The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help local governments in improving their capacity to provide high-quality public services, especially during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. ADB HQ In a statement, the Manila-based multilateral institution said Friday, Aug.27, that it has approved...
Senators on Thursday, Aug. 26, said they are banking on the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines would be distributed equally to different regions in the Philippines once the government receives the 25 million doses of jabs that will arrive beginning September. Senate...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is now trying to reach out to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) as certain sand and gravel quarry sites start to threaten several irrigation projects in the country....
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, August 16 pressed for a faster completion of a centralized database of fully vaccinated individuals saying the issue of a lack of a unified vaccination card is something that should have been addressed by the government before. Gatchalian lamented there are...
The Duterte administration should stop undermining the autonomy of local government units (LGUs) and proceed to rationalize the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to expedite the country’s full recovery from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Senator Risa Hontiveros made the call as she slammed...
As the government ramps up the inoculation drive as defense against the coronavirus spread, President Duterte has appealed to local government officials to make sure people lining up for vaccination are safe and protected. As the capital enters into a two-week enhanced community quarantine, people...
President Duterte has ordered the swift and orderly distribution of cash subsidy to poor residents affected by the hard lockdown in Metro Manila. As enhanced community quarantine took effect in the capital region, people line up at a vaccination site located at Justo Lukban elementary school in...
Malacañang asked local chief executives to not blame President Duterte for the incident last week where people flocked to different vaccination sites in fear of not being allowed to go out during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO /...
A Manila health worker prepares to administer a single-shot Johnson & Johnson's Janssen coronavirus vaccine during the inoculative drive at the Justo Lucban Elementary School in Manila on July 21, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The World Health Organization (WHO) Philippines has called on...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has begun augmenting the resources of the local government units (LGUs) to assist the tens of thousands of families from the country’s six regions affected by the southwest monsoon rains enhanced by typhoon "Fabian." Personnel of the...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the local government units (LGus) have so far provided more than P3.87-million worth of relief assistance to the families affected by flooding caused by monsoon rains and enhanced by typhoon “Fabian”. (DSWD-DROMIC Facebook page) The...
President Duterte asked local government units (LGUs) to come up with a "more sane" method in vaccinating their constituents during rainy days as he noted they let the people queue in the flood for their anti-coronavirus (COVID-19) shot. President Duterte tells local government units (LGUs) to be...
