Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano issued an executive order declaring June 30 a special non-working holiday in the city in line with the inauguration of President-elect Ferdinand Bongbong” Marcos at the National Museum. Rubiano said the declaration of special non-working holiday in the city...
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (Malacañang photo) Outgoing Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said he has no more plans to return to government service after his stint as the country's top health official. “Ay hindi na. Kasi 21 years of my productive years nilaan ko...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) expressed hope that its next secretary as well as the Marcos administration will stick to "science" in implementing the different policies regarding public health. Among the challenges that the DOH is facing is the spread of “misinformation and...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Cebu provincial government settled into forming guidelines before making the wearing of face mask optional in the province. DILG logo DILG Secretary Eduardo Año said Friday, June 24, that they are waiting for the implementing rules...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) allotted close to P272 million worth of emergency loans for members and pensioners affected by massive flooding brought by heavy rains in Davao de Oro province in April. (GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM) GSIS is accepting applications until July 5,...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) granted a total of P221 billion of loans to 1.38 million active members and pensioners nationwide from January 2021 to May 15, 2022. (GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM) “We rolled out several programs under our 'Ginhawa for All' benefit bundles to...
The national government borrowed less than expected after interest rate for long-term Philippine debt papers rose. At the Bureau of the Treasury auction on Tuesday, June 14, the yield for the seven-year Treasury bond with a remaining life of six-year and 11-months settled at 6.740 percent. The...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Cebu Chapter, in coordination with the Bureau of Fire Protection and Local Government Unit, immediately dispatched its two ambulance units that treated three patients with minor injuries in a fire at a residential area in Sitio Tuburan, Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu...
Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III Monday, June 13 said policies on how to contain Covid-19 pandemic should be science-based and science-driven. Senate President Tito Sotto (Photo from Senate President Tito Sotto's office) Sotto stressed this as Cebu officials made a decision making...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans rose amid expectations of higher inflation. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on June 13, the bellwether 91-day T-bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, increased to 1.572 percent from 1.440 percent previously. The Bureau of...
The Commission on Audit (COA), on Wednesday, June 8, flagged the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) for unreliable accounting in the agency’s “Abandoned/ Surrendered Property/Assets,” noting that it had left unreported over 100 items in its inventory which include artworks and...
In order to combat the continuing widespread corruption in government, state agencies should pursue digitalization or accelerate digitization in their processes and transactions, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Friday, June 10. “All government collections should be paperless or done through...
