Making one of her dreams come true, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte read “Isang Kaibigan (One Friend),” a book she authored, to students of the Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr. Central Elementary School in Davao City as part of the launch for National Reading Month. Vice...
The Department of Education (DepEd) marks the calendar with a significant yearly celebration – the National Reading Month (NRM). (Photo from Unsplash) This month-long event observed every November, is part of the agency's efforts to foster a culture of reading and enhance literacy...
The Philippine and Japanese governments inked on Friday, Nov. 10, an agreement that will ensure the sustainable urban development of Metropolitan Davao and its areas in the Davao Region. The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...
Patrolma Michael Angelo Basa (Photo by PNP Integrity Monitoring and Enforcement Group) Two active policemen and a dismissed cop were arrested by the Philippine National Police's (PNP) anti-scalawag unit wihtin 24 hours for their alleged involvement in various crimes, a ranking official said...
The Senate recalled the plenary approval of the proposed budget of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for next year after the issue of the alleged issuance of authentic birth certificates to foreign nationals was raised during the Senate’s plenary deliberations on the proposed budget for...
The long-time dream of the country to have a single-connected grid nationwide may take a little longer, as one leg of the infrastructure development toward the concretization of the P51.3 billion Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project (MVIP) is being impeded by a temporary restraining order (TRO)...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has indicated that transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) will still be allowed eventually to recoup costs relating to programmed capital expenditure (capex) projects that were disallowed in the partial rate-setting rendered by...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro led the Makabayan bloc on Thursday, Nov. 9, in filing a resolution asking an legislative investigation into National Grid Corporation of the Philippines’ (NGCP)...
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said that President Marcos has given his approval for the purchase of five additional units of state-of-the-art patrol vessels from the Japanese government. In a briefing on Thursday, Nov. 9, NEDA Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan said the...
President Marcos has given the go-ahead for the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to proceed with the Swiss challenge for the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) Extension Project. The President, as the chair of the National Economic and Development...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte is also no longer interested to pursue the Department of Education’s (DepEd) request for a P150-million worth of confidential funds for 2024. Sen. Pia Cayetano, who is defending DepEd’s proposed P718-billion budget for 2024, read...
Presidential adviser on creative communications Paul Soriano is no longer connected with the Department of Tourism (DOT), so said Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara. Angara, Senate Committee on Finance, disclosed this during the Senate’s deliberations on the proposed P5.768-trillion...
