The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has vowed to “constantly develop and re-engineer” its current mechanisms in providing social protection services to Filipinos, especially the vulnerable and poor sectors. (Photo from DSWD) DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista made...
Sorsogon Governor Francis "Chiz" Escudero lamented on Wednesday, July 21, the slow vaccine rollout in his province, which he attributed to the national government's policy of prioritizing cities in Metro Manila and other high-risk areas of the Philippines. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (left) and...
The Department of Education (DepEd) earned praise from civil society groups for establishing a Child Protection Unit as the country faces the challenges brought by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Social Watch Philippines (SWP), a hundred-strong network of civil society groups...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Monday, July 19, called on his colleagues in the Congress to pass the bill that would protect freelance workers after the reported suspension of a number of food delivery riders who demanded better salaries. Riders of online food delivery app Foodpanda in November, 2020...
Some 16 local and foreign business groups have strongly urged for the immediate enactment of the proposed Financial Consumer Protection (FCP) Act, which seeks to protect consumers amidst the growing complexity in financial services, especially digital services. In a statement the business group...
A total of 15 technologies in Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) region have applied for grant of a patent at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said on Thursday, July 15. (DOST Facebook page) This was the...
These 500 kids need you Child Protection Network (CPN), an NGO that first started in 1997, which has worked with experts on the prevention and treatment of child abuse, is raising funds to help support 500 abused children. For every ₱8,000 peso donation, one boy or girl will get access to a year...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) expressed support on Wednesday, July 7, to the proposed amendment of the wildlife protection law in a bid to strengthen wildlife conservation in the country. (Photo from PNA / File photo) DENR Undersecretary for Special Concerns and...
The Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has moved to strengthen the Philippines' wildlife conservation and protection law to address the persisting problem in illegal wildlife trade and similar offenses. A Philippine pangolin captured in Balayan, Batangas is rescued by the...
Getting Filipinos vaccinated against the coronavirus disease will be one of the priorities of President Duterte in the final year of his six-year term. A Manila resident receives a first dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine during the inoculation drive at a school in Tondo, Manila on June 20, 2012....
The government is determined to prove wrong a foreign think tank that projected the Philippines could become among the last to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus in Asia. Distancing protocols seem to have been ignored as Manila residents line up to get a first dose of Pfizer coronavirus...
(ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Vaccinations against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) must take on greater urgency as the more transmissible Delta variant has put a slight complication on the country's target for herd immunity and population protection, OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said on...
