In the national effort to meet the problems raised by COVID-19, Congress is moving to enact laws to help support the economy which has been badly hit by the pandemic. A number of economic bills have thus been filed in Congress, some from the administration. The Corporate Income Tax and Incentives...
President Duterte revived interest in the death penalty when he included among his proposals in his State of the Nation Address that it be reinstated as penalty for drug-related crimes. In the House of Representatives, Congressmen Robert Ace Barbers of Bayan Muna and Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa, who...
This weekend, the global number of COVID-19 cases crossed the 16-million mark, with the United States having the most cases at over 4 million. The global death toll was 646,996, the US accounting for nearly a fourth of the total with 146,788....
The President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday listed 21 priority bills he asked Congress to enact in this second regular session of the 18 th Congress. . He again asked Congress to approve a bill reviving the death penalty for drug...
Amid so much news of business closures, job losses, and many nations seeing their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall to unprecedented levels, it is good to hear positive reports in some sectors, reports of expectations of recovery from the depth to which the COVID-19 pandemic has...
A recent study by researchers of the University of California at San Diego with the University of Toronto, and the Indian Institute of Science found that respiratory droplets from a cough or a sneeze can travel — depending on weather conditions — eight to 13 feet away before evaporating. The...
When President Duterte delivers his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today before Congress in joint session at the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City, he is likely to touch on so many issues and incidents that have recently affected the nation. Thus we may expect him to mention Congress’ action on...
In the last four months, the government has generally followed the decisions of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) and its decisions have leaned towards shutting down entire regions,...
In these times of uncertainty, when so many institutions, celebrations, and occasions for which we are known as a nation have been upended because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is good to know that President Duterte will carry on the tradition of personally appearing before...
The whole country – the whole world in fact – is reeling from the ill effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, both the death of thousands of people and the economic impact that has sent the country into a recession. And common ordinary folk are suffering from the effects of four straight months of...
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Wendel Avisado Friday issued Budget Circular 2020-4, upgrading the pay of entry-level nurses from Salary Grade (SG)-11 to SC-15 – from P22,315-P24,391 to P32,053-P34,801 a month. The adjustment is retroactive to January 1, 2020. It covers...
The four months of lockdown that began on March 16 are expected to contract the Philippine economy by 8 percent this year, making it one of the slowest to recover in Asia, according to an assessment by London think tank Capital Economics. The Philippine economy is deemed to have entered a technical...
