Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez had earlier vowed that congressmen will pass the proposed P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) or national budget for 2024 in just five weeks. Four of these...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said the government's one-time fuel assistance, aimed at helping public transport drivers and operators cope with skyrocketing gasoline and diesel prices, is expected to be released this week. Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said the Department...
Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo (Rep. Rillo's office) A vice chairperson of the House Committee on Tourism has welcomed the P14-billion allocation for access roads and bridges to tourist destinations in the country under the P5.768-trillion National...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The judiciary is seeking an additional P6.7 billion for its budget next year, members of the House Committee on Appropriations learned on Thursday, Aug. 31. The judiciary made its...
State-run National Power Corporation (NPC) and its foreign development-partners have gained traction on rural solar photovoltaic (PV) installations that are set to benefit at least four electric cooperatives (EC) in Visayas and Mindanao grids. Via the Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (ASEP)...
DHSUD Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar (Screenshot from YouTube live) Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar is open to having a separate agency handle the government's low-cost socialized housing...
The late DMW Secretary Susan "Toots" Ople House Speaker Martin Romualdez had earlier vowed that congressmen will pass the proposed P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) or national budget for 2024 in just five weeks. Four of these weeks will be...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) The House Committee on Appropriations is eyeing the augmentation of the proposed 2024 budget of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which is the country’s "main investment promotion agency". Thus,...
The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a potent tool to develop and instill discipline and patriotism among the Filipino youth, Senator Francis Tolentino on Sunday, August 27. Tolentino stressed this during Sunday’s opening of the PRG’s Mindanao Regional Tournament in...
BUTUAN CITY – To empower the youth in nation-building and peacekeeping, the Regional Community Affairs and Development Division of the Police Regional Office-13 launched the “Pulis Kaabag Ko” outreach program at the Home for the Boys in Barangay Antongalon here on Wednesday, August 23. Wards...
The Senate Committee on Finance will strive hard to increase the budgets for education and health in the final version of the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024. Sen. Sonny Angara, Senate finance committee chairman, during deliberations on the proposed 2023 national budget in...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) It took nearly half a day for the House Committee on Appropriations to terminate or complete its deliberation on the proposed 2024 budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA), an agency...
