The congestion rate of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP)-manned jail facilities has significantly decreased from 612 percent in 2017 to 387 percent this year, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. said on Tuesday, July 21....
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER The Covid-19 positivity rates in five provinces in the country have increased to over 20 percent, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David said on Sunday, July 17. Positivity rate refers to the number of individuals who yielded positive results from among those who were tested for...
DAVAO CITY – The Covid-19 positivity rate here increased to 5.6 percent as of Wednesday, July 13, an official of the local Covid-19 Task Force said. Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson for the Davao City Covid-19 Task Force, said the recent positivity rate, which is now above the acceptable...
Metro Manila’s Covid-19 positivity rate has increased from 10.9 percent to 11.5 percent as of July 13, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said on Thursday, July 14. This increase in the positivity rate could lead to over 1,000 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, July 14, said David in a tweet....
(SCREEN GRAB FROM LAGING HANDA PUBLIC BRIEFING) Despite the Covid positivity rate in Metro Manila exceeding the World Health Organization standard of 5 percent, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David said that the region is still managing through the situation well. Metro Manila’s positivity rate, or the...
The Covid-19 positivity rate in Metro Manila has increased to more than 10 percent, the OCTA Research Group said on Saturday, July 9. OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David posted on his official Twitter page that Metro Manila had a positivity rate of 10.4 percent on July 7 as compared to the...
Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Thursday, July 7 expressed his belief it is high-time that the government should also prioritize coming up with a cash subsidy scheme for low to medium income class workers who are also reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, series of oil price...
A VENDOR wearing a face shield sells vegetables in a market in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – Living in Western Visayas (Region 6) is expensive, at least for the time being. Inflation – the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time – in the region is higher than the...
The number of unemployed Filipinos climbed in May as there were not enough jobs for the growing working-age population entering the labor market, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed on Thursday, July 7. Based on the PSA’s May 2022 Labor Force Survey, the country’s...
Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno clarified that President Marcos is not disputing the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) June inflation report, saying the chief executive only misinterpreted the data given to him. In a televised interview over ANC on Wednesday, July 6, Diokno explained...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-10 reported Monday, July 4, a significant decrease in the crime rate in Northern Mindanao from January to June this year. The regional headquarters of Police Regional Office 10 located at Camp 1Lt. Vicente G. Alagar, Barangay Lapasan, Cagayan...
Economist-congressman Joey Salceda of Albay's 2nd district believes he has a better way of tackling the inflation problem. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) This, as the solon prodded the economic team of newly-inaugurated President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to focus on...
