Amid calls to revert to the pre-pandemic school calendar, the Department of Education (DepEd) said that the proposals related to this are still being studied. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) “Hindi pa tapos yung pag-aaral tungkol diyan, kung ibabalik or hindi (The study on this is not yet completed,...
A group of education workers on Friday, May 12, asked the Department of Education (DepEd) to take accountability in “negligence and corruption cases” that led to the alleged fire sale of laptops in retail and online stores. (DepEd file photo) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines...
(Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is prodding senators to pass their counterpart measure to the House bill (HB) granting full protection to workers of the so-called "gig" industry, or freelancers. “With the rapid growth of the global freelance economy and the resultant...
LAGUNA – Authorities collared two of Region 4A’s most wanted persons for statutory rape and acts of lasciviousness in separate operations in Calamba City on Wednesday, May 10. The Laguna Police Provincial Office (PPO) identified the suspects as alias Randy and alias Roy. Photos from Laguna...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), and Vice President Sara Duterte (Rep. Castro's office, Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte will get to "control" more confidential and intelligence funds in her new role as co-vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist...
(MANILA BULLETIN) A recently filed House bill (HB) in the 19th Congress seeks to expand the coverage of the discount on electricity consumption being given to senior citizens. Sorsogon 1st district Rep. Marie Bernadette Escudero penned and filed HB No.7919, also known as the Expanded Senior...
As the Department of Education (DepEd) revises the K to 12 curriculum, a group urged Vice President Sara Duterte, who serves as the Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary in a concurrent capacity, to retract her “red-tagging statements” publicly apologize for “attacking human rights.”...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. signed an administrative order creating an inter-agency committee for the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Philippine independence. Philippine Air Force (PAF) aircraft conduct a flyby exercise practice at the Luneta Park in Manila on June 8,...
A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted one month prior to the original deadline for compliance with the SIM Registration Act, also known as Republic Act No. 11934, revealed that 56 percent of adult Filipino SIM card owners had registered their cards, while 44 percent had not. According to...
House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teacher's party-list Rep. France Castro on Monday, May 1, urged the Marcos administration to rechannel the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to fund the fuel subsidies for Occidental Mindoro. "Nasasayang...
The Quezon City local government reminded restaurant owners in the city to give discounts to registered solo parents. “Itong batas na 20-percent discount every first and last Sunday. Ginawa na namin ang internal rate of return IRR, ibinigay na namin sa Business Permits and Licensing Department...
A group of education workers expressed concern about the new curriculum for Kinder to Grade 10 noting that it will essentially weaken the sense of nationalism among learners in the primary years of schooling. (MARK BALMORES / MANILA BULLETIN) “ACT agrees that the development of foundational...
