Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) Director-General Jeremiah Belgica said having public assistance desks in government offices was important because complaints of the transacting public can easily be resolved with them. Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) Director-General Jeremiah Belgica (Photo from ARTA)...
500 years of Christianity commemorative plate Pope Francis has granted a jubilee year with the inherent plenary indulgence for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines. It was 500 years ago when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan representing the Spanish Empire,...
With environmental sustainability in the minds of most people, properties are jumping on the green marketing bandwagon. But how do we define sustainability in the context of a building? And what implications does being “green” have on the people living and working within that space? Kelly...
An alleged fixer who offered his illegal services to a top Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) official at the Land Transportation Office (LTO) headquarters in Quezon City was arrested on Tuesday. Anti-Red Tape Authority Director-General Jeremiah Belgica plasters a poster at the Land Transportation...
As pandemic restrictions ease, 81 percent of high-level company executives in Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as well as the U.S., revealed business travel will be more important than ever to driving success. This was according to the latest VistaJet research in...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) is urging more tourism enterprises to take advantage of the business loans being offered under the government's pandemic recovery program to help them survive the health crisis. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) This, after the government extended to two years the grace...
Malacañang said President Duterte was right when he claimed that the dreaded traffic gridlock in EDSA has been solved, saying his statement was based on a business decision. President Duterte and the EDSA traffic (Malacañang photo and Manila Bulletin photo) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque...
ERC hints ‘pricing play’ The country’s giant power firms have been tagged as the culprits in last week’s rotational brownouts with “forced outages’ of their power plants going beyond the time allowance prescribed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC). In a Congressional hearing on...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has called on owners and operators of business establishments in the city to comply with the Safety Seal certification program of the national government. By signing Executive Order No. 13 S. 2021, Belmonte enjoined all establishments to apply for a Safety Seal, which...
A man providing janitorial services to a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) branch in Lipa City, Batangas was nabbed due to alleged fixing. A janitor pretending to be a member of an office at the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) branch in Lipa City, Batangas is arrested for fixing in an entrapment...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has reported that 1.43 million or 99.5 percent of all the income tax returns filed (ITRs) during the last tax filing season were filed online. In a report to the Secretary of Finance, the BIR said that only 7,139 returns were filed manually. This is clearly a...
Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid is seeking passage of a bill establishing a Philippine Entrepreneurs Academy (PEA) that would provide undergraduate and graduate degree programs on entrepreneurship. In filing Senate Bill No. 2205 or the proposed “Philippine Entrepreneurs Academy Act,” Lapid said...
