The progressive Makabayan bloc is pushing for a full scale congressional inquiry into the adverse audit findings made by the Commission on Audit in the the management by the Department of Health of the P67.32 billion anti-COVID 19 funds. Makabayan bloc image The resolution calling for the...
The leadership of the House of Representatives has asked the Commission on Audit to conduct a briefing on the reported audit deficiencies it discovered in the management by the Department of Health of the P67.32 billion government funds to address the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the...
Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Sunday, August 15 warned that more Filipinos would go hungry if the proposed budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA) is further slashed. Pangilinan is reacting to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reported plan to cut DA’s proposed...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) reported more than 14,000 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for two straight days already. Based on the latest case bulletin, there were 14,749 more cases of COVID-19 detected nationwide, pushing the number of active cases to 102,748. The country’s...
(Manila Bulletin File Photo) The Department of Health (DOH) announced on Sunday, August 15, the presence of the Lambda variant of the coronavirus in the Philippines. The DOH said that the first case of Lambda variant involves a 35-year-old woman and is “currently being validated as to whether she...
The Department of Education (DepEd) thanked Sunday, Aug. 15, the Commission on Audit (COA) for recognizing its efforts to comply with the current accounting standards. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd said it was grateful to the COA team that reviewed the financial and operational accounts of...
(JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) A group of nurses discouraged the plan of some healthcare workers to go on mass resignation amid the country’s ongoing battle against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “As much a possible, we don’t encourage them na gawin yan kasi ang...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Sunday, August 15 decried the audacity at which the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) warned of future increases in electricity rates if it continues to contract suppliers for larger power reserves. Hontiveros said she is wondering how the NGCP is bold...
A model for designing the country’s agricultural waste-based integrated biorefinery (IBR) has been developed under a research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP). (DOST-NRCP) The DOST-NRCP said the research team, led...
The reimposition of stricter movement restrictions will put further pressure on the local labor market that gingerly recovered with the easing of quarantine measures since April, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. In an economic bulletin, Finance Undersecretary Gil S. Beltran said the two-week...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has clarified that the reported backlog in the production of license plates is primarily due to budget constraints of the Land Transportation Office (LTO). (Photo from the Department of Transportation) The clarification was made after the Commission on Audit...
DOH/MB The Philippines recorded 14,249 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Saturday, August 14, the second highest single-day tally since the pandemic hit the country. The new cases pushed the country’s total number of confirmed cases to 1,727,231, of which, 5.7 percent or 98,847 are...
