The education sector will get the highest budgetary allocation for next year at P773.6 billion while health programs under the Department of Health and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation become only the fourth in the list of budgetary priorities with P242 billion expected to be earmarked...
Malacañang has submitted to Congress a proposed national budget of P5.04 trillion for the fiscal year (FY) 2022, the biggest budget that the executive branch has ever asked for. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In his press briefing on Monday, August 23, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque bared that...
Regular plenary sessions of the House of Representatives resume on Monday, August 23 with the chamber’s leadership expecting the submission by the executive department of the National Expenditure Program containing the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022. House of Representatives...
It looks like a work of art After dominating the Miss Elegance and preliminary competition of Miss Supranational 2021 pageant, Filipino beauty queen Dindi Pajares now wows netizens with the reveal of her national costume. Dindi Pajares in her national costume (Photo by Gian Eduard) Crafted by...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that its consular offices (CO) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and all Temporary Off-Site Passport Services (TOPS) facilities will now resume operations after the region was downgraded to a less stringent quarantine classification. (FILE...
President Duterte revealed that he has fired National Electrification Administration (NEA) Administrator Edgardo Masongsong for allegedly allowing electric cooperatives to contribute funds for a party-list campaign in the 2019 elections. President Duterte (ROEMARI LIMOSNERO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is all set for the strict implementation of granular lockdowns after the National Capital Region (NCR) eased to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) on Saturday, Aug. 21. Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, Chief of the Philippine National Police (File photo...
The executive department's proposal for a P240-billion budget for coronavirus response next year might have to go through the needle hole as senators doubt its ability to fully spend it. Senator Juan Edgardo 'Sonny' Angara (Henzberg Austria/Senate PRIB) Senator Juan Edgardo "Sonny" Angara, chairman...
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will once again breathe life into Filipino folk tales through an online storytelling event in time with the celebration of this year’s “Buwan ng Wika.” (Photo from National Commission for Culture and the Arts) The program, dubbed “Sa...
Regular sessions in the House of Representatives will resume Monday, August 23, the expected date for the submission by the Duterte administration of the proposed 2022 national budget of P5.024 trillion, the highest in the country's history. House of Representatives4 In a memorandum issued by...
"An extra hour is not enough to decide our future." Students from the De La Salle University (DLSU) and Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) denounced Commission on Elections' (Comelec) decision to reject voter registration extension. (DLSU / AdMU) On Wednesday, Aug. 18, Comelec extended voters hours...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is now trying to reach out to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) as certain sand and gravel quarry sites start to threaten several irrigation projects in the country....
