INQToday: Alice Guo will no longer seek reelection as Bamban mayor

Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:

Alice Guo will no longer seek reelection as Bamban mayor

Alice Guo on Tuesday said she would not seek reelection as Bamban mayor in 2025 to clean her name amid the cases filed against her.

Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada brought up the matter during the Senate panel on women’s 15th hearing on Guo’s ties to Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos).

BI: Alice Guo fled to Malaysia by air

Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor  Alice Guo and her cohorts fled the country to Malaysia by air, at least based on the preliminary conclusion of the Bureau of Immigration (BI).

BI Officer in Charge Atty, Joel Anthony Viado bared his agency’s conclusion at the Senate panel on women’s 15th hearing on Guo’s Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) ties.

Ex-CSC chair Nograles to face Duterte for Davao City mayoral post

Recently resigned Civil Service Commission (CSC) chair Karlo Alexie Nograles has sought this city’s top post in the 2025 midterm elections.

Nograles filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for mayor on Tuesday morning, a day after it was made public that he had resigned from his CSC post.

China opened water cannons on PH boats again

China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels used its water cannons again to disrupt the resupply mission to  Filipino ships in Scarborough Shoal on Tuesday morning, but China’s attempt failed to reach the boats, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) confirmed.

BRP Datu Cabaylo (MMOV 3301) and BRP Datu Sanday (MMOV 2002) were on a routine resupply mission to the Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough) Shoal when three CCG ships and one Chinese Navy vessel began to approach and shadow them, the bureau said in a statement.

‘A terrible tragedy,’ says Marcos of OFW’s execution in Saudi

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called the execution of an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia “a terrible tragedy,” and said that the Philippine government exhausted all efforts to prevent it from happening.

“It was a terrible tragedy, and there was very little we had left to do. We have very few options left,” he said in an ambush interview before he flew to Vientiane, Laos, on Tuesday for the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and related summits.

August 2024 unemployment rate falls to 4%, says PSA

The Philippines’ unemployment rate fell to a two-month low of four percent in August largely due to a significant influx of Filipino women into the labor force who found jobs in the services sector, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday.

Preliminary results of the PSA’s August round of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) showed the unemployment rate recorded the lowest in two months or since the 3.1 percent recorded in June, translating to 2.07 million jobless Filipinos.