The National Soil Health Program (NSHP), which intends to rejuvenate the country’s degraded and “sick” soil, has received the green light from President Duterte, the Department of Agriculture (DA) bared Wednesday, June 9. (Photo courtesy of DA) The NSHP will be implemented by the DA through...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade has reiterated his warning against "fixers" and fake license pages that have been proliferating on social media platforms. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade (Ali Vicoy / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Tugade said he has been...
In this file photo taken on April 21, 2020, a member of the Philippine National Police Special Action Forces uses a megaphone to remind shoppers to practice social distancing during a government imposed enhanced quarantine as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Manila....
The Department of Health (DOH), academe, and private sector are pushing for digital solutions to "effectively manage coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases" and to improve the country's healthcare system. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Alethea De Guzman, Director of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau, said...
The Philippine government's recent mining policies appear to have weakened the protective and accountability elements of regulating mining in the Philippines . This is according to Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), which expressed dismay over new mining policies being pushed by the Department of...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) said it does not consider Davao City as an "epicenter" of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the continuous spike of infections in the area. "Davao City is not an epicenter," said DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire on Wednesday, June 9. Vergeire said...
President Duterte's first impression about Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar was wrong. President Rodrigo Duterte leads the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the NLEX-SLEX Connector Road Project in Caloocan City on February 28, 2019. Assisting the President are Public...
Workers wait for their vaccination inside SM Manila cinema that has been converted into a COVID-19 vaccination site on June 8, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/ Manila Bulletin) The Philippines has already administered more than six million COVID-19 vaccine doses three months after its vaccination program...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is set to file charges against individuals behind the alleged counterfeit cigarette tax stamps seized recently in Bacolod City. In a statement released by the DOF on Wednesday, June 9, the department quoted BIR Deputy...
The Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS) has welcomed the announcement of the Department of Health (DOH) that Pfizer jabs could now be administered to children aged 12 to 15, its spokesperson said Wednesday, June 9. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with GMA New's Unang Balita, PPS spokesperson...
(DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH) The country logged 4,777 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday, June 8, raising the total tally to 1,280,773, the Department of Health (DOH) said. Of the total cases, 4.4 percent or 56,452 are active cases with 93.2 percent experiencing mild symptoms, 2.5...
The government may not have enough funds to cover the back wages of thousands of government nurses for now, Malacañang admitted Tuesday following a reversal of a budget circular that affected the health workers' pay status. President Spokesman Harry Roque (File photo/Malacañang) According to...
