Appointments made by government agencies after May 9 up to June 30, 2022 shall be disapproved or invalidated, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) said on Tuesday, May 17. Voters cast vote at Legarda Elementary School in Sampaloc, Manila on May 9, 2022(Ali Vicoy) In a statement, CSC said that this...
BACOLOD CITY – Some government offices and classes have been suspended here and in Negros Occidental on Monday, April 11, due to ill-effects of tropical depression ‘Agaton’ which battered central Philippines. Personnel of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) in...
PEACE MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. As of this writing, tensions between Russia and the United States and its NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)allies are rapidly escalating, following reports of a massive Russian military build-up in the Russia-Ukraine border and...
Schools and field offices in provinces affected by typhoon Odette received relief efforts and conducted psychosocial interventions from the Department of Education (DepEd). (Photo from DepEd) “We have deployed personnel to facilitate the processing and transport of donations according to our...
Several consular offices that are temporarily closed due to coronavirus disease cases among personnel will resume operations on Jan. 21, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. In an advisory on Monday, Jan. 17, the DFA said most of the temporary off-site passport services (TOPS) and consular...
More consular offices around the country will be temporarily closed until Jan. 20 as more personnel from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) contracted coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (FILE PHOTO/JANSEN ROMERO/MANILA BULLETIN) A total of 23 offices, including various temporary off-site passport...
Other Field Offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have stepped up to augment the food and non-food item supplies of the regions affected by the onslaught of typhoon Odette. DSWD Region IX Facebook page) The gesture of the FOs that were spared by "Odette" was an...
NEW DELHI, India -- All schools will be shut in the Indian capital New Delhi for a week in the wake of current "Severe" levels of air pollution, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday. Vehicles and people move on a street in smog as air quality worsens in the Indian capital of New...
More than 100 offices of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) have been established in the country over the past five years, the agency said Friday, Aug. 27. (Photo from Department of Transportation) To be exact, an additional 112 offices have been created since the expansion mission started in...
Over P174.28 million worth of blank passports have been deemed obsolete and ordered by the Commission on Audit (COA) to be subjected to impairment allowance. Passport In its 2020 Annual Audit Report of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), COA also noted that 14 government properties abroad...
"Success is an iceberg; what people see is only on the surface,” says Time Magazine writer Alex Altman. Its pinnacle juts out of a vast ocean, yet beneath it, unseen, are things that make it rise gloriously to the top: hard work, sacrifices, discipline, perseverance, rejections, failures, and...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a fresh funding support to the Philippine government that aims to help young Filipinos find quality jobs after the pandemic. In a statement, the Manila-based multilateral institution said that the ADB approved a $400 million policy-based loan to support...
