With the Senate leading the review of economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution, and the push for People's Initiative to amend the Charter going south, is the P14-billion under the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) 2024 budget still needed? In an interview on Tuesday, Jan. 16, Sen. Imee Marcos,...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Tuesday, Jan. 16, announced the date and venue of the face-to-face mass oath-taking of the newly licensed civil engineers. PRC / Manila Bulletin In a Facebook post, the oathtaking ceremony will be held on Jan. 17, at the Ritz Hotel, Garden Oases in...
(MANILA BULLETIN) With the Philippines estimated to have an aging population by 2030, Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. has stressed the need to establish hospitals especially catered to the elderly. "I have long advocated for the establishment of a...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced on Tuesday, Jan. 16, the date and venue for the in-person mass oathtaking ceremony for new agricultural and biosystems engineers. PRC / Manila Bulletin The commission said that the oathtaking ceremony will take place on Jan. 18 at 8 a.m. The...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced on Tuesday, Jan. 16, the date of the online oath-taking ceremony of new geologists. PRC / Manila Bulletin In a Facebook post, the PRC announced that the oathtaking ceremony would be on Jan. 18 via Microsoft Teams or Zoom at 9 a.m. The...
The Joint Congressional Energy Commission (JCEC) will convene to review and decide on the various proposals seeking to amend or revoke the franchise of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), Senator Raffy Tulfo said. Tulfo, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy,...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go said that the P5-million increase in the 2024 budget of the National Youth Commission (NYC) had been earmarked for the Philippine Youth Development Plan Advocacy Project aimed at engaging and empowering youth leaders. Go said that he has successfully advocated for...
The penalties being collected by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has been proposed to be re-channeled as compensation to consumers who are casualties of blackout incidents, similar to the four-day power failure which plunged Western Visayas into a state of economic vulnerability and...
Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman Richard Bachmann and Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) National Chairman Rev. Fr. Vicente Uy formally signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) in strengthening the agency’s grassroots sports initiative. (Seated from left) PSC Commissioner...
The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) urged local governments to establish economic zones to attract investments and create jobs to reduce poverty in the Philippines. Photo from NAPC "We urge the local government to have economic zones to welcome investments coming into their...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said tougher penalties should be imposed against industry players who would be found guilty of mismanaging their power services that eventually affect day-to-day businesses and hurt the economy. Gatchalian pointed out that the maximum penalty of P50-million...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has told congressmen that the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has complied with the requirements of an independent investigative panel on the April 2023 blackout on Panay...
