The House Committees on Good Government and Public Accountability and on Agriculture will conduct their second joint briefing on the botched importation of 300,000 metric tons (MTs) of sugar on Monday, Aug. 22. (San Jose del Monte City lone district Rep. Florida Robes Facebook) Key individuals have...
Senator Robin Padilla on Friday, Aug. 19 expressed concern over students who are “becoming left". During a hearing of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Padilla particularly mentioned artists who are getting affiliated with the left, which he said is a problem. “Hindi po ba kayo napasok...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will sell his first retail Treasury bond (RTB) to small Filipino savers, the Bureau of the Treasury announced on Friday, Aug. 19. In a notice, the Treasury bureau said the national government will launch next week another RTB, offering a minimum principal amount of...
The benchmark interest rate on debt falling due in almost 10-years declined at an auction of the government IOUs at the Bureau of the Treasury on Tuesday, Aug. 16. The interest rate of the 10-year IOUs, with a remaining life of nine-years and 10 months, fetched 5.813 percent, lower than the...
Yields on short-term government borrowings increased as investors expect the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to raise key policy rates this week. At an auction of Treasury bills on Monday, Aug. 15, the bellwether 91-day rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, inched up to 1.874 percent from...
Senator Lito Lapid wants government advisories, public announcements, and other forms of information to be disseminated in what he described as “plain language". Senator Lito Lapid (Senate PRIB) Thus, the Senator filed Senate Bill (SB) 273 or the “Plain Language in Government Documents Act"....
Debt payments down 41% in H1 Debt payments by the national government went down by 41 percent in the first semester of the year due to lower amortization, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The national government's debt servicing reached P458.35 billion in January to June this year,...
BACOLOD CITY – A casual employee of the city government of Cadiz in Negros Occidental was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tinampa-an Saturday, August 13. SUSPECTED shabu valued at P12,240 was seized by the police from a casual government employee of Cadiz City, Negros Occidental...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has opened its first full-time service desk in Romblon for the benefit of over 9,000 members and pensioners in the province. Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) logo / Facebook This was made possible through a memorandum of agreement signed by...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd), will "adopt" 25 schools nationwide for its Adopt-A-School Program (ASP) 2022. Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) logo / Facebook This program, said GSIS, is a part of the agency's...
After a two-year interval due to Covid-19 pandemic, the first batch of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) to be dispatched in the new normal is now ready to work in their respective organizations and communities in the Philippines. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the...
Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the expired Covid-19 vaccines, including those purchased by the private sector and local government units (LGUs), will be...
