News in Pictures: August 15, 2024

HOME ARE THE HEROES

The country’s Olympians from the Paris Games receive a well-earned heroes’ welcome on Wednesday, a day after arriving home. Led by gymnastics double- gold medalist Carlos Yulo and boxing bronze finishers Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas, Team Philippines easily attracts crowds as the athletes are paraded on Roxas Boulevard (first photo) and Taft Avenue (second photo) and later presented amid more cheers at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila (other photos).

Yulo, along with Gymnastics Association of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion (center, right photo), also makes a stop at McKinley Hill in Taguig City. —PHOTOS BY RICHARD A. REYES AND MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

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With enough numbers and air of defiance to prompt the deployment of antiriot police, members of the transport group Manibela gather at Welcome Rotunda, a spot marking the boundary between Quezon City and Manila, for another protest action against the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program on Wednesday. —PHOTOS BY MARIANNE BERMUDEZ AND GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

AGRI TARIFF CUTS QUESTIONED

Sinag chair Rosendo So, legal counsel Virgie Lacsa Suarez, former Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor and Magsasaka Rep. Argel Cabatbat file a complaint at the Office of the Ombudsman in Quezon City on Wednesday against the Tariff Commission for grave misconduct and gross abuse of authority. They are mainly questioning the commission’s decision to cut the tariff on imported rice to 15 percent without first holding consultations or public hearings. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE