Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sonny Angara on Friday, December 5, visited two high-performing public schools in Las Piñas City to observe successful literacy and feeding initiatives that the agency aims to scale up nationwide. Angara’s visits included Moonwalk Elementary School and...
The Department of National Defense (DND) on Monday, Oct. 27, accused “foreign-backed quarters” of orchestrating efforts to circulate false narratives about supposed military intervention in politics to sow division and weaken the country’s democratic institutions. “Foreign-backed quarters...
As part of its intensified efforts to address the declining reading proficiency in Philippine schools, the Department of Education (DepEd) is set to launch the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL)-Reading Program this school year. Aiming to improve literacy skills among Grades 1 to 10...
Amid growing concerns over declining literacy rates and post-pandemic learning recovery, education advocates on Friday, May 30, called on the Department of Education (DepEd) to expand its reading intervention programs to better support struggling and transitioning readers across all grade levels....
More than 11,000 residents of the California Garden Square (CGS) condominium in Mandaluyong City, are intensifying their call on the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for immediate intervention to prevent disconnection of their electricity services. The urgent plea to the regulatory body followed...
SAGIP Party-List Representative Rodante Marcoleta (House of Representatives) Rodante Marcoleta, 69, is now on his sixth term as the Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty (SAGIP) Partylist representative. The SAGIP Partylist lists as its goals "poverty reduction, social protection...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez has been mighty impressed with President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s "articulation of the Philippine position on various issues" so far in the ongoing 40th and 41st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and related summits in Cambodia. President...
NEW YORK, United States – Thousands of people gathered Saturday in Times Square in New York in support of Ukraine, demanding the United States, NATO or the European Union intervene to stop the unfolding war. Some were Ukrainian-American, while others were just New Yorkers who wanted to...
Positive government intervention will be needed to help micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs)--which account for a huge chunk of the local labor force--recover from the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Senator Panfilo Lacson Senator Panfilo Lacson, Partido Reporma...
PROMDI Party standard-bearer Senator Manny Pacquiao has accepted the conditions set by House Deputy Speaker and CIBAC Party-list Rep. Bro. Eddie Villanueva for the latter to become the anti-corruption czar under a Pacquiao government. Senator Manny Pacquiao in a community forum in Taytay But first,...
The country’s slow internet speed needs “government intervention” to eliminate the congressional franchise requirement and build common towers in hardship areas, presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo said on Monday, Jan. 31. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) If she wins the...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) has defended the policy shift on contact tracing, saying that the strategy is now “impractical” and that efforts should be more focused on “high-impact” activities such as vaccination. “When there is widespread community transmission and it is sustained,...
