The Philippine National Police is the armed national police force in the Philippines. Its national headquarters is located at Camp Crame in Bagong Lipunan ng Crame,Quezon City. Currently,it has approximately 228,000 personnel to police a population in excess of 100 million.
Naval,officially the Municipality of Naval,is a 2nd class municipality and capital of the province of Biliran,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 58,187 people.
The legislative districts of Leyte are the representations of the province of Leyte,the independent component city of Ormoc,and highly urbanized city of Tacloban in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province,together with the independent cities are currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through their first,second,third,fourth,and fifth congressional districts.
Biliran Province State University (BiPSU) is a state university in the municipality of Naval in Biliran,Philippines. It is operating an extension campus in the town of Biliran.
Gretchen Stephanie Mendiola Espina is a Filipino singer and politician who rose to notability after winning Pinoy Idol,an interactive reality-based singing competition. Although she is credited as the first Pinoy Idol,Espina is technically the second winner of a Philippine Idol franchise,after Mau Marcelo of Philippine Idol in 2006. She came from the political family of Espinas of Biliran. Her father Rogelio Espina,is a former governor and the current representative of the lone district of Biliran,while her grandfather Gerardo Espina,Sr. is a former representative and mayor of Naval,Biliran and her uncle Gerardo Espina,Jr is a former representative and current governor of Biliran.
Datu Mamintal "Bombit" Alonto Adiong Jr. is a Filipino politician who currently serve as the governor of the province of Lanao del Sur from 2007 to 2016,and from 2019 up to present.
Roel Ragay Degamo was a Filipino politician who served as governor of Negros Oriental from 2011 to June 2022,and again from October 2022 until his assassination on March 4,2023. He previously served as the province's vice governor from 2010 to 2011,and was a municipal councilor of Siaton from 1998 to 2007.
Gerardo Valeriano Ortega DVM,better known simply as "Doc Gerry" or "Ka Gerry," was a Filipino journalist,veterinarian,politician,environmental activist,and community organizer best known for his work to promote crocodile farming in the Philippines and for his advocacy against mining on the island of Palawan. Ortega has often been lauded as a hero of the Philippine Environment since his assassination on January 24,2011,allegedly due to his anti-mining and anti-corruption advocacy.
Gerardo Jimenez Espina Jr.,also known as Gerry Espina,is a Filipino politician. He is currently the Representative of the lone District of Biliran,having been elected in the 2010 elections. Prior to this,he was a member of the 13th Congress of the Philippines as representative of the lone legislative district of Biliran which he served for one term from 2004 to 2007.
Elections were held in Eastern Visayas for seats in the House of Representatives of the Philippines on May 9,2016.
The Philippine drug war,known as the War on Drugs,is the intensified anti-drug campaign that began during the the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte,who served office from June 30,2016,to June 30,2022. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country,but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by the police and unknown assailants. An estimated 7,742 civilians have been killed in "anti-drug operations" carried out by the government and its supporters between 2016 and 2021.
Kian delos Santos,Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18,2017,during the course of the Philippine drug war.
Rogelio "Roger" Jimenez Espina is a Filipino politician from Biliran,Philippines. He was the governor of Biliran from 2019 to 2022,and previously from 2001 to 2010. He also served as representative for the lone district of Biliran from 2010 to 2019.
The governor of Biliran is the local chief executive of the Philippine province of Biliran. The governor holds office at the Biliran Provincial Capitol located at Brgy. Calumpang,Naval,Biliran. Like all local government heads in the Philippines,the governor is elected via popular vote,and may not be elected for a fourth consecutive term. In case of death,resignation or incapacity,the vice governor becomes the governor.
Biliran's at-large congressional district is the sole congressional district of the Philippines in the province of Biliran. It was created ahead of the 1995 Philippine House of Representatives elections following its conversion into a regular province under the 1991 Local Government Code which was ratified in a 1992 plebiscite concurrent with that year's general election. Biliran had been a sub-province of Leyte since 1959 and was last represented as part of Leyte's 3rd district in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995 and earlier from 1961 to 1972,the multi-member Region VIII's at-large district in the Interim Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1984,and the multi-member Leyte's at-large district in the Regular Batasang Pambansa from 1984 to 1986. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Gerardo Espina Jr. of Lakas–CMD.
Ronaldo Porlares Aquino,CPA was a Filipino accountant and politician who served as mayor of the city of Calbayog,Samar. He and his three companions were assassinated in March 8,2021.
Gubernatorial elections were held in the Philippines on May 9,2022. All provinces will elect their provincial governors for three-year terms,who will be inaugurated on June 30,2022 after their proclamation. Governors that are currently serving their third consecutive terms are prohibited from running as governors.
The Pamplona massacre was a mass shooting and assassination incident that took place at Pamplona,Negros Oriental in the Philippines. On March 4,2023,at approximately 9:36 A.M. (PhST),a group of former members of the Philippine military stormed the residence of Roel Degamo,the governor of Negros Oriental,in Pamplona and killed Degamo,the target,as well as nine others. The attack happened during the distribution of aid to the local beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. Degamo was rushed to a nearby provincial hospital,where he was pronounced dead at 11:41 A.M. (PhST).
