The Department of Finance (DOF) expects the proposed sovereign wealth fund will be passed into law within the first semester next year despite oppositions seeking to block its creation. Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said on Monday, Dec. 5, said the proposed bill creating the Maharlika Wealth...
Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the General Trias City Jail will experience a festive Holiday season spirit with granted requests from the "PDL Christmas Wish Tree." General Trias City Jail warden Chief Insp. Williamere Villaester said that the ‘PDL Christmas Wish Tree’ was designed to...
A Quezon City congressman has filed a measure that's in line with President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s declaration during the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that food was “the very basis of human security". Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas (Facebook)...
Senators are in agreement that the country’s health workers deserve to receive a higher salary and be paid their benefits for their role in the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. But lawmakers cannot say if the government has sufficient funds to agree to their demands of a monthly minimum...
President Marcos has appointed Procopio Lipana as general manager of Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Lipana, who will replace Baltazar Melgar in the position, was among those appointed by the President for a new post in appointment papers signed recently. Meanwhile, Frisco San...
State-owned Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will adopt 25 public schools in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd). Wick Veloso, GSIS president and general manager, said that as of the pension fund’s corporate social responsibility called “Adopt-A-School Program”...
The Senate has terminated the plenary debates on the proposed P5.268-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) early Friday, November 18. On the last day of the period of interpellations, the Senate approved the budgets of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) at P9.7-billion; the Department...
The Senate has terminated the plenary debates on the proposed P5.268-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) early Friday, November 18. On the last day of the period of interpellations, the Senate approved the budgets of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) at P9.7-billion; the Department...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A six-year-old girl was killed in a fire that razed their house in Barangay Lagao here early Wednesday morning, Nov. 16. Senior Fire Officer 1 (SFO1) Perfecto Roda of the Bureau Fire Protection here said the victim, Casey Pantenople, was sleeping alone when the fire...
CEBU CITY – The new commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Visayas Command (Viscom) vowed an intensified anti-insurgency campaign especially in Eastern Visayas. MAJOR Gen. Benedict Arevalo answers questions from reporters after the turnover ceremony that installed him as commander of...
The Department of Public Works andHighways (DPWH) has completed a flood control project at the Porac River, which it said, will protect the low-lying areas in Floridablanca, Pampanga from flooding during heavy rains. DPWH Regional Office 3 Director Roseller A. Tolentino said the 171.3-lineal meter...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has named Atty. Ernesto Perez as the new director general of the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA). New ARTA Director General Ernesto Perez takes his oath of office before Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin. (Photo courtesy of the Office of the Press...
