People now feel safer with the lower crime rate and improved police crime busting efficiency, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año stressed Monday, night Oct. 25. In a briefing with the President, Año said that the crime rate is down by 34 percent...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday ruled out dissolving the House of Representatives for a general election anytime soon given Japan's current severe COVID-19 situation, local media reported. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (Xinhua) Suga also said the ruling...
A man caught smoking in public was arrested by the police when they discovered suspected shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) in his possession in Taguig on Monday. The Taguig police identified the suspect as Froilan Talavera, 38, of Buting, Pasig City, who was nabbed during an “Oplan Galugad”...
Regular plenary sessions of the House of Representatives resume on Monday, August 23 with the chamber’s leadership expecting the submission by the executive department of the National Expenditure Program containing the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022. House of Representatives...
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles on Friday, July 9 called on government to move for the adoption of the US State Department’s recommendations to eliminate human trafficking in the Philippines notwithstanding improving its efforts towards this end. Human Trafficking image Nograles, vice...
The government intends to halt rice importation during the local harvest season to help protect farmers, according to a Palace official. (File photo/Keith Bacongco/Manila Bulletin) Presidential spokesman Harry Roque explained that rice importation will only be carried out after the domestic harvest...
The country's tariff rates on imported rice and pork products will be adjusted for a year in a bid to boost food supply and keep prices affordable, Malacañang announced Saturday. President Rodrigo Duterte skims through a document as he presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on...
National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 chief implementer, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. acknowledged on Thursday night, May 13 that the entire population of the Philippines would have to be vaccinated if it wants to totally eliminate the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Vaccine czar, Secretary...
The Pasay City Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office (DRRMO) is seeing a marked decline in the admission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the city’s four isolation facilities on May 4. Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano (Facebook / Pasay PIO / MANILA BULLETIN) Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano...
DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo bB Ali Vicoy) Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Center (PMVIC) owners on Feb. 11 heeded the call of Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade to lower their current inspection fees for private vehicles from P1,500-P1,800, to P600 while there is a...
DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade (Photo bB Ali Vicoy) Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade today (Feb. 11) appealed to private vehicle inspections centers (PMVICs) to lower their inspection fees for private vehicles registering with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) from...
