How many times in your life can you say that you’re “very sure” about something or someone? Vice President Leni Robredo is one of the persons who knew, right from the moment she met him, that she’s going to marry her husband, the late former Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo. Vice President...
There's a battle for public attention at least every Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a taped public address on August 16, 2021. (Malacañang) With his taped weekly address often aired late at night and running long, President Duterte is letting the public make a choice: Be informed about...
Another local pro-climate action group has underscored the urgency of the message being conveyed by the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC. (Photo by Bill Oxford/ Unsplash) “The science is clear: there is no time to lose for climate action,” said Jon...
The Philippines' continued preference for dirty energy sources like coal is no longer justifiable especially with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest climate science findings, the Power for People Coalition (P4P) said on Tuesday, Aug. 10. (Photo from P4P...
Malacañang asked local chief executives to not blame President Duterte for the incident last week where people flocked to different vaccination sites in fear of not being allowed to go out during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO /...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday, August 9 said he is unperturbed with the emerging number of political parties that have pledged their support to Hugpong ng Pagbabago’s Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. Sotto, Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) chairman, and who is expected...
The House of Representatives has assured civil society organizations participation in annual budget deliberations in Congress following the passage on third and final reading of the bill to pursue this purpose. San Jose del Monte City Rep. Rida Robes With 200 affirmative and six negative votes, the...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has directed two barangay executives in Quezon City to explain their reported requirement of vaccination cards from their constituents asking for quarantine passes amid the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila. ARTA orders 2 Quezon City...
The Quezon City government has already vaccinated more than half of its target 1.7 million individuals against COVID-19. This came after 1,015,256 residents and workers received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine while 597,517, including those who got the single-dose Johnson & Johnson's...
Malacañang denied reports that people who have not yet received their vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will not be able to get the promised ayuda or cash assistance for Metro Manila's shift to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). photo: Ali Vicoy Presidential Spokesman...
"It's a race to the unvaccinated." This was how Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion described the importance of the upcoming shift of Metro Manila to the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), saying the two-week period will allow the government to get to the unvaccinated first...
Malacañang said that the plan of the local government of Lapu-Lapu City in Cebu to impose a "no vaccine, no entry" policy in supermarkets was not timely as there were still many people who have yet to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque...
