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‘Imburnal Girl’ kinokonsidera na maging isang ambassador ng DSWD

The woman who went viral on social media after she was spotted emerging from a drainage was being considered to become an ambassador of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Rose, also known as ‘Imburnal Girl,’ received the public and the government’s attention because of her actions, which a photographer in Makati captured.

After sharing her wish to have a small business, she received more than P80,000 worth of cash aid from the DSWD.

In a statement, DSWD Sec. Rex Gatchalian said that they came up with the idea of making Rose their ambassador to help convince other street dwellers to cooperate with the agency.

According to Gatchalian, Rose may help DSWD to change the perspective of the street dwellers and convince them that the agency is there to help them and not to transfer them to other places.

“Siguro puwede natin siyang gamiting ambassador para maipaliwanag na walang masamang mangyayari ‘pag sumama sa amin kundi tulong lang,” said Gatchalian.

“Nahihirapan kaming mangumbinse minsan kaya nga ang gagawin nating bagong strategy ngayon, gagamitin natin ang mga tulad ni Rose na nakaranas na ng tulong ng gobyerno na kumbinsihin ang ilan nilang kaibigan na nasa gano’ng sitwasyon,” he added.

Jake Ejercito, posibleng magsampa ng demanda laban sa isang vlogger

Jake Ejercito was exploring legal options against Mindanao-based vlogger Crist Briand after the latter featured Ellie Eigenmann in his vlog without her consent.

On his Facebook post, the actor appealed to his followers to report Briand’s page for invading the privacy of his daughter with Andi Eigenmann.

To prove that Ellie was not comfortable with Briand’s action, Jake showed a part of the video where his daughter could be seen covering her face.

“Please continue reporting the page of this irresponsible clout chaser who ambushed a 13-year-old girl for views. I’m now in the process of exploring legal options,” he said.

“Using minors for your content is disrespectful and exploitative. My daughter made it clear that we will not be okay with you doing this. And she is clearly uncomfortable. Build your platform on integrity! Don’t use our daughter for clout,” he added.

According to the Data Privacy Act of 2012, minors like Ellie must be protected from sharing their data, including their faces, without consent.

Briand has yet to respond to Jake.

Xian Gaza, naglaho sa Facebook matapos sumawsaw sa isyu ni Mayor Albee Benitez

Internet celebrity Christian Albert Gaza had gone missing on social media several hours after he released documents and photos related to the issue of Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez.

It can be recalled that Mayor Benitez was facing charges from his wife, Nikki Benitez, after his alleged relationship with several women, including actress Ivana Alawi.

Following the leak of the documents, Gaza then published several photos of the Mayor together with other women.

He also published several documents and claimed that the Benitez couple had separated many years ago.

However, Gaza’s account mysteriously disappeared on Facebook, which Victorias City Mayor Javi Benitez, the son of the Benitez couple, confirmed.

Several netizens speculated that the internet celebrity received a warning from Benitez’s camp.

Some of them even believed that the Benitez family could find internet celebrities due to their influence in the Philippines and other countries.

Gaza never came back to the Philippines after he fled the country in 2018, after being convicted of being involved in an investment scam.

 

Nikki Benitez, ibinahagi ang umano’y pagkakaroon ng anak ni Mayor Albee Benitez sa dalawang personalidad

Bacolod City First Lady Nikki Benitez named two additional personalities in her complaint against her husband, Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez.

Aside from actress Ivana Alawi, Mrs. Benitez also narrated how her husband admitted her relationship with Binibining Pilipinas World 1996 Daisy Reyes and former Viva Hot Babes member Andrea del Rosario.

According to Mrs. Benitez, her husband had children with Rosario and Reyes.

In her complaint, Mrs. Benitez narrated that she had already heard rumors about her husband and Reyes’s relationship, which intensified when the beauty queen was reported to be pregnant.

However, the respondent, Mayor Benitez, denied his affair with the beauty queen.

In 2009, Mrs. Benitez was again disrupted by another rumor between her husband and Del Rosario.

She only discovered that her husband had children with both personalities when the latter submitted his psychiatric evaluation related to the petition to nullify their marriage.

“The psychological evaluation revealed that the Respondent admitted to having two daughters outside of his marriage with me,” said Mrs. Benitez.

As of writing, Del Rosario and Reyes have yet to give their reaction to the accusations made by Mrs. Benitez.

Babaeng nakitang lumabas sa drainage, nakatanggap ng libo-libong pisong pera at groceries

The woman who went viral after being spotted while emerging from a drainage in Makati City received thousands of pesos in cash assistance and groceries from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

In a photo published on May 30, 2025, the said woman identified as “Rose” could be seen doing a grocery shopping as part of DSWD’s pledge to fulfill her request to open a sari-sari store.

It can be recalled that Rose even met DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian to personally share her story.

She also clarified that she was not living inside the drainage and only wanted to recover the cutter blade fell in the canal.

“Nagulat ako ang dami nang tumingin sa akin dahil kinabahan ako. Pinilit ko lang kunin yung cutter blade ko po,” she said.

Aside from receiving cash aid from DSWD, Karla would also be enrolled to Alternative Learning System (ALS) as she only finished grade 2.

However, some netizens were not happy with what Rose was receiving and others even questioned what Rose was doing in the drainage.

Some netizens argued that DSWD must background check Rose first and train her how to handle a business.

“DSWD should check their cash assistance program. Cash agad? Dapat train ninyo at bigyan hanapbuhay, monitor ninyo kung nagagamit ng maayos yong pera. Easy solution kayo, pera ng taxpayers ginagamit ninyo. Naeenganyo ninyo mga taong maging squatters na lang at tumira kung saan saan. Lalong dadami at magiging modus na ng iba yan,” said netizen Marge.

“Easy money ahhh samantalang yun iba pagod sa trabaho maghapon may pera pala sa imburnal need na pumasok,” netizen Anne remarked.

Election Lawyer Romulo Macalintal, ipinaliwanag kung bakit posibleng wala ng pag-asa ang impeachment laban kay VP Sara

Election lawyer and former senatorial candidate Atty. Romulo Macalintal said that, based on the timeline given for the proceedings, the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte was already considered ‘dead’.

In an interview, Atty. Macalintal said that the 19th Congress has had insufficient time to proceed with the impeachment.

“If the impeachment case against Sara Duterte starts being heard on June 2, that case is already dead. The present Senate no longer has time. Its term ends by June 30,” said Macalintal.

Macalintal also argued that it may be necessary to restart the impeachment proceedings at the start of the 20th Congress because there will be new senator-judges who are not part of the 19th Congress proceedings.

There’s also a possibility that if the complaint is declared invalid, the Congress could only file another impeachment case by next year.

“If there’s a new impeachment case, it would fall under what’s called the prohibition in our Constitution – you cannot have two impeachment cases within one year,” the lawyer said.

Senate President Chiz Escudero also announced that the impeachment complaint reading would be reset to June 11 to prioritize completing important bills before the end of the Congress.

Currently, the Supreme Court has no decision yet on the petition for certiorari and prohibition filed by Vice President Duterte on February 18 to question the validity of the impeachment against her.

Albee Benitez, ibinunyag ang mga nagastos niya para sa kanyang asawa sa gitna ng isinampang kaso sa kanya

Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez’s camp ended their silence after the public official’s wife, Nikki Benitez, filed charges against him.

According to the statement published by Benitez’s legal counsel, Peter Sanchez, the timing of the case filing was questionable since some of the incidents mentioned in the complaint filed by Mrs. Benitez happened as far back as two decades ago.

They also claimed that the mayor didn’t fail to support his partner despite being separated a long time ago.

“Every property acquired during the marriage—including the multi-million peso residences in Forbes Park and Dasmariñas Village—was fully paid for by Mayor Benitez using his own resources, but titled in the name of the complainant, Dominique Lopez-Benitez. This also includes high-value assets such as condominium units, luxury vehicles, and a substantial amount of publicly listed shares, all of which were funded by Mayor Benitez but registered under her,” the lawyer said.

There was also a court order that the mayor was only obligated to support his wife and his family, but he was generous enough to give more.

“Mayor Benitez continued to provide not just ordinary support but a high standard of living, shouldering personal, household, and even extended family expenses for more than two decades. This included the complainant’s travel business ventures, staff, and credit card charges-even long after their separation,” the report read.

Benitez’s camp also urged the complainant to stop dragging actress Ivana Alawi on the issue, saying that naming individuals would be against the process of VAWC.

Motovlogger, humaharap sa kontrobersya matapos hubuan ang isang nakikisabit sa isang jeep

A moto vlogger was criticized on social media after he published a video showing him riding a motorcycle and suddenly grabbing the shorts of a random child hanging on a running jeepney.

In the now-deleted video, moto vlogger Yhassotrue was seen riding around the Manila area when he spotted three children who appeared to be hanging on a jeep to get a free ride.

The vlogger then tried to chase the jeep and tried to reach one of the hanging passenger’s shorts before slowing down.

Netizens couldn’t hide their disappointment at the moto vlogger’s act, saying that it endangered the safety of the child.

“Napaka delikado ano ba naman,” a netizen said.

“For the views buti di nka bitaw ang bilis pa naman ng takbo ng jeep,” another netizen said.

We are trying to reach the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to ask for their comment about the incident.

‘Pambansang Yobab’ posibleng ma-persona non grata sa Iloilo dahil sa kanyang food review

Residents of Iloilo City discussed the possibility of declaring influencer Euleen Castro, a.k.a. ‘Pambansang Yobab’, persona non grata after she posted a negative review against a local coffee shop.

It can be recalled that Castro received negative comments online and even captured the attention of the City Mayor Jerry Treñas after she declared that all the food she ordered in the said coffee shop was not delicious.

She even raised the eyebrows of the netizens because of her explicit-laden criticism against the coffee shop.

“Nag-try kami dito sa Coffeebreak. Andami. Out of all of you, all of you [mga inorder na food] walang masarap. Even the drinks. Even the lasagna. Lahat tab-ang… Ang dami n’yo diyan, walang masarap sa inyo? Ni isa? P*ta,” said Castro.

The comments made by Castro sparked an appeal to ban her from visiting Iloilo again.

However, a lawyer reminded the court that persona non grata was purely symbolic and that there was no legal basis for someone to be barred from entering a city despite the declaration.

“Declaring someone persona non grata through a local government resolution is purely symbolic—it merely expresses disapproval and has no legal weight. It cannot bar a person from entering or remaining in a city,” said Atty. Race del Rosario.

Atty. Del Rosario also argued that Castro didn’t directly criticize Iloilo, and the coffee shop had all the chance to defend itself from the negative review.

 

Ivana Alawi, may mensahe tungkol sa umano’y relasyon nila ng isang alkalde

Actress Ivana Alawi was facing criticism on social media after she was named in a complaint filed by Bacolod City First Lady Nikki Benitez against her husband, Mayor Albee Benitez.

It can be recalled that the relationship between Mayor Benitez and Alawi has been circulating since last year after they were spotted at an airport.

In the complaint, Mrs. Benitez claimed that her husband admitted to having a relationship with Alawi when he pushed for the annulment of their marriage.

“While I heard rumors of Responde’s infidelity early on, I had no proof of such facts. It was only when I received the Petition for Declaration of Nullity of Marriage filed by Respondent and after reading the admission of Respondent of having fathered two (2) illegitimate children, and his implied admission of his current illicit relationship with Ivana Alawi, that I was able to confirm his marital infidelity,” she said.

“I felt utterly betrayed by the Respondent and was devastated beyond compare after finally discovering and confirming the truth in the Respondent’s lies,” she added.

However, several months ago, Alawi already released a statement denying her connection to Benitez.

She even insisted that she was dating someone, but not Benitez.

“HINDI PO AKO ANG NASASABING girlfriend ni Mayor Albee Benitez. I met him when I had work in Bacolod. He was very accommodating and friendly. At hindi lang siya ang politikong nakilala ko at naging kaibigan,” Alawi said in a statement.

“I am currently seeing someone who makes me happy. All I can say is that he is a respectable businessman and not a Politician,” she added.