DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Does your mind turn to the size of a bond paper when A4 is mentioned? Or to the category of the people now being registered for the next group to be vaccinated by the LGUs? Do you know what LGU means; it’s often mentioned in a conversation related to...
The United States on Monday welcomed the successful delivery of 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines. The 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Monday night. (U.S....
President Duterte said that China can shower the Philippines with coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines all it wants but he will never surrender the country's claim to the West Philippine Sea. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made the statement following criticisms of his remarks...
About 193,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines arrived on Monday night, May 10 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) via a DHL Cargo flight (LD 457) operated by Air Hong Kong. (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) Touchdown was around 9 p.m. at NAIA Terminal 2. Among the government officials...
The start of the general public's inoculation against the dreaded coronavirus disease (COVID-19) could happen earlier by one or two months as previously thought. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. attends President Duterte's "Talk to the Nation" address on May 10, 2021. (Screenshot from RTVM Facebook...
Vice President Leni Robredo has no interest to debate with Presidential spokesman Harry Roque and she is only open to talk to President Duterte about the West Philippine Sea issue. VP Leni Robredo’s spokesperson Barry Gutierrez (OVP photo) Vice Presidential spokesperson Barry Gutierrez made the...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 30 individuals in a barangay in Pasig City were provided free skills training and employment opportunities. This was made possible by the collaboration between Barangay San Antonio, Pasig, and CFC-ANCOP, paving the way to a 10-day free skills training of masonry,...
A career officer at the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi has succumbed to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday. Department of Foreign Affairs logo (DFA) “Yes, that is indeed the case. We have one death due to Covid among our personnel in the Philippine...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Monday said the city hospitals never prescribed the use of anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin to its patients as a cure against COVID-19. QC Mayor Joy Belmonte (QC PIO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “It is very clear here in the local government we never prescribed...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said the government can make use of the humongous congressional insertions the Department of Budget and Management has tagged as “For Later Release” to meet the P20-billion requirement for the procurement of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for this year. Lacson...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, May 10, said 25 percent or 501,600 of the more than two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in the country last Saturday from the Covax Facility have been allocated to the National Capital Region (NCR). (DOH / MB) In a virtual forum, Health...
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar admitted Monday, May 10 that the agency "can't please everyone" even as he noted the huge challenges that the local hog industry has faced as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the African Swine Flu (ASF) problem....
