Ninety-five percent of Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) workers have already been vaccinated against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement on Monday, Nov. 29, GSIS President and General Manager Rolando Ledesma Macasaet said a total of 4,361 of 4,581 GSIS...
Social Security System (SSS) pensioners will receive their Christmas cash gifts early next month. Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer, said the pension fund has coordinated with its partner banks to credit the pensions within the first week of December. The SSS wants to...
Malacañang assured the public that the government is actively monitoring developments surrounding the newly discovered "most heavily mutated" variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) first discovered in South Africa. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (PNA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)...
Operations at the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) will be temporarily suspended on three Sundays this November and on January next year to complete the necessary works for the upgrade of its existing signaling system. (Photo from Light Rail Manila Corporation) The Light Rail Manila Corporation...
San Miguel Corp.’s Luzon Clean Water Development Corporation (LCWDC) was cleared to increase water rates in areas covered by the Bulacan Bulk Water Supply Project (BBWSP). In a statement, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) announced that LCWD will impose a P0.35 centavos per cubic...
More areas in the country will soon be placed under the Alert Level System (ALS) for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response as the government's pandemic task force rolls out phase 4 of the new scheme. (Photo by Ali Vicoy) In a statement on Saturday evening, Nov. 20, Cabinet Secretary and Acting...
The implementation of the countrywide Alert Level System which was pilot-tested in Metro Manila to curb the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) transmission will start on Monday, Nov. 22, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III confirmed. “Simula...
(SCREENGRAB FROM PAGASA YOUTUBE CHANNEL) The shear line or tail-end of the frontal system could bring scattered light to, at times, heavy rains over Bicol region and Quezon province within the next 24 hours, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System-Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) has secured the power to directly impose penalties on water concessionaires - Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water Company, Inc. During a virtual public information drive on Friday, Nov. 19, MWSS Chief Regulator...
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,...
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...
While the formal basic education enrollment for School Year (SY) 2021-2022 increased by four percent, the informal education or the Alternative Learning System (ALS) saw a sharp decline with a 60 percent decrease in enrollment. Photo taken at Buenavista Elementary School in Sorsogon during the...
