Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año stressed Monday, June 22, that removal of quarantine classifications will be possibly enforced if herd immunity from the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is achieved in the country. In an interview over ABS-CBN’s...
Electricity demand surge ushered in by the country’s bit-by-bit economic reopening is now wrestling with available supply – especially for Luzon grid – but news of greenfield power plant developments are still not up to expectations. The main power grid can still count on new plants coming...
Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr. and Health Secretary Francisco Duque III should disclose the prices of COVID-19 vaccines and submit to the Senate Committee of the Whole the supply agreements the Philippines has signed with vaccine manufacturers for scrutiny. Drilon made the call ahead of...
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco) on Wednesday, June 9, assured that it has adequate power supply to meet the demand of its customers despite the recent rotating brownouts due to power plant outages. (MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Meralco spokesperson Joe Zaldarriaga said that the giant power...
The country can expect 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccines this month as the tight global supply has started to ease, President Duterte said Monday. An airport employee waits to receive a coronavirus jab at a vaccination site located in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on June 2, 2021...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is seeking passage of a measure that would open up the country’s electricity market by lifting the public offering requirement provision in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or EPIRA Law to lure more generation companies into investing in the Philippines....
Senators were not satisfied with the Department of Energy's (DOE) response to the complaints about the brownouts in several parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon (MANILA BULLETIN File photo/Facebook) Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday, June...
’TOL VIEWS Senator Francis N. Tolentino The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has placed the entire Luzon grid under red alert due to insufficient power supply. As rotational brownouts loom due to low power reserves brought by high electricity demand, this latest electricity...
The Luzon grid is running on "negative" power supply. This was Department of Energy (DoE) Spokesperson Felix William Fuentebella's blunt admission Wednesday, June 2, as the country’s northern islands entered its third consecutive day this week under "red alert" status. (Photo from DOE Facebook...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “How are you addressing the problem of vaccine hesitancy?” That was the raging question of the past week. It appears to have been triggered by a controversy involving the top two officials of the land over the issue of an advertising campaign to “convince”...
Penal facilities in Nueva Ecija have agreed to become direct buyers of the produce of local farmer organizations for the purpose of meeting their daily food requirements, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said on Wednesday, May 19. Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Brother John...
The government wanted to shore up the country's supply of rice given the threat posed by climate change when it reduced import tariffs on the staple food. (Manila Bulletin file photo by Keith Bacongco) Presidential spokesman Harry Roque defended the President Duterte's decision to lower the tariff...
