Queen Elizabeth II, PM Cameron saddened by Thatcher death
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday they were saddened by the death of former premier Margaret Thatcher at the age of 87.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday they were saddened by the death of former premier Margaret Thatcher at the age of 87.
He is home. Fr. James Reuter, SJ, the revered and and well-loved American priest and honorary Filipino, passed away Monday from lung and heart failure, the Ateneo de Manila University community has announced.
As a young girl from a well-to-do Laguna family, Natividad Almeda-Lopez would invite ragged and poor strangers into her home, appealing to her parents for food, clothes, and even jobs, for her “guests.”
In a statement on Friday, the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the agencies under it said they were one with the nation in mourning the passing of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, whom they described as a “friend of labor” who supported the agency’s fight against child labor, all forms of illegal recruitment and human trafficking. “With his passing, the fight just lost one of its greatest generals,” the statement said.
Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo’s widow, Leni, on Thursday said that she did not question his untimely passing and that she felt that he had lived a full life.
Late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo started his day early, so early that he, sometimes, arrived ahead of all his employees at the DILG office in Quezon City.
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala on Wednesday said he was personally amazed with the strength displayed by the members of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo’s family.
A colleague of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo on Wednesday said he was proud to have worked with his boss, saying Robredo left a great example that would guide him for the future.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro mourned the passing of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo whom he described as an “icon of good governance and faithful stewardship.”
Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo is truly “gone too soon,” Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said Tuesday as she vows to continue reforms and anti-crime campaign that she and Robredo had started.
There has been an outpouring of tributes for the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo whose body was found Tuesday morning in the waters off Masbate.
In Basilan, Bishop Martin Jumoad described Robredo’s passing as a “great loss to the Filipino nation.”
President Benigno Aquino III is considering declaring a national day of mourning for the country’s King of Comedy, fondly called Dolphy by generations of Filipinos, amid calls from different groups to do so.
