The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) targets to fully implement its 10-year Maritime Development Plan (MIDP) by 2028 to boost the Philippines’ maritime industry by 100 percent. This will increase the sector's contribution to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from P720 billion to date...
Metro Manila mayors and other government agencies have agreed to fully implement a comprehensive traffic plan to ease congestion in the National Capital Region (NCR) in anticipation of improved economic activities in the next five years. Lawyer Romando Artes, acting chairman of the Metropolitan...
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has assured Malacañang that the Marcos administration’s development plan will be ready for implementation beginning next year. In a briefing with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. last Nov. 15, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio M....
The current administration is expected to present the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2023 to 2028 next month. (Photo courtesy of the Office of the Press Secretary) Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan , who also heads the National Development and Economic Authority (NEDA),...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) lauded on Thursday, Nov. 10, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) for its major contribution to the successes of the National Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (NAP P/CVE). In a statement, the DILG...
NEDA identifies top priorities in PDP 2023-2028 By Chino S. Leyco The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said social protection and human capital development will be among top priorities in the short to medium term under the upcoming Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2023-2028....
The Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, Aug. 12 that it will be allotting P15 billion for multi-specialty centers as part of the Philippine Health Facility Development Plan (PHFDP). DOH "We have initially identified and prioritized neonatal, heart, lungs, kidney and cancer as part of this...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Cyrell Jones Sidlao, or Teacher CJ, a Special Education (SPED) teacher at Buyos Elementary School in Sindangan, Zamboanga Del Norte, was pleasantly surprised when two police officers came to the school to enroll a young boy. “I need to share this!” said Teacher CJ in his...
The national government and other concerned agencies should now come up with a contingency plan for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) should the tension between the Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan escalates, Senator Rafael ‘’Raffy’’ Tulfo said Saturday, Aug. 6. Tulfo, who is set to...
After two years of hybrid conference platform, this year’s 48th Philippine Business Conference (PBC) will go for a full physical gathering of businessmen in the country. “The primary message we wish to convey in the 48th PBC is quite simple and straightforward: The Philippines is ready and open...
Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma allayed fears of government workers of being booted out of job following the proposal of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to all agencies to initiate belt-tightening measures amid the economic crunches that the country is continue facing. The...
REGIONAL Director Remelyn Recoter (right) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in an urban farm in Iloilo City. (DA-6 PIO) ILOILO CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA)-Western Visayas (Region 6) has urged farmers in the regional capital of Iloilo City to craft a development plan for urban...