In an aim to boost the customer service sector in Central Luzon, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) there has partnered SM Foundation, Inc. (SMFI), the agency announced on Thursday, Nov. 25. TESDA SECRETARY ISIDRO LAPEÑA (MANILA BULLETIN) TESDA and SMFI, together with...
1-2 International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) and the Razon Group's social investments to help the government pandemic recovery initiative now total over P1.5 billion. In the last 21 months since the the community quarantines started, ICTSI, in collaboration with both public and...
A total of 8,716 indigent senior citizens in Pasay City will receive their social pension from the Department of Social Welfare and Development- National Capital Region (DSWD-NCR). According to Marilyn Penazo, officer- in-charge of the Office of Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA), said 8,265 senior...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL For the Entertainment and Lifestyle/Culture sections of the Manila Bulletin, I regularly review films, streaming content, museums, dining places, theater, and music – live theater and concerts hopefully to return very soon. It’s a service we...
"Bakit kaya ang daming naghihiwalay?" This is the question asked by GMA Public Affairs to Facebook followers recently. Among those quick to offer an answer is new Kapuso TV host Kim Atienza. He wrote: "Because many think that love is a feeling when it is actually a choice to stay...for better or...
Nearly 70,000 members of the Social Security System (SSS) have been laid off from their jobs, and received unemployment benefits from the pension fund in the first three quarters of the year. In a statement, Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer said on Thursday, Nov. 18,...
Time flies so fast. Cheska Garcia's eldest daughter Kendra is almost a grown up. The doting mom is making sure be there all the way. She even involves herself in her daughter's social media life. On Instagram, Cheska reminded her 12-year-old daughter with Doug Kramer to avoid editing her pictures...
The Social Security System (SSS) recorded 1.34 million overseas Filipino worker (OFW) members as of June 2021, higher by over 800,000 from the same period in 2020. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Aurora C. Ignacio said despite the pandemic, many Filipinos are...
Over 3.2 million indigent senior citizens have received their social pension, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE) DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito D. Bautista said the number of beneficiaries of the agency’s Social Pension (SocPen) Program increased...
The Paranaque City government has started the distribution of birthday and Christmas gifts to about of 65,000 senior citizens from the city's 16 barangays on Tuesday, Nov. 16. Mar Jimenez, Public Information Office chief, said senior citizens aged 60 to 70 years old will receive P1,000 cash as a...
Congressional aspirant (2nd District, Caloocan) and PANDAYAN Kalookan's Jacob Cabochan announced on Wednesday, Nov. 17, that Caloocan City residents who were wait-listed for the second tranche of the Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Social Amelioration Program (SAP) will now be...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday, Nov. 15, it will officially roll out the “Social Work Case Management Guide for Insurgent Returnees” next month. DSWD (Screengrab from DSWD website) The DSWD said in preparation for the rollout, training will be conducted for...
