Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was scheduled to arrive last night from a three-day trip to Hong Kong that was largely seen as an excuse to avoid President Aquino’s tirades against her in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday.
Dog owners trooped to the Philippine Coast Guard Headquarters in Manila on Thursday to voluntarily donate their pets to the PCG K9-Unit.
Lieutenant Commander Armando Balilo, PCG spokesman and deputy chief of staff for community relations said that many responded to their call to busy people to donate their pet dogs for training in the K9 unit.
The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) came up yesterday with six candidates, including elections Commissioner Rene Sarmiento, from which President Aquino would pick his first appointee to the Supreme Court.