The Senate subcommittee on finance has approved the proposed budget of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) for 2024. The DMW has proposed a P15.542-billion appropriation for next year. Of the amount, P11.9-billion would be allocated to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Sunday, Sept. 17, released the list of schools that will participate in the pilot implementation of the revised K to 10 curriculum this school year. DepEd / MB Visual Content Group The pilot implementation in these selected schools will start on Sept. 25...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 vowed to suppress the drug menace alongside the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and stakeholders in Caraga region. PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Kirby John B. Kraft, DILG-Caraga officials, and...
The House plenary hall (Contributed photo) It's basically all systems go for the plenary debates of the P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for 2024 after the House Committee on Appropriations approved on Thursday morning, Sept. 14 the schedule for the...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024 contains P2.398 trillion in Special Purpose Funds (SPF), the lion's share of which will go to local government units (LGUs). This was learned by the Congressional Policy and...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) After 33 days, the House Committee on Appropriations adjourned on Tuesday night, Sept. 12 its grueling per agency budget deliberations on the proppsed 2024 national budget. "Madam chairman, I move...
Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) has formally launched its scholarship program for students and professionals who will be pursuing graduate studies or mid-career academic degrees in nuclear engineering at top-tier universities and institutions overseas. The scholarship program,...
Ombudsman Samuel Martires (Screenshot from YouTube live) The Office of the Ombudsman set itself apart from other agencies in the ongoing House budget hearings by explicitly saying that it won't ask the solons for more money in terms of appropriations for next...
The Department of Education (DepEd) has released guidelines on the pilot implementation of the revised K to 10 curriculum under the K to 12 program starting this school year. DepEd file photo Signed by Undersecretary for Curriculum and Teaching Gina Gonong, DepEd issued Memorandum No. 54, s....
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will begin implementing the 13th feeding cycle for the Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) in the second week of September, which is expected to boost the nutritional needs of approximately 1.8 million children. Children enrolled in Child...
A rice vendor at Paco Market in Manila (Photo by Arnold Quizol / Manila Bulletin) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will distribute P15,000 cash assistance to small and micro rice retailers in four Metro Manila cities starting on Saturday, Sept. 9. “Ang DSWD ay handang-handa...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Count on independent minority solon Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman to find wayward, "out of this world" items in the proposed national budget. During the deliberation on the Department of Public Works and Highways' (DPWH) proposed...
