Ahead of the implementation of face-to-face classes, health reform advocate Dr. Anthony “Tony” Leachon urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to prepare the ventilation of schools in the Philippines to protect teaching, non-teaching personnel, as well as the students from Covid-19. (Photo...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, we received some good news that among several bills that recently lapsed into law was the increase in the social pension for indigent senior citizens from the present ₱500 to ₱1,000 per month or from ₱6,000 to ₱12,000 annually. We filed this bill...
BAGUIO CITY (PNA) – The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) in Abra said it has closed most evacuation centers as people started returning to their homes and businesses went back to their normal operations more than a week after a strong quake jolted the province. Arnel...
Reviewing quarantine, isolation, and why these are still important CLINICAL MATTERS After a very quiet few months following the Omicron wave in January, cases are once again on the rise. Many of us were expecting thousands of cases shortly after elections but this never materialized. Indeed, WHO...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has resumed his presidential activities following his week-long mandatory isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos swears in Ambassador Manuel Antonio Teehankee as the Philippine Permanent Representative to the...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, July 12, announced that classes for school year (SY) 2022-2023 will begin on Aug. 22, 2022 and end on July 7, 2023. Photo taken at Cawayan Elementary School in Irosin, Sorsogon in December 2021 (OSDS – DepEd Sorsogon Province Official) DepEd has...
A comfortable life for all. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) This was what President Duterte vowed to give every Filipino when he took his oath as the country's 16th President in 2016. His presidency was anchored on ending illegal drugs, criminality, and corruption in three to six months....
Presidential candidate and survey frontrunner Bongbong Marcos urged Filipinos on Tuesday afternoon April 26 urged eligible Filipinos to get their booster shots, claiming that Covid-19 appeared to be "coming back". (Photos from MANILA BULLETIN, UniTeam) Marcos was holding practically his first...
EDITORS DESK Ramon Bonilla The gates are now open. Gone were the days when we were restrained to digital viewing of our favorite sporting spectacles that were staged in controlled environments — basking in bright lights but without the touch of fan interaction. An offbeat of what was supposed to...
HANOI, Vietnam -- Hundreds of thousands of children of kindergarten ages in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi returned to school on Wednesday after a months-long hiatus due to Covid-19. Unlike school pupils and university students, kindergarten children did not have online learning while the schools...
A Ukrainian mother wrote her contact details on the back of her daughter in case her family gets killed by Russian troops and her daughter survives it. Photo from Sasha Makoviy's Instagram account/ MANILA BULLETIN In an instagram post, Sasha Makoviy said she wrote her details on the back of her...
Presidential candidate Panfilo "Ping" Lacson has vowed to help the tourism industry bounce back from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic under his administration. Senator Ping Lacson (Facebook) Lacson gave this commitment, Monday, April 4 during his visit to the Odiongan Municipal Tourism...
