Presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo emphasized the importance of the national government's partnership with the local communities and the church in addressing teenage pregnancy. Filipino pregnant mothers (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) During the CBCP Presidential Forum aired Friday...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, March 24 bared that "many" individuals, "who initially did not want to serve in the government," have now expressed interest to be Cabinet members of a possible Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. administration. Imee said during the Pandesal Forum that "many are now...
The Duterte administration has “successfully” completed its three-tranche foreign commercial borrowing on the back of volatile financial markets overseas, the Bureau of the Treasury announced. The Treasury bureau said Tuesday, March 22, that the government raised $2.25 billion, or roughly P118...
The Duterte administration will sell fresh debt papers to overseas investors, including the government’s maiden green bond issue, a document from the Bureau of the Treasurer revealed. Based on a Treasury document obtained by reporters on Monday, March 21, the government is planing to raise funds...
Loan releases by State-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the pension fund for government workers, jumped to P151 billion in 2021, driven mainly by support to members who have reached borrowing limit and unable to pay loans. In a statement, Rolando Ledesma Macasaet, GSIS president and...
The national government substantially increased the amount of subsidy it extended to government owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) last January, particularly to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA). Financial support extended to the state-owned companies accelerated in the first...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) together with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will carry out an information caravan dubbed as MAGHANDA or the Meteorological and Geological Hazard Advisories, Warning, and Notifications for Decisive action throughout the 17...
The national government posted a bigger budget deficit in the first month of the year owing to higher interest payments, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The government incurred a P23.4 billion fiscal gap in January 2022, higher by 66.3 percent compared with P14.1 billion in the same...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Wednesday, March 16, to boost information caravan for disaster preparedness. DOST Undersecretary Renato Solidum Jr. (left) and DILG Undersecretary...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año has rejected and denounced the call of a retired Army general for a revolutionary government. "Such remarks are reckless and careless, especially at this time when the country will soon hold elections for a new set of...
Partido Reporma standard-bearer Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson has said nothing is impossible for a leader who knows how to practice what he preaches, especially when it comes to the application of single standard policies aimed at eradicating the ‘endemic’ culture of corruption in government....
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana slammed retired general Antonio Parlade Jr. on Tuesday night, March 15, for allegedly involving the military in his personal agenda to call for a revolutionary government. Former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed...
