The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported Saturday, July 3, that more than 860 families or almost 3,300 individuals have been displaced by Taal Volcano’s magmatic unrest. Residents in Laurel, Batangas take temporary shelter at Barangay Ticub Elementary School on July 1,...
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto announced on Friday that the city government launched its new IT system integrating all city health centers' medical records into one database. (Photo from Mayor Vico Sotto Facebook) The improvement aims to ease the burden of manually searching the medical records of any...
Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista has personally visited some evacuation centers in the municipalties of Laurel and Agoncillo in Batangas province to personally look into situation of the evacuee-families. DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) reiterated its commitment to help the government in the rollout of its vaccination program against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The Kabaka Center in Pandacan, Manila is one of the six 'Bakuna Centers' of Philippine Red Cross in Metro Manila. (Photo from PH Red...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Speaking before the Regis CEO Roundtable Series last May 18, Fernando Zobel de Ayala (FZA), President and CEO of Ayala Corporation, disclosed that “two of Ayala’s most cyclical businesses – Ayala Land and BPI – are priming themselves for a post-pandemic...
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno's controversial statement seeking to exclude face shield in the minimum public health safety protocol is just a suggestion and not a demand from the government, an official of the D epartment of Interior and Local Government (DILG) official clarified Thursday, June 3. In a...
Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid is now seeking passage of a bill seeking to amend the “Go Negosyo Act” or Republic Act No. 10644, to expand the scope of the services provided by the Negosyo Centers by empowering them to act as rural export centers. Currently, these “Negosyo” Centers,...
A total of 51,645 Philippine National Police (PNP) and Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) personnel will be dispatched to provide security and support to the national vaccination program which will soon include the A4 category, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Sunday,...
Good news to all Filipinos in the countryside. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has allocated more than P540 million for the establishment of research and development centers in a bid to catalyze innovation and development in the countryside. DOST The DOST announced that it has...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. urged the public to keep on wearing their face masks as if the country has no vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) yet. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (AP Photo / Sakchai Lalit / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Locsin made the...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the local government units (LGUs) have so far provided relief assistance amounting to more than P1.72 million to the families affected by Typhoon “Bising" in the country's four regions. The DSWD’s Disaster Response Operations...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has prepared a list of all evacuation centers in Metro Manila where displaced individuals can seek temporary shelter from typhoon "Ulysses." PHOTO FROM BARANGAY POBLACION, MUNTINLUPA FACEBOOK PAGE/MANILA BULLETIN The DSWD-NCR Disaster Response...
