Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has urged state economic managers to reconsider allocating huge funds for the security sector for next year amid the “skyrocketing” national debt and a growing budget deficit. Drilon said he is dismayed at the negative growth in the social services sector...
Agriculture Secretary William Dar assured that efforts to help the livestock sector, which heavily dragged the performance of the country’s agriculture sector during the first half of the year, recover from the African Swine Fever (ASF) are in full force. Hog raiser Val Ruiz is in disbelief that...
President Duterte has ordered the swift and orderly distribution of cash subsidy to poor residents affected by the hard lockdown in Metro Manila. As enhanced community quarantine took effect in the capital region, people line up at a vaccination site located at Justo Lukban elementary school in...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has partnered with the Information Technology and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) to host a series of virtual job fairs that would benefit members of the local tourism industry. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Tourism Secretary...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is expected to bring home more than 7,000 stranded overseas Filipinos this month through a combination of chartered and Bayanihan flights. Photos of stranded Filipinos preparing to board a repatriation flight from Dubai last week. (DFA) This is despite the...
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...
The Philippine agriculture sector output decreased by 1.5 percent in the second quarter this year, its third consecutive quarter of decline, with its staple still reeling from the lingering impact of the African Swine Fever- (ASF). Farm workers thresh rice during a harvest, in the barangay of...
DOH/MB The Philippines has confirmed another 9,671 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Sunday, August 8. Active cases climbed to 77,516representing 4.7 percent of the country's overall tally of infections which stood at 1,658,916. Ninety-three percent of the currently ill-patients were...
Residents undergo Covid0-19 tests as the local government is now conducting "surveillance swabbing" in Davao City. The City Government of Davao has issued an executuve order requires all F1, F2 and F3 contacts of an RT- PCR confirmed positive case are mandated to be swabbed for testing. (Keith...
If the government is serious about reforming the country’s public school system and improve the learning outcomes of students, it should start by producing the best teachers, Senator Sonny Angara said on Sunday. Angara made the pitch as he renewed his push for the Senate to prioritize Senate Bill...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Thirteen hospitals in Metro Manila have already reached 100 percent utilization of their bed capacity dedicated for patients afflicted with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), based on the data of the Department of Health (DOH). As of August 6, the hospitals that hit full...
DOH/MB Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Philippines are continuing to rise as the Department of Health (DOH) recorded 11,000 new infections on Saturday, Aug. 7. There were 11,021 new cases detected, putting the country's running tally of confirmed cases to 1,649,341, as shown in the...
