Gregorio "Gringo" Ballesteros Honasan II,is a Filipino politician and a cashiered Philippine Army officer who led unsuccessful coups d'état against President Corazon Aquino. He played a key role in the 1986 EDSA Revolution that toppled President Ferdinand Marcos,and participated in the EDSA III rallies in 2001 that preceded the May 1 riots near Malacañang Palace.
The Department of Justice is under the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for upholding the rule of law in the Philippines. It is the government's principal law agency,serving as its legal counsel and prosecution arm. It has its headquarters at the DOJ Building in Padre Faura Street,Ermita,Manila.
The Department of Transportation is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the maintenance and expansion of viable,efficient,and dependable transportation systems as effective instruments for national recovery and economic progress. It is responsible for the country's land,air,and sea communications infrastructure.
The Presidential Communications Group,or simply the Communications Group,is the collective name for the offices within the Office of the President of the Philippines and refers to the position of the Secretary of Presidential Communications Office formerly known as Office of the Press Secretary and the Secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). The office of the presidential spokesperson was previously under the Communications Group.
Philippine Cultural College is a Chinese Filipino school with three campuses located in Manila,Caloocan and Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines,established on June 27,1923 by the Philippine Chinese Educational Association. PCC is the oldest Chinese Filipino secondary school in the Philippines. It is a non-stock,non-profit,and non-sectarian co-educational education institution offering pre-school,and has a Level II re-accredited status from the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools,Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) for its grade school and high school. Its programs emphasize in the English,Filipino,and Mandarin Chinese languages,Mathematics,Science,and Information Technology.
Jose Ruperto Martin Marfori Andanar is a Filipino television news personality,former news anchor,radio commentator,podcaster,voice-over artist and a columnist. He served as the former secretary of the Presidential Communications Office of the Philippines under the Duterte administration and is now CGTN anchor.
Alfredo "Fred" Espinosa Pascual is a Filipino international development banker and finance expert,currently serving as the Secretary of Trade and Industry under the administration of Bongbong Marcos since June 30,2022. He also served as the 20th President of the University of the Philippines (U.P.) System,from 2011 to 2017. He was a member of the U.P. Board of Regents,the university's highest policy-making and governing body,representing the alumni,just before he was elected as U.P. President,the first non-faculty member to hold the position.
The order of precedence in the Philippines is the protocol used in ranking government officials and other personages in the Philippines. Purely ceremonial in nature,it has no legal standing,and does not reflect the presidential line of succession nor the equal status of the three branches of government established in the 1987 Constitution.
Arsenio Molina Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academician currently serving as the Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Balisacan first served as the NEDA Secretary from May 2012 to January 2016 under the Benigno Aquino III administration. He then served under the Duterte administration as the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission from February 1,2016,to June 30,2022. He was again appointed as NEDA Secretary under the Bongbong Marcos administration. During his first term in 2012,he concurrently served as NEDA Secretary and as Chairman of the Boards of the Philippine Statistics Authority,Philippine Institute for Development Studies,Philippine Center for Economic Development,and Public-Private Partnership Center.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the planning,development and promotion of the country's information and communications technology (ICT) agenda in support of national development.
Rodolfo "Rudy" Agapay Salalima is a Filipino lawyer who was the first secretary of the Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) under the Duterte administration. Salalima is the former chief legal counsel and senior advisor of Globe Telecom,one of the leading telecommunications firms in the country and has also served as Senior Vice President for Corporate and Regulatory Affairs and Managing Director of Ayala Corporation. He is also the former president of the Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications Operators (PCTO) and International Telecommunication Union Council working group for the amendment of ITU constitution and convention vice chairman for Asia Pacific Region.
Fortunato "Boy" Tanseco de la Peña is a Filipino engineer and professor who served as the Secretary of Science and Technology in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 to 2022. Before he assumed leadership of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST),he was the Undersecretary for Scientific and Technological Services from 2001 to 2014. Except for his brief retirement from 2014 to 2016,he has been with the department since 1982.
Philippine Communications Satellite Corporation (PHILCOMSAT) is a telecommunications company based in Makati,Metro Manila,Philippines. Its main teleport is in the province of Rizal.
Eliseo Mijares Rio Jr. is a Filipino retired brigadier general and electronics engineer who is the former Undersecretary for Operations of the Philippines' Department of Information and Communications Technology and once headed the department under the Duterte administration from 2017 to 2019 as Officer-in-charge.
The Secretary of the Information and Communications Technology is the member of the Cabinet in charge of the Department of Information and Communications Technology.
The Open Access in Data Transmission Act is an internet and telecommunications law bill filed in the Congress of the Philippines. The bill contains provisions encouraging the development of data transmission infrastructure and removing any barrier to competition in data transmission services. It also aims to protect and promote the internet as an open platform enabling consumer choice,freedom of expression,end-user control,competition and freedom to innovate without permission.
Jocelle Batapa-Sigue is a Filipino politician,currently serving as Undersecretary for Informations and Communications Technology Industry Development of the Department of Information and Communications Technology. She previously served as a member of the Bacolod City Council. She is the founding chairperson of the Bacolod –Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology,one of the founding organization of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines where she became president from 2010-2012.
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo is a Filipino politician and opinion columnist. She has been appointed Undersecretary in the Department of Information and Communications Technology since November 2022. Prior to this,she was Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs of the same department.
