Another cargo of life-saving coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines--this time branded Sputnik V--have arrived in the country on Friday, Aug. 13. Photo from MIAA Photo from MIAA A total of 15,000 of the Sputnik jabs touched down at 4:50 p.m. at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3....
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said it has completed over half of the airport projects covered by its memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for the period of 2015 to 2018. (Photo from CAAP Facebook page) The authority bared this detail as...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) have teamed up with Grab Philippines to boost vaccine confidence among transport workers by giving out rewards and benefits to those who will get the jab. (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) rolled out on Thursday, Aug. 12 a two-day vaccination program in San Fernando City, Pampanga which aims to inoculate at least a thousand active tourism workers there. (Photo from Department of Tourism) Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat led the vaccination...
More than 2.5 million school children have benefited from the government's milk feeding program, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Friday, August 13. (Photo courtesy of the DA-PCC) Jointly implemented by the Department of Education (DepEd) and DA through its National Dairy Authority (NDA) and...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed a total of 84 criminal charges against suspected tax cheats before the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the first half of 2021 for refusal to settle tax debts amounting to P3.1 billion. (Photo by Roth Melinda/ Unsplash) The BIR also padlocked 274 firms...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has threatened Friday, Aug. 13 to deport the foreigner who stripped down and ran naked along the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT) northbound track toward Boni Avenue in Mandaluyong City. (Screengrab from video of Facebook user Panda Preecs) BI Commissioner Jaime Morente...
The Philippines has tallied the highest losses in the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region in terms of working hours in 2020, a new study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) said. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) "The Philippines saw the largest working hour...
Here's some good news for Filipinos who are eyeing employment in the American territory of Guam. Tumon Bay, Guam (Photo by Huang Junsheng/ Unsplash) Labor Attaché in Los Angeles, Armi Evangel Peña bared on Friday, Aug. 13 that the prospects for employment in Guam will be bright for overseas...
Local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila that have finished inoculating their target population from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) should accept and accommodate unvaccinated individuals from other LGUs in the metropolis. MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos (2nd from left, standing) oversees the...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has warned the public against suspicious and unauthorized websites engaged in the dissemination of false information such as advertising job openings in the armed service. The Coast Guard District Northern Mindanao (CGDNM) said it has monitored some unofficial...
A total of 578,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered to the Philippines on Friday morning, Aug. 13. (Photo from MIAA) (Photo from MIAA) The British-Swedish vaccines arrived at 9:35 a.m. via a China Airlines flight at Terminal 1 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Pasay...
