Mar Roxas relived his “Mr. Palengke” persona on Tuesday when he visited the public market here, shook hands with vendors and buyers and asked about prices.
A compilation of writings on the late Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo provides a peek of the different facets of the public servant’s life as told by people who knew him up close.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has distanced itself from a draft report that pointed to pilot error as one of the main causes of the plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo and two others in August.
The tombs of Raul S. Roco and Jesse M. Robredo are just across each other in Barangay Balatas here and at the edges of two of the largest cemeteries that they seem to be sentinels for the rest of the departed in the city that remembers its two beloved sons like hometown heroes on All Souls’ Day.
Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo called Tuesday for the transfer of management of jails under local government units to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) following the escape of 11 prisoners from the Maguindanao Provincial Jail in Cotabato City.
