The ordinance that prohibits the sale, purchase, and consumption of alcoholic beverages, or City Ordinance No. 2021-18, was lifted in Navotas City on Saturday, Oct. 16. This followed the announcement that Metro Manila has been placed under Alert Level 3, effective on the same date. Under this alert...
Visitors to cemeteries and memorial parks in Taguig are allowed to stay in the premises for up to two hours only under the guidelines issued by the city government. The city government’s Taguig Safe City Task Force has issued Advisory No. 53 on the operation of cemeteries, memorial parks and...
The implementation of the number coding scheme and truck ban remain suspended in Metro Manila even as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions would be downgraded to Alert Level 3 beginning Saturday, Oct. 16. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority...
The Taguig City government urged the public to visit cemeteries before the implementation of the closure of these places on “Undas.” “In anticipation of the coming All Souls' Day and All Saints' Day, the Metro Manila Council announced that all cemeteries, memorial parks and columbaria in the...
Less than a year before his term ends, President Duterte is being pressed by environment groups to act on their call to ban the use of single-use plastics as they assert "plastic pollution crisis should be addressed as urgently as the COVID-19 reponse." Environment groups EcoWaste Coalition, Break...
Malacañang announced that Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, and Slovenia have been added to the so-called red list countries, prohibiting travelers from the said nations to enter the Philippines starting Sept. 19, 2021. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the...
The Manila city government lifted its liquor ban as Metro Manila shifted to Alert Level 4 of the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) on Thursday. Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso signed Executive Order No. 29 series of 2021, allowing all concerned establishments to sell liquor in the city. The...
President Duterte has approved the imposition of travel restrictions on passengers coming from nine countries placed under the "Red List" in order to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Philippines. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN In a statement, Presidential Spokesman...
Senators have raised concern on the government's decision to lift the travel ban despite the surge in COVID-19 cases in the Philippines. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) While daily coronavirus cases increase by the thousands locally -- over 20,000 for four consecutive days so far -- the...
Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, September 6, said the lifting of immigration bans on 10 countries by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases is ‘’reckless, if premature.’’ Senator Imee Marcos (Senate of the Philippines) Travelers from Bangladesh,...
Vice President Leni Robredo can’t wrap her head around the decision of the Philippine government to lift the travel restrictions earlier imposed on 10 countries despite the rising number of daily coronavirus cases locally. Vice President Leni Robredo (BISErbisyong Leni/Facebook) Speaking on her...
Despite the growing number of daily cases, the Philippines is set to lift the travel restrictions on travelers coming from 10 countries starting Monday, Sept. 6, 2021, Malacañang announced. This, after the countries were placed for months on the travel ban list due to the threat posed by the...
