Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Jaison N. Bustarde works as a professional senior hairstylist. Aside from that, he's also a father and keeps himself busy vlogging and sharing informative hair care tips on TikTok. But Mark was looking for something more, he wanted to find his purpose and he was able to...
Government interventions in the highly vulnerable farm sector may be “too little or too late", which may be the reason for the sector's 1.4 percent decline in 2020. This is according to Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) National Manager Raul Montemayor, who said the Department of...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has waived P156 million toll fees for doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, and other medical workers using its expressways in the past 10 months. Now, the toll operator will allow 10,400 medical frontliners to use the newly-opened Skyway 3 for free indefinitely,...
Coconut farmers are coming up with a position paper that will formally ask President Rodrigo Duterte to veto Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund or the Coco Levy Act, which will pave the way for the release of the P100-billion Coco Levy Fund. (MB FILE, Keith Bacongco) Pambansang Kaisahan ng...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) increased the rollout of its Free Wi-Fi for All Program (FW4A) by 500 percent last year. For 2020 alone, the DICT put up 4,305 live sites within the year, bringing the total to 7,556 active live sites as of December 28, 2020. From...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it’s only a matter of time before the majority of the country's farmers bid farewell to farming due to old age, and that the agriculture sector will soon be taken over by millennials. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said since the average age of...
Year-Ender Agriculture Secretary William Dar (MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines' agriculture sector has survived a volcano eruption that blanketed tons of farm yield with ashes and sustained production within three quarters into the pandemic, but it only took three typhoons to expose its...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking lawmakers’ imprimatur for it to be allowed to import Covid-19 vaccine tax-free as these doses will be used for its employees. NGCP President Anthony L. Almeda said with this gesture from the State, businesses would...
Even if a group of farmers in the Philippines said it may take a while for them to recover from Quinta, Rolly, and Ulysses, a foreign agency is convinced that these typhoons that struck the country last month will not have a significant impact on next year’s production. “The recent...
Switzerland, one of the highest per capita countries in the world, has identified processed food, natural ingredients and value-added textiles as potential products that Philippines can export to their country and into the larger EU countries. Photo credit: https://www.sippo.ch/ A recent study by...
The senate proposal to use excess rice tariff collections exclusively for cash aid for farmers may be discriminatory to some farmers, a top official from the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) said. In a statement, FFF National Manager Raul Montemayor said the proposal, which is contained in...
The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) senate-approved budget for 2021 is P86 billion, which is only 30 percent of the agency’s original budget proposal of P280 billion. In a statement, DA said the senate in a plenary session approved the proposed P85.58-billion budget of the DA, including those...
