Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat hailed the government's decision to expand the vaccination rollout to the next priority group, which is the A4 cluster. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat visits Intramuros on Monday, May 17, 2021, as it reopens two of its most...
A health worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a vaccination center in Makati City on May 6, 2021 (ALI VICOY/ FILE PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN) The brand of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine that will be made available in vaccination centers should not be announced, the Department of Health...
State-lender Land Bank of the Philippines continues in administering support programs for the Department of Agriculture as part of the rice tariffication law’s (RTL) implementation to help Filipino rice farmers. In a statement on Wednesday, May 19, Land Bank said it has disbursed a total of P7.5...
Penal facilities in Nueva Ecija have agreed to become direct buyers of the produce of local farmer organizations for the purpose of meeting their daily food requirements, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said on Wednesday, May 19. Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Brother John...
More than 700,000 people in the country have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday, May 19. (DOH / MANILA BULLETIN) DOH Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje said that a total of 3,299,470 vaccine doses were already administered....
Everybody has a valuable role to play in agriculture. media Thus, said Cielito F. Habito, former socio-economic planning secretary and a professor from the Ateneo de Manila University during the first day of the 2021 National Food Security Summit (NFSS) organized by the Department of Agriculture...
A total of 13 staycation hotels in Metro Manila have resumed operations following the recent switch of the National Capital Region (NCR)-plus to a more relaxed community quarantine status. (Photo by Ralph Darabos / Unsplash) These staycation hotels have 5,986 rooms available for booking, the Manila...
Two big farmers’ groups have sought the intervention of the Senate regarding the recently issued Executive Order (EO) 135, which temporarily reduced the import tariff rates for rice coming from non-ASEAN countries. In their separate letters, the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) and Samahang...
The construction of the 2.3-kilometer (km) "twin tunnels" of the Davao City Bypass Road will start around July this year, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) bared Tuesday, May 18. TWIN TUNNELS -- The construction of the pair of 2.3-kilometer tunnels of the Davao City Bypass Road...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno'' Domagoso said on Tuesday (May 18) that he was just expressing an honest opinion when he mentioned the "super slow" deployment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines to local government units (LGUs). Manila City Mayor Francisco Isko Moreno Domagoso (Manila...
(DOH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines logged 4,487 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, May 18, the Department of Health (DOH) reported. Active cases nationwide increased to 52,291 which is 4.5 percent of the country's overall caseload currently at 1,154,388, the latest case bulletin showed. It...
Safer and more convenient walkways await commuters and pedestrians alike with the upcoming construction of the EDSA Busway Concourse Project next month, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said. Conceptual image of the EDSA Busway Concourse. (Photo from DOTr) The DOTr led on Tuesday, May 18,...
