The rate of jobless Filipinos rose last April due to reimposition of strict quarantine measures along with the increasing working-age population joining the local labor force, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Tuesday, June 8. The country’s unemployment rate jumped to 8.7...
Metro Manila residents prefer to re-elect their incumbent mayors in the coming 2022 elections, a recent survey showed. Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto, QC Mayor Joy Belmonte, and San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora (MANILA BULLETIN) An independent and non-commissioned survey conducted by the RP-Mission...
Archdiocese of Manila Apostolic Administrator Bishop Broderick Pabillo, chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines– Episcopal Commission on the Laity, has lauded the result of the recently conducted Veritas Truth survey which showed that “97 percent of Filipino Catholics...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte received the highest approval rating among Metro Manila mayors anew in a recent survey. The independent, non-commissioned survey conducted by RP-Mission and Development Foundation Inc.(RPMDinc) showed that Belmonte obtained an approval rating of 89 percent. MANILA...
(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The proportion of Filipinos who fear the "worst is yet to come" in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has increased in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results released on Thursday, June 3. Of the 1,200 adult respondents surveyed on...
Majority of Filipino Catholics believes the Holy Eucharist is the real body and blood of Christ, and not just symbolical. Radio Veritas This was the result of the Veritas Truth Survey conducted by Church-run Radio Veritas. When asked, "Do you believe that the Holy Eucharist is the actual body and...
A survey conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed that 79 percent of Filipino adults believe that violators of minimum health protocols are the "real cause" of the current spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. The government has been urging the public to vigilantly...
"Wishful thinking." This was how Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque described the online survey that showed Vice President Leni Robredo as the most preferred presidential candidate for the elections next year. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque and Vice President Leni Robredo During PTV-4's "Laging...
Malacañang is appealing to the public to get themselves inoculated with whatever COVID-19 vaccine brand is available because the doses from United States’ Pfizer-BioNTech, which survey showed Filipinos preferred, are not enough. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in his online media...
More than half of Filipino adults have expressed confidence on the government’s evaluation of the vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), according to a survey issued Thursday, May 20. Graph courtesy of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) In a survey conducted by the Social Weather...
Many fans are curious if Karen Davila is set to jump from ABS-CBN to GMA. And it all started with her simply answering a social media survey conducted by the Kapuso Network as to the best veggie for tinola, giving papaya and sayote as choices. Karen was among those who joined in, answering sayote....
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the public should be heard if they voted for President Duterte in the 2016 polls because they believed that he will ride a jet ski to the West Philippine Sea or if they voted for him despite his penchant for cracking jokes. Chief Presidential...
