Senator Sherwin Gatchalian believes that the Philippines could struggle to hit its 5 percent economic growth target this year due to lingering domestic challenges and the escalating tensions in the Middle East. In a radio interview with Usapang Senado over DWIZ on Saturday, March 7, Gatchalian was...
CEBU CITY – Mandaue City has formed a task force that will intensify price monitoring in the city. The creation of the task force mandated to conduct regular inspections of basic commodities and ensure price stability was finalized during a special meeting of the Price Monitoring Council on...
President Marcos may consider looking into the proposal to compress the workweek in government offices to four days—a move to support the government 's effort to save energy. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said the President may study the suggestion,...
Senator Imee Marcos has filed a resolution seeking to conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation into the country 's energy reserves as well as the government 's mitigation responses to "energy shock". Marcos filed P.S. Resolution No. 333 on Tuesday, March 3, amid the escalating conflict...
Citing the mounting burden on small farmers, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday, March 3, denounced the latest oil price hike and urged the government to provide urgent subsidies as Middle East tensions threaten to push global crude prices even higher. KMP said oil firms...
Vice President Sara Duterte is asking the public to refrain from conducting protests through motorcades and caravans and called on the local government units (LGUs) to ban such activities in order to save fuel amid the ongoing conflict affecting worldwide oil supply in the Middle East. Duterte...
Fishers are being squeezed by rising fuel costs as successive oil price hikes push production expenses higher, progressive fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said on Friday, Jan. 23. The group said fuel expenses now account for about 80 percent of...
The country’s full-year inflation rate in 2025 settled at a nine-year low, even as inflation edged up to 1.8 percent in December from 1.5 percent a month earlier, driven mainly by higher prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. National...
The country’s inflation rate slowed to 1.5 percent in November, easing from 1.7 percent in October and 2.5 percent in the same month last year, largely due to lower food prices, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday, Dec. 5. Headline inflation averaged 1.6 percent during...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) warned that the recent plunge of the peso, which has hit new lows, could reignite inflation despite projections that the November rate would settle below the central bank’s target band The BSP on Friday, Nov. 28, cited “higher electricity and oil prices,...
President Marcos has ordered that there will be no price increase on basic commodities until the end of the year, Malacañang said. Marcos has ordered the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to implement the no price increase policy, especially during the holiday season. "Alinsunod sa kautusan...
A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted from Sept. 24 to 30 revealed that most Filipinos want President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to focus on reducing the prices of rice and other food products. The SWS Third Quarter 2025 Social Weather Survey, fielded through face-to-face interviews with 1,500...
