The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) received a budget amounting to P24.268 billion for 2022 under the P5.024-trillion national budget signed by President Duterte on Dec. 30. (DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña's Facebook page) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Pateros and the Philippine National Police (PNP) have set up several checkpoints in the municipality as the gun ban for the May 9, 2022 national and local elections started on Jan. 9. According to Comelec-Pateros head Armando Mallorca, all vehicles will be...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Sunday reiterated the importance of ensuring the country’s healthcare system is fully funded in order to fully overcome the challenges of COVID-19 amid emerging threats of the ongoing pandemic. Go, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, said this is why he...
In relation to the forthcoming 2022 national and local elections, the Department of Education (DepEd) reminded teachers and non-teaching personnel of the rules against electioneering, partisan political activities. Public school teachers serve during the May 2019 national and local elections. (ALI...
National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) For the sixth straight year, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has exceeded its annual collection target by a whopping 72.4 percent. As of December 2021, NTC collection was at P9.09B, a whopping P3.82B jump from 2020. “I am grateful to...
The United States, Australia, and France have sent their sympathies to the Philippines as it mourns the passing of Philippine National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil José. Francisco Sionil Jose in his bookstore Solidaridad (NOEL PABALATE/MANILA BULLETIN) In a tweet, the French Embassy in...
Remembrances of National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose PORTRAIT OF A NATIONAL ARTIST Manong Frankie illustration by Oteph Antipolo (Cover design by Jules Vivas) Manong Frankie was only 93 years old when he took me on a tour of his childhood in Rosales, Pangasinan. The National Artist for...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) announced Friday night, Jan. 7, that it has filed criminal cases against another returning overseas Filipino (ROF) who allegedly skipped mandatory hotel quarantine. Philippine National Police Chief, General Dionardo Carlos (File photo / PNP / MANILA BULLETIN)...
Accelerated vaccination and more targeted alert level system with granular lockdowns would reduce coronavirus cases and deaths while bringing back more employment, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. In a statement, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division ordered on Friday, Jan. 7, the petitioners as well as the camp of the respondent Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to submit their respective memoranda within 48 hours in connection to the disqualification case filed against the presidential...
Malacañang is one with the rest of the country in mourning the passing of National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose, saying he was an example of a true Filipino. F. Sionil José (Photo by Noel Pabalate) Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the statement after the Filipino novelist's family...
Distinguished author Francisco Sionil José or Manong Frankie, as he is fondly called by his peers, died peacefully in his sleep at the Makati Medical Center, Thursday evening. He was declared dead 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, at the age of 97. On an earlier social media post, Manong Frankie wrote what...
