ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants going beyond the time allowance prescribed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). In a Congressional hearing on...
A health worker prepares to administer a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination site in Manila on May 14, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/ Manila Bulletin) The national government is set to expand its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination to essential workers or those under the A4 priority group on Monday,...
Senator Cynthia Villar on Sunday, June 6, reiterated her call for the government to come up with a solid waste management strategy to address the overwhelming volume of plastic wastes, which remains a major environmental problem for the Philippines. “A 2015 University of Georgia study revealed...
The government's pandemic task force has allowed those who received their two doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in the Philippines to re-enter the country, Malacañang said. Returning Overseas Filipino Workers at the NAIA (Ted ALJIBE / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, Presidential...
The government's pandemic task force has allowed the Philippine Racing Commission (PhilRaCom) to have two more racing days starting next month. In a statement, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases allowed the...
The Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has placed Davao City and General Santos City under stricter quarantine classifications due to the rise of cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO /...
For TMC South Luzon, the hospital wins two awards at the Healthcare Asia Awards 2021 The Medical City 2020 was the year of the frontliners. The world witnessed how hospitals grappled with dwindling resources, increasing morbidity and mortality, and a decimated healthcare workforce as the virus...
Governments must make data-driven decisions to allow tested or vaccinated persons to travel while avoiding quarantine measures for the rest, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged. IATA teamed-up with Airbus and Boeing to develop data-driven risk-management models to keep...
The national government is pursuing the full devolution of the provision of basic services and facilities to local government units before the end of 2024. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) President Duterte has signed Executive Order No. 138 directing that certain functions of...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
Over 1.2 million travelers have registered at the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) online travel management system or Safe, Swift and Smart Passage (S-PaSS). S-PaSS (from DOST) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said as of May 26, there has been a total of 1,250,336...
The government's pandemic task force has approved the recommendation refining the list of people belonging to the A4 Priority Group of the country's vaccination program against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). A health worker prepares to administer a coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination site in...
