The Department of Finance (DOF) estimated that the rate of increase in consumer prices, which has been stuck at higher levels for three consecutive months, would decline for the first time in June amid diminishing low-base effect. Finance Undersecretary and Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said on...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Thursday, June 10, creating the Social Protection Program for Teenaged Mothers and Their Children (SPPTMC). (Pixabay) SPPTMC is mandated under...
The Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday assured it is investigating if there is indeed possible collusion among power distribution firms to ascertain if this is the cause of the recent rotational brownouts that occurred in Luzon. DOE chief Alfonso Cusi told the Senate Energy Committee the agency...
A health worker prepares to administer a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination site in Paranaque City on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) reiterated that all coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that are already approved in the Philippines are safe and...
Senator Nancy Binay on Thursday urged the Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to fast track the release of all coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in stock to help address the increased demand among A4 priority groups. Binay lamented some local government units (LGUs) are...
The National Soil Health Program (NSHP), which intends to rejuvenate the country’s degraded and “sick” soil, has received the green light from President Duterte, the Department of Agriculture (DA) bared Wednesday, June 9. (Photo courtesy of DA) The NSHP will be implemented by the DA through...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade has reiterated his warning against "fixers" and fake license pages that have been proliferating on social media platforms. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade (Ali Vicoy / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Tugade said he has been...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
The Department of Health (DOH), academe, and private sector are pushing for digital solutions to "effectively manage coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases" and to improve the country's healthcare system. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Alethea De Guzman, Director of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau, said...
The Philippine government's recent mining policies appear to have weakened the protective and accountability elements of regulating mining in the Philippines . This is according to Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), which expressed dismay over new mining policies being pushed by the Department of...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) said it does not consider Davao City as an "epicenter" of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the continuous spike of infections in the area. "Davao City is not an epicenter," said DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Wednesday, June 9. Vergeire said...
President Duterte's first impression about Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar was wrong. President Rodrigo Duterte leads the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the NLEX-SLEX Connector Road Project in Caloocan City on February 28, 2019. Assisting the President are Public...
