ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “Poverty is a question of the heart. Only with a changed heart can you free people from poverty. Only God can change the human heart.” These are the three basic principles that guide the work of the Center for Community Transformation (CCT) founded and headed by Ruth...
President Duterte sought the help of the local government units (LGUs) to find and convince the people who have not received the second coronavirus (COVID-19) shot yet to get fully vaccinated. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/ Malacañang) Duterte made the statement after the National Task...
Consumer group Power for People Coalition (P4P) castigated local power generation companies (gencos) Wednesday, June 2 for failing to meet the power demand in the Luzon grid amid sizzling summer temperatures. (Photo from P4P Coalition) Thin power reserves have led to rotational brownouts in several...
President Duterte is expected to deliver an address to the nation on Wednesday, May 26, instead of on Tuesday night, May 25, following a hectic work schedule. LOZANO_03112021-17 Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced the latest change in the President's schedule, saying they returned home in...
There is a need for food systems to be "fair, healthy, and environment friendly," civil society organizations from across Asia and Europe said. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture) During the webinar dubbed, "Tech to Fork: Resisting the Neoliberal Domination in Agriculture amid COVID...
BATANG MAYNILA Manila Mayor Isko Moreno A couple of days ago, we, along with the other heads of cities and municipalities, were directed by the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to stop announcing the brand of vaccine slated for deployment in...
Executive Order No. 13 0 The government has formally repealed the ban on open-pit mining method in the country, at least based on draft implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Executive Order (EO) 130. Based on the draft of the three-page IRR, the government repealed, amended, and...
President Duterte ordered his Cabinet members to refrain from talking about the West Philippine Sea issue in public, even as he affirmed his new policy of not engaging his critics on the issue. "That's my order now to the Cabinet and to all, for the government, to refrain from discussing itong...
The rebuilding of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) almost forty years ago today was “one of the best good things” that former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos has done for her country, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos (3rd from...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. urged the public to keep on wearing their face masks as if the country has no vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) yet. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (AP Photo / Sakchai Lalit / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Locsin made the...
President Duterte has asked the public to forgo any fiestas this month as the country continued to grapple with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. President Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with core members of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of...
President Duterte has expressed his gratitude to the private sector for their "tremendous assistance" to the government as the country continued to grapple with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. President Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with core members of the...
