, so that means Bernadette’s and other businesses in town that cater to crewmembers, did practically zero business. Bernadette’s offered delivery. Local longshoremen would pick up the food and take it to the crew stuck on the boats, but that hardly made up for the hundreds or thousands of workers that used to pass by his stand every day before the pandemic.

More than an hour after the ship docked, it was still unclear if the crew would get off the Norwegian Bliss. Lazaro was waiting for all the passengers to get off and then for the crew to board a van that would bring them closer to town… Read More