House Speaker Martin Romualdez (rightmost) rubs elbows with local beneficiaries during one of the many events of the "mega" Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair in Tacloban City ,Leyte on Friday (Speaker's office) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--"Ayuda" or...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center), in black poses with his fellow congressmen during the BPSF-Eastern Visayas (Speaker’s office) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--House of Representatives members could have held a well-attended...
TACLOBAN CITY – House Speaker Martin Romualdez led the launching of the Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Caravan for Eastern Visayas at the Leyte Sports Development Center here on Friday, August 2. "We want to see if this program is good, and if we will fund and continue this, and if this is what the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez leads the conduct of a previous BPSF (Speaker’s office) The House-organized Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fairs (PBSF) is going region-wide for the first time on Friday, Aug. 2, and the the event slated for Eastern...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Ranking members of the House of Representatives says the Marcos administration’s all-encompassing service caravan, the Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF), is “living proof”...
ILOILO CITY – More than P1 billion have been allocated for the development of barangays in Western Visayas cleared of the influence of communist insurgency. “These are formerly communist affected areas that have been cleared,” said Juan Jovian Ingeniero, regional director of the Department of...
The typhoon-induced torrential rains and flooding incidents in recent days might have plunged many Filipinos into a new realm of financial hardship - including those in Metro Manila, but the rollback in oil prices this week is expected to bring much needed relief to consumers’ squeezed budgets in...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) stressed disaster resilience in a recent exposition in Cebu City. “We believe that through science, technology, and innovation, resilience is possible and Filipinos can come out as disaster victors, not disaster victims,” said DOST...
The Philippine financial markets ground to a halt Wednesday, July 24, as Malacañang suspended operations in government offices due to Typhoon Carina and the southwest monsoon. In the early morning of Wednesday, the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) announced a trading suspension, while the Bangko...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is on track to issuing its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) sooner than anticipated after announcing the conclusion of the proof-of-concept phase by the end of this year. When asked if he can reconfirm if the BSP will be able to launch the CBDC within...
In light of Malacañang’s decision to suspend work in government offices on Wednesday, July 24, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has suspended dollar/peso trading and monetary operations. During this period, certain BSP services will remain operational: Bulk cash deposits, including...
The central bank said all eligible financial institutions (FIs) encountering timing mismatches in their transactions via the peso real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payment system can now avail of the fully-automated intraday settlement facility (ISF) to prevent gridlocks. The Bangko Sentral ng...
