The Senate on Monday, March 4 adopted three concurrent resolutions favoring President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s grant of amnesty to various rebel and insurgent groups in the country. The Senate’s concurrence happened less than three months after the President signed the presidential...
STI Holdings, owner of the largest network of private schools in the Philippines, said it has decided to acquire the Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA) in both Quezon City and Manila as a strategic move aimed at bolstering business and entrepreneurship education in the country....
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Sunday, March 3 said it is high-time President Marcos leads the government in rationalizing all cash assistance programs for the poor and the marginalized to minimize corruption and remove partisan politics from it. Considering that...
The Marcos administration registered a reduction in the budget deficit last year, with revenues growing significantly faster than expenditures, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. In 2023, the national government's fiscal deficit stood at P1.512 trillion, a 6.3 percent decrease from the...
STI Education Systems Holdings Inc. is acquiring Philippine School of Business Administration (PSBA) in Manila and Quezon cities for a yet undisclosed amount. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), STI aid its board of directors has ratified the execution of a Term Sheet with...
President Marcos has appointed lawyer Jose Moises Salonga as the new administrator of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), which promotes and oversees the development of water supply systems in provincial cities and municipalities. LWUA website Marcos appointed Salonga to the post on...
Senator Nancy Binay said that she's not comfortable with Senator Robin Padilla's recent statement regarding Mariel Padilla's intravenous glutathione (IV gluta) drip procedure at the Senate wherein he claimed that his wife "loves to promote good looks and good health". "I think medyo I’m not...
ILOILO CITY – The National Irrigation Administration-6 is investigating the death of a water tank driver in a road accident in the Iloilo mega dam project in Calinog, Iloilo. A ROAD within the mega dam project site in Calinog town, Iloilo province. (NIA-6 JRMP-II) The Project Management Office...
Energy access is a major game-changer in empowering a country – but the depressing fact remains that more than a billion people globally still don’t have access to electricity services – a basic need that marginal segments of populations – or those in the ‘laylayan’ are morally being...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is courting investments from the British International Investment (BII) for the development of the Magat and Pantabangan dams. NIA Administrator Eduardo Guillen said on Tuesday, Feb. 13, said the agency is inviting investment in various water...
Cleansing from misdeeds as well as review of categorization of the country’s more than 120 electric cooperatives (ECs) are being pushed following reports of less-than-desired operational outcomes of these power utilities. The call was put forward by Senate Committee on Energy Vice Chairman...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director General Samuel Zacate on Tuesday, Feb. 13 said the agency has extended the license to operate (LTO) and certificate of product registration (CPR) renewal period from three years to five years. (FDA) "Now it will be increased to five years initial to 10...
