Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi is supporting the proposal for the non-mandatory wearing of face shields. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benhur Abalos said on Monday, Nov. 8, that the official position of the 17 Metro Manila mayors during their meeting on Nov. 7 was to do away...
House Assistant Minority Leader Rep. Arlene Brosas of Gabriela partylist slammed the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) proposal to exclude unvaccinated Filipinos from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) saying it is a "lousy scheme to cover up the Duterte administration's...
Damn if you do, damn if you don’t. This seemed to be the message of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año as critics are apparently insinuating that the government is to blame if cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Metro Manila would go up after...
Senators on Sunday shot down a proposal of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to exclude beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In separate interviews on Radio DZBB, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) should take the lead in defending the beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program against the Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) “iron-fist” policies, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Sunday....
A new strategy to ramp up the national vaccination program is in the offing. Authorities will bring the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in the barangays as the country faces the herculean challenge of ramping up the program and enticing more people to get inoculated in the areas...
Members of the House of Representatives are urged by the University of the Philippines (UP) Board of Regents to declare as null and void the motion for reconsideration on the approval of House Bill No. 10171 which would institutionalize the abrogated University of the Philippines-Department of...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Sec. Eduardo Año reiterated Friday, Nov. 5, that the improving coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation in Metro Manila is enough proof to take risks and downgrade the National Capital Region (NCR) to Alert Level 2 although the government...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has vowed to push for the exclusion of the use of face shield in the health protocol for the prevention of infection from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the improving situation in the country. In a news briefing on Thursday, Nov....
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is eyeing faulty electrical wiring as one of the possible reasons in the fire that hit Zamboanga del Sur Provincial Health Office blaze where over 148,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses were destroyed. BFP Region 9 Director Senior Supt. Renato Marcial said they are not...
Negligent local government units (LGUs) with poor daily coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) inoculation record will be investigated through the issuance of show-cause orders, Department of the Interior and Local (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Thursday, Nov. 4. Año specifically pointed out to...
The race is on! Five names of senior officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have been recommended to President Duterte as possible replacement to Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar who is set to retire on November 13. “I already submitted to the President the list of five names recommended...