Amid runaway fuel prices, President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. prefers the prospect of giving fuel subsidies to the transport sector over the proposed suspension of fuel excise taxes. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Another fuel price hike took effect...
Senators on Tuesday lauded incoming President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s decision to take over the leadership of the Department of Agriculture (DA) when he assumes office on June 30. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Bureau) Senator Sonny Angara said it is the President’s...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said he rejects proposals calling for the abolition of the K to 12 program saying it only needs to be reviewed and tweaked to ensure that its promises are fulfilled. Students at Cabacanan Elementary School in Alimodian town, Iloilo province attend face-to-face classes....
Bureaucratic and legislative kinks must be ironed out first before the incoming Marcos administration can allow the 100 percent foreign ownership of power generation ventures in the country. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) President-elect Bongbong Marcos's...
President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. says he'll employ a tactic of his late father, former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in order to address the current fuel price crisis. President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (left) and the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. (BBM Media Bureau,...
President-elect Bongbong Marcos underscored on Monday, June 20 the need to hasten the release of national identification cards (IDs) among Filipinos. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Marcos, in an impromptu press briefing at the BBM headquarters in Mandaluyong City, said he finds the current level...
Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Monday evening, June 20, rejected president-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as the Department of Agriculture’s Secretary, claiming that Marcos will only worsen hunger in the country. (Department of Agriculture / Manila Bulletin)...
A Department of Agriculture (DA) that is under the supervision of President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. can actually create a resilient Philippine food security, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion believed. According to Concepcion, many of the country's micro,...
The fate of the K-to-12 education hangs on a balance as Vice President-elect Sara Duterte admitted on Monday, June 20, that it will be taken up by the next administration. Vice President-elect Sara Duterte (Photo by Noel Pabalate / MANILA BULLETIN) Duterte, the incoming Education chief, said the...
“The short lists are getting shorter. If we started with 10 names, a dozen names, we are down to maybe three or two in each of those departments.” President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Bureau) Thus, said President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in a press conference on Monday,...
President-elect Bongbong Marcos is taking on the portfolio of Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary, as least temporarily. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Bureau) Marcos announced this himself in an impromptu press conference Monday, June 20, at the BBM headquarters in Mandaluyong...
A wake up call. (Unsplash) That's how outgoing Quezon City 5th district Rep. Alfred Vargas described the power outages in Luzon over the weekend, which affected an estimated one million residents, “This incident, which has been attributed to insufficient power supply, is a stark reminder that we...
