The Senate Committee on Urban Planning, Housing, and Resettlement has approved proposals for the grant of monthly rental subsidies to informal settler families (ISFs) and other eligible beneficiaries displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as evictions and demolitions. In this file photo taken...
Up to 50 percent subsidy! Safe to say that everyone misses the outside world. When asked what they would like to do first when the world is cleared of this pandemic, it would be to travel and see new sights. Tourism, admittedly, is also one of the first to be hit the hardest. Since the Inter-Agency...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) announced that it is bringing back its 50 percent subsidy on the cost of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests for qualified local tourists. DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (Ali Vicoy / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Tourism Secretary...
A measure allowing the extension of electricity lifeline rates for poor households until 2051 has been signed into law by President Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Republic Act No. 11552 amended Section 73 of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 or the EPIRA...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) has batted for a P15,000-subsidy for farmers and fishermen following the approval the House of Representatives on second reading the proposed Bayanihan 3, the government's third economic stimulus package. In a statement, the KMP called out the House of...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has already distributed a total of P322.4 million in payouts to public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers under the government’s service contracting program. Jeepney driver Ricardo Legaspi now lives in his jeepney with his family after...
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) has appealed anew for cash assistance and production subsidy for farmers and fishers affected by recent typhoons and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Various groups hold a protest outside Congress on Monday, May 17, to press for the legislation granting...
The government is planning to tap savings of agencies to augment programs related to addressing the coronavirus outbreak, including relief aid to the affected poor families. A resident of Makati City receives a first shot of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine from a health worker at the Makati Medical...
The House Committee on Basic Education on Thursday, May 6, approved the bill seeking to further provide government assistance for students, teachers and schools in the private education sector. (MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Members of the committee, chaired by Pasig City Representative Roman Romulo,...
Senators on Sunday threw their support to the proposed P24-billion wage subsidy program for private sector workers targeted to help small and medium business struggling with the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “I support the proposed wage subsidy for private sector workers. The...
A bill seeking to distribute financial and production support amounting to P15,000 to at least one million small fisherfolks in the country has been filed in Congress. This, as the income of small fishermen already went down to as low as P150 per fishing trip more than a year into the pandemic. In...
From its original request of a P280-billion annual budget for next year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) may only end up with P129 billion for 2021, already including the portion of the stimulus package it has been requesting supposedly for this year. Agriculture Secretary William Dar...
