Individuals who will be caught selling coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine slots should be punished and given with lethal injection, a "joking" Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said on Sunday, May 30. Secretary Eduardo Año (Photo courtesy of DILG)...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said it has processed some P42.8 billion worth of local government unit (LGU) loans in the last half of 2020. All LGUs must send requests for Monetary Board opinion before they could transact their planned domestic borrowings. For the second semester of 2020,...
Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) Undersecretary Antonio Perez III is pushing the concerned agencies to use its in-house demographic vulnerabilities tool (DVT) to help them in their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccinations. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
Malacañang said the public is still free to refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in vaccination sites if they prefer other brands. (JUAN CARLO DE VELA / MANILA BULLETIN) Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement following the order to local government...
The city government of Makati is using a unique randomizer computer program for the brand of COVID-19 vaccine that will be given to its residents. Lawyer “Don” Camiña, Makati City spokesperson, said residents may decline the brand randomly assigned to them should they find it not to their...
The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and the Local Government of Manila today, May 21, signed a P10 Billion 15-year term loan agreement to fund public infrastructure projects in the capital. Specifically, the city government will use the fund to build school buildings in three districts,...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso signed on Monday (May 17) an agreement with the Santa Lucia International Eye Bank of Manila (SLIEB) to help promote corneas and eyes donations in the country as well as a donor card that allows for the harvest of his eyes and corneas in the event of...
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 Pasay City local government unit (LGU) has declared 120 barangays in the city as COVID-19-free after recording zero case on Sunday, May 9. Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said the city has a total of 201 barangays and only Barangay 183 remains with 18 COVID-19. Rubiano had earlier placed under...
The local government of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan is urging those who went to a resort in Caloocan City on Sunday to undergo a 14-day isolation and swab testing for possible COVID-19 infection. In a Facebook post Monday, the local government said residents who were guests of Gubat sa Ciudad...
All 17 mayors of Metro Manila or the National Capital Region (NCR) signed Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Resolution 21-09 Series of 202, which provides for a new unified curfew of 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. beginning on Saturday, May 1. (Photo courtesy of MMDA) (Photo courtesy of MMDA)...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is urging local government units (LGUs) in the provinces to include the agency's frontliners in their vaccination programs against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Photo by Mufid Majnun/ Unsplash) BI Spokesperson Dana M. Sandoval explained that immigration...