The Caloocan City government has opened two drive-thru vaccination sites in a bid to help delivery riders get easy access to COVID-19 jabs amid the threats posed by the coronavirus disease and its variants. Mayor Oca Malapitan said the local government launched Tuesday the drive-thru inoculation...
Around six million doses of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines will be delivered to the country this week as the government seeks to bounce back from the decelerated inoculation program in the past two weeks. Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. (File photo/ Office of the Presidential Adviser on...
CAVITE - Governor Jonvic Remulla appealed anew to the Department of Health (DOH) to send more vaccines to Region 4-A local government units (LGU) amid the surging pandemic. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (August 17), Remulla attached a graphic illustration showing the disparity between the total...
Anti-narcotics operatives arrested a drug pusher and seized P3,031,100 worth of suspected ecstasy during a controlled delivery operation in Barangay Gibraltar, Baguio City, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Thursday, Aug. 12. In a Viber message, PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has finally ended the "monopoly" of a private logistics provider following widespread complaint against delays and confusions that marred the delivery of passports to applicants. Philippine passport (R. Mabasa) “I finished off QRS. They’re dead and...
More than 17.98 million doses of vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will be delivered in the country in the remaining days of the month, the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 revealed Monday night, August 9. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. presents updates on the country's...
The delivery services, a segment in the burgeoning domestic logistics industry, is boosting the entrepreneurship spirit among Filipinos. The Santos family of Las Piñas started a small hardware business and progressed as distributor of construction materials, particularly cement. “I was only 21...
Ride-hailing firm Grab Philippines will be giving out rewards to vaccinated driver-partners and delivery riders as a way to encourage them to get the jab and support the inoculation efforts of the government against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
Seeking to empower more communities and ensure people-centered development, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has officially launched the Additional Financing (AF) of the Kapit-Bisig sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services - National...
As far as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is concerned, food delivery and courier riders are covered by either the Labor Code of the Philippines or the contract or agreement they have with their respectively digital platform company, depending on the existence of an employer-employee...
The government is counting on the full delivery of the coronavirus vaccines it procured from China's Sinovac Biotech earlier than expected. The latest batch of of Sinovac vaccines procured by the government arrive in the Philippines on July 17, 2021 (National Task Force against COVID-19/Twitter)...
The Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship has approved a bill that would protect delivery riders against hoax orders and cancellations. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, committee chairman, disclosed Tuesday, July 13, that he already filed...
