Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez signed an ordinance appropriating a P10-billion budget for the operating expenditures of the city government this year. He also signed a measure regulating the movements of unvaccinated individuals under the alert level system. The two ordinances were passed by...
To ensure the safe reopening of schools amid the pandemic, a group of education workers on Friday, Jan. 14, urged the government to come up with a better and more effective response. (Photo from Unsplash) “Our ultimate goal is for our schools to finally be able to reopen safely so that we can...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Thursday said he supports President Duterte’s call to amend Republic Act No. 10121 or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 and streamline the government’s response to natural calamities. Go said it is more practical to amend the...
Quezon City mayoral aspirant and Anakalusugan Partylist Representative Micheal "Mike" Defensor said on Wednesday, Jan.12, that the city government can do more when it comes to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response. Defensor made the statement after the city's COVID-19 cases went up to 202,614...
The country’s weakest links amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are testing and tracing, said a public health expert on Tuesday, Jan. 11. MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO Public health expert and former National Task Force (NTF) against COVID-19 special adviser Dr. Anthony “Tony”...
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) claimed that it has served the masses in rural villages more effectively than the government when it comes to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) CPP spokesperson Marco Valbuena said that the New People’s...
Saying that the P5,000 special risk allowance for medical frontliners is “too low,” President Duterte on Thursday, Jan. 6, approved the increase of such allowance due to the surge of coronavirus cases in the country. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) This came after he made a call to...
It looked like presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo already knows how to deal with online bashers as she took time on Wednesday night, Jan. 5, to answer some who interrupted her Facebook live video with supporters. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP) Robredo often goes live on Facebook...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s flagship Angat Buhay program has helped 622,000 families in 223 cities and municipalities across the country since she assumed office in 2016. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) A yearend report from the Office of the Vice President (OVP) said the families have...
Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo and her staff at the Office of the Vice President (OVP) will give their “all” in the next six months as they marked the first working day of the last six months of her term on Monday, Jan. 3. Vice President Leni Robredo (ALI VICOY/MANILA...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases may peak at 40,000 in the middle of January if massive interventions will not be made, according to a professor. People flock to Ilaya street in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be placed under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until Jan....
The prolonged pandemic has brought unprecedented economic challenges worldwide. In the Philippines, the COVID-19 crisis has wiped out the country’s gains over the past years as it incurred a staggering P1.4-trillion loan to fight the pandemic. Two years in, the virus remains very unpredictable...
