The Light Rail Transit Line 2 (LRT-2) is offering free rides for women on Monday, March 8 in celebration of International Women's Day. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) In an announcement posted on its Facebook page, the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) said the LRT-2 would offer free rides to...
The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) will request an additional budget from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to fulfill some of its deliverables under the Coco Levy Act or Republic Act (RA) 11524, including the task of providing health and medical protection to coconut farmers. In an...
Only representatives from three government agencies – Department of Finance (DOF), Department of Budget and Management (DBM), and Department of Justice (DOJ) – will have the final say on how the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund (CFITF) will be managed and use. Based on the Republic Act...
Book lovers rejoice! There's a treasure trove of books that you can enjoy reading during your free time at the mall. And they have over 1,000 books to choose from. Nook Book's interior design aesthetics make it conducive for reading. There's a free library that's located at the fourth floor of SM...
Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Jaison N. Bustarde works as a professional senior hairstylist. Aside from that, he's also a father and keeps himself busy vlogging and sharing informative hair care tips on TikTok. But Mark was looking for something more, he wanted to find his purpose and he was able to...
Government interventions in the highly vulnerable farm sector may be “too little or too late", which may be the reason for the sector's 1.4 percent decline in 2020. This is according to Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) National Manager Raul Montemayor, who said the Department of...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has waived P156 million toll fees for doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, and other medical workers using its expressways in the past 10 months. Now, the toll operator will allow 10,400 medical frontliners to use the newly-opened Skyway 3 for free indefinitely,...
Coconut farmers are coming up with a position paper that will formally ask President Rodrigo Duterte to veto Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund or the Coco Levy Act, which will pave the way for the release of the P100-billion Coco Levy Fund. (MB FILE, Keith Bacongco) Pambansang Kaisahan ng...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) increased the rollout of its Free Wi-Fi for All Program (FW4A) by 500 percent last year. For 2020 alone, the DICT put up 4,305 live sites within the year, bringing the total to 7,556 active live sites as of December 28, 2020. From...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it’s only a matter of time before the majority of the country's farmers bid farewell to farming due to old age, and that the agriculture sector will soon be taken over by millennials. Agriculture Secretary William Dar said since the average age of...
Year-Ender Agriculture Secretary William Dar (MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines' agriculture sector has survived a volcano eruption that blanketed tons of farm yield with ashes and sustained production within three quarters into the pandemic, but it only took three typhoons to expose its...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is seeking lawmakers’ imprimatur for it to be allowed to import Covid-19 vaccine tax-free as these doses will be used for its employees. NGCP President Anthony L. Almeda said with this gesture from the State, businesses would...
