Established on July 3, 1993, pursuant to the provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution and the New Central Bank Act of 1993, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) took over from the Central Bank of the Philippines the responsibility of being the country’s chief monetary authority. As an organization, the BSP enjoys fiscal and administrative autonomy from the National Government in the pursuit of its mandated responsibilities.
SURROUNDED by doctors, the only survivor of the Yemenia Airbus 310 jet crash, 14-year-old Bahia Bakari, is seen in a hospital bed, through the window of the room where she is being cared for at the El Maaruf Hospital in Moroni, Comoros, on Wednesday. The Yemenia Airbus 310 jet was carrying 153 people to the island nation of Comoros when it crashed into the sea early Tuesday as it attempted to land in the dark amid howling winds. (Photo by AP)
MANILA (AFP) – Former President Aquino, who is battling colon cancer, has decided to forgo further chemotherapy or any other medical treatment, her spokesperson was quoted yesterday as saying.
An autopsy on television talent Benjie Peralta confirms that he was high on drugs when he fell from a building in Barangay West Triangle, Quezon City last June 24 even as police are set to file murder charges against five people who were with him at that time.
MORONI, Comoros (AP) – The lone survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash, who clung to wreckage for 13 hours before being rescued, lay in a hospital bed with a broken collarbone Wednesday, asking for little – except for a chance to see her mother.
Opposition Sen. Chiz Escudero said yesterday government should work to sharply reduce, if not eliminate, dropout rates in public elementary and high schools in six years.
Visayas and Mindanao including Palawan will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
Light to moderate winds blowing from the southwest will prevail over Luzon and coming from the south and southeast over the rest of the country. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be slight to moderate except during thunderstorms.
