Bulacan,officially the Province of Bulacan,is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Malolos. Bulacan was established on August 15,1578,and part of the Metro Luzon Urban Beltway Super Region.
Baliwag,officially the City of Baliwag,is a component city in the province of Bulacan,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 168,470 people.
Balagtas,officially the Municipality of Balagtas,is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 77,018 people. The municipality is 30 kilometers (19 mi) from Manila and is 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from Malolos City.
Bustos,officially the Municipality of Bustos,is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 77,199 people.
San Miguel,officially the Municipality of San Miguel,is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 172,073 people.
Aquilino Martin de la Llana Pimentel III,commonly known as Koko Pimentel,is a Filipino politician and lawyer serving as the Senate Minority Leader since 2022. He has been a Senator since 2011 and previously served as the Senate President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2018. He is also the national chairman of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban). As the eldest son and third child of the former Senate President Aquilino Pimentel Jr.,he is the first child of a previous Senate president to hold the office. He was sworn in on August 12,2011,and was proclaimed as the 12th winning senator in the 2007 election. Pimentel was one of the high-ranking public officials who drew flak for breaching the COVID-19 quarantine protocols.
Pedro M. Pancho was a Filipino politician. He has been elected to six terms as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines,representing the 2nd District of Bulacan from 1992 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2013.
Baliwag Transit is one of the major bus companies in the Philippines with offices and terminals in various parts of Luzon that mainly services routes to and from Metro Manila and Central Luzon. It is named after the town of Baliwag,where it originated.
Felipe Salvador,also known as Apo Ipe or Ápûng IpêSalvador,was a Filipino revolutionary who founded the Santa Iglesia,a messianic society that was categorized as "colorum" which had the aim of defeating and overthrowing the occupational government of the United States in the Philippines. Salvador joined the Katipunan in 1896 upon the arrival of the Katipuneros from Balintawak in Baliuag,Bulacan. He founded the Santa Iglesia in 1901 after fleeing to the mountains when Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo was captured by American troops. Salvador and his church gained a significant number of followers in the regions of Bulacan,Pampanga,Pangasinan,Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. He was captured by American forces in 1910. He was tried and sentenced to death,being hanged in 1912,two years after his capture.
The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Saint Augustine,commonly known as Baliwag Church,is a Roman Catholic church located in Plaza Naning at the poblacion of Baliwag,in Bulacan province,Philippines. The church is a parish church of the Diocese of Malolos,which is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila.
The Baliwag Municipal Library and Museum which is currently housed at the Lumang Munisipyo is the town's center for historical and cultural heritage.
The Bulacan Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of the Philippine province of Bulacan.
The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon was a series of stay-at-home orders and cordon sanitaire measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on the island of Luzon and its associated islands. It is part of the COVID-19 community quarantines in the Philippines,a larger scale of COVID-19 containment measures with varying degrees of strictness. The "enhanced community quarantine" (ECQ) is the strictest of these measures and is effectively a total lockdown.
The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act,also known as the Bayanihan Act,and officially designated as Republic Act No. 11469,is a law in the Philippines that was enacted in March 2020 granting the President additional authority to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. The word "bayanihan" is a Tagalog word for communal work.
Bulacan's 2nd congressional district is one of the seven congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Bulacan. It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1916 and earlier in the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1916. The district consists of the city of Baliwag and the municipalities of Bustos and Plaridel. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Tina Pancho of the National Unity Party (NUP).
Both the national government and local governments have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines with various declarations of emergency,closure of schools and public meeting places,lockdowns,and other restrictions intended to slow the spread of the virus.
Henry Resurreccion Villarica, also known as Atorni Henry,is a Filipino attorney and politician who is currently serving as City Mayor of Meycauayan. He previously served as Mayor from 2016 until 2019,and served as the member of the Philippine House of Representatives from the 4th District of Bulacan from 2019 until 2022. He is also the president of Villarica Pawnshop,which was founded by his parents.
Linabelle Ruth Ramos Villarica is a Filipino politician who currently serves as the member of the House of Representatives from the 4th District of Bulacan since 2022 and previously from 2010 to 2019. She previously served as mayor of Meycauayan from 2019 to 2022.
