A mentoring program and a mobile app intended to modernize the country's agriculture sector were launched by the Department of Agriculture (DA). FARMERS GO DIGITAL--A farmer-youth tandem completes the hands-on activity on smartphone familiarization under the Digital Farmers Program training...
The Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) has approved the grant of tax incentives for a mass housing project and two cement manufacturing plants all located outside Metro Manila. Chaired by Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III, the FIRB during its third meeting last August 2 approved the tax...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III has assured hotel owners that the government is doing all it can to support the revival of more robust hospitality and tourism sectors in the post-pandemic era. But despite government’s effort to scale up the country’s mass vaccination program to fully...
Regular plenary sessions will be suspended and all congressional offices closed in the House of Representatives during the enforcement of the Enhanced Community Quarantine from August 6 to 21, the legislative chamber has announced. House of Representatives plenary2 In a memorandum released Monday,...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista took time to personally visit the families displaced by Taal Volcano’s unrest in Batangas to check on their condition. DSWD Secretary Rolando Bautista (middle), together with Field Office IV-A Regional...
There will be enough food supply in the National Capital Region (NCR) and other major consumption areas in the country during the upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Department of Agriculture Secretary William Dar said. (Photo courtesy of the DA) “There is enough food for...
The upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) may lead to a rise in unemployment in the National Capital Region (NCR) at a time when employment numbers are already improving. A Philippine National Police (PNP) member mans a checkpoint at a barangay in Sampaloc, Manila after it was...
President Duterte’s chief economic manager said the country’s recovery efforts from pandemic has no room for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the government’s main tax agency, to fail in raising much-needed revenues. After the bureau addressed the tax issues involving the prizes given to...
While power interruptions are often blamed for alleged cheating every elections, the Department of Energy (DOE) has not given any assurance that rotating blackouts will not happen in the May 2022 polls. When Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi, who is also the president of the Duterte-chaired...
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Brother John Castriciones admitted that it would be a challenge for them to deliver housing units to at least 600,000 farmer beneficiaries by the end of the Duterte administration but ensured that many will still benefit from it. Department of Agrarian...
About 229,000 hectares of land have been distributed to farmers under the government's agrarian reform program, Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Brother John Castriciones said. LAND OWNERS, FINALLY -- Agrarian reform beneficiaries in Cebu province finally receive their own farmlands during...
The mission to realize a 12-minute travel time between the business hubs in the cities of Taguig and Pasig continues as the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is looking to complete the entire BGC-Ortigas Center Link Road by the third quarter of the year. (Photo courtesy of the DPWH)...
