HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Many migrant Filipino workers and Filipino immigrants are familiar with pandemic-related aid. I’m not talking about paltry sums of Social Amelioration Program (SAP). I’m talking about adequate aid. The US government sent $2,000 checks to Americans. That’s on top of social...
For the upcoming School Year (SY) 2021-2022, the Department of Education’s (DepEd) School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) is expected to benefit 3.1 million learners. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones expressed the agency’s commitment to continue implementing the...
Responders from different units queing for registration and vital signs monitoring prior to vaccination at the Dream Zone, Provincial Capitol compound in Batangas City, July 16. (Joenald M. Rayos/MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines recorded its highest daily vaccination rate last Thursday, July 22,...
(File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) The presence of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in the Philippines should not hinder the government in achieving its target of vaccinating 70 percent of the country's population by the end of this year, a health expert said on Tuesday, July 20. The Delta variant...
The Pateros municipal government has reported that its first dose vaccination has increased to nearly 78 percent. Based on the July 19 data, a total of 37,996 individuals have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Pateros, representing 77.54 percent of the target population of...
President Rodrigo R. Duterte will propose at least P5-trillion national budget before his term ends. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte Already, the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC), an inter-agency body tasked to set the macroeconomic targets of the country, approved late Monday, a...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) scored the Makabayan bloc in Congress on Tuesday, July 20, for allegedly spreading lies about the Barangay Development Program (BDP). Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary...
More than 300,000 employees of the Department of Education (DepEd) in 15 regions have been vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). An employee of DepEd Central Office receives COVID-19 jab in Pasig City. (Photo from DepEd Philippines Facebook) This was announced by Education Secretary...
DAVAO CITY - The City Health Office (CHO) has started the inoculation of persons deprived of liberty (PDL) and jail personnel at the Davao City Jail (DCJ) last week. According to Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the COVID-19 Task Force, the CHO is targeting to vaccinate 1,000 jail personnel...
Presidential Adviser for Northern Luzon Raul Lambino cited the administration's "Build Build Build" projects as one of the significant gains of the Duterte administration. In a statement on Monday July 19, Lambino said that he presented the ongoing various infrastructure projects in Cagayan...
Those Filipinos who want to level up their skills and knowledge in science and technology (S&T) can take advantage of the five new grants and training programs launched by the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Eighteen-year-old Dominic Navarro graduated with honors from the Ilocos Region campus of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) last May. Dominic is one of several who went through the PSHS system and were offered admission at some of the world’s most...
