Outgoing Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones emphasized the need to review reforms on curriculum, as well as implement structural changes, in order to transform education and its systems. Education Secretary Leonor Briones (DepEd File Photo / Manila Bulletin) In a policy...
Finance Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said the government would need an additional P250-billion per year to bring down the government’s financing gap to a figure comparable to the pre-pandemic level of 3.4 percent. This developed as the Department of Finance (DOF) warned Tuesday, June 7, that...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday, June 7 urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct a deeper, more comprehesinve and investigation into the alleged falsified death certificates of the people who were killed under Duterte’s “war on drugs.” De Lima, a staunch critic of the...
Local farmers stood their ground reiterating that the P20 per kilo rice promise will not happen under the national government’s existing land reform program. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Farmers’ group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), on Tuesday, June 7, slammed the Department of...
House Ways and Means Committee chairman and Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda refuted on Monday, June 6 the claim made by the Department of Finance (DOF) that had Congress proposals pertaining to Covid-19 stimulus and subsidies been enacted, national debt would have climbed up to P15.4 trillion....
A MAKESHIFT hospital in a gym in Maasin, Iloilo when the province had a dengue outbreak in 2019. (Leo Solinap/File/Manila Bulletin) ILOILO CITY – Western Visayas or Region 6 recorded 297 new cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue in just one week. The Department of Health-Region 6 (DOH...
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) has launched the Space Infrastructure, Know-How, and Applications Acceleration through Promotion and Training project (SIKAP+) which seeks to enhance scientific cooperation in Asia. Photo courtesy of PhilSA In a statement, PhilSA stated that it specifically...
A team of local researchers and innovators in Jose Rizal Memorial State University – Tampilisan Campus (JRMSU-TC) Zamboanga del Norte has successfully developed a coconut dehusking technology that is actively looking for partners to distribute it. (Photo courtesy of DOST-STII) The technology,...
The Department of Finance (DOF) estimated that the national government’s debt could have been P2.2 trillion more had President Duterte supported the revenue-eroding proposals in Congress at the height of the pandemic. In a statement, Finance Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said that total debt...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday urged the incoming new administration of the Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure that existing laws and regulations are followed before giving its consent to the impending entry of the Razon-led Prime Infrastructure Holdings Inc. (Prime Infra) in the Malampaya...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Hr. vouched for the integrity of his fellow Cabinet member Menardo Guevarra as the Department of Justice (DOJ) worked on the case of detained outgoing Senator Leila de Lima. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra...
A phreatic explosion occured at Mt. Bulusan in Sorsogon province on June 5, 2022, prompting local government units to conduct assessment and information gathering for possible evacuation of residents. (Photo via Connie CalipayPNA) The Department of Health (DOH) advised the public, particularly...
