House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Monday, Dec. 21 strongly endorsed the grant of bail to convicts who have reached their twilight years or those who have become sickly while serving their sentence. Makabayan bloc2 Zarate aired the proposal in reaction to the...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is planning to tap the World Bank disaster response loan to fund the rehabilitation efforts in Typhoon Odette- affected areas. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said they will activate the $500 million in contingency loan from World Bank that the government...
Deputy Speaker and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Monday, Dec. 20 called on the Senate to fast track the approval of its version of the Permanent Evacuation Centers Bill that proposes to ensure safe and secured evacuation venues for victims of typhoons and other natural and man-made...
The Department of Finance (DOF) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed a loan for disaster risk reduction at the local level, as well as disaster preparedness and response. In a statement on Monday, Dec. 20, the DOF said that the €250 million policy-based loan,...
Carlos Marin Carlos Marin, a member of classical crossover vocal group Il Divo, has passed away. This was announced by the three remaining members of Il Divo on Facebook on Dec. 20. The cause of death was not made clear, though reports in Spanish media suggested Marín was intubated after being...
Gen. Dionardo Carlos, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered all police commanders in devastated by typhoon "Odette" to help the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in enforcing the price freeze of basic goods. At the same time, Carlos warned local businessmen against taking...
Chef Carlos Garcia of the Black Pig is back with a vengeance Chef Carlos Garcia and Tiago's tasting menu After over a year of preparing local comfort food staples for quarantining travelers, he’s back to flexing his creative culinary skills at Tiago’s at Somerset Alabang. We were treated to a...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is confident that the higher 7 percent economic growth target set by the Duterte administration for the year is doable given the renewed consumer and business confidence in the last quarter. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said on Wednesday, Dec. 15, that...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) will be deploying its personnel to observe in the conduct of the nationwide mock elections on Dec. 29. The move, according to PNP Chief General Dionardo Carlos, is aimed at providing policemen concerned the opportunity to observe the actual flow of process for...
House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Saturday, Nov. 11 called the attention of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on “glaring errors” found in the newly-released P1,000 bill. Zarate found the two errors referring to the image of the Philippine eagle as “quite...
Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) commended the proposal of the Department of Finance (DOF) for multilateral development banks (MDBs) to work together in incentivizing private capital flows for climate projects of developing countries. In a letter to Finance Secretary Carlos...
It was supposed to be a normal family gathering with the one-year old girl as the center of their attention in Manapla town of Negros Occidental on Sunday night, Dec. 5. But all of a sudden, the girl slump on the floor with her head bleeding from what turned out to be a bulletwound. A few minutes...
