Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte is also no longer interested to pursue the Department of Education’s (DepEd) request for a P150-million worth of confidential funds for 2024. Sen. Pia Cayetano, who is defending DepEd’s proposed P718-billion budget for 2024, read...
Presidential adviser on creative communications Paul Soriano is no longer connected with the Department of Tourism (DOT), so said Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara. Angara, Senate Committee on Finance, disclosed this during the Senate’s deliberations on the proposed P5.768-trillion...
Vice President Sara Duterte is no longer asking Congress to grant its proposed P500-million confidential funds for 2024 because the issue has been “divisive.” Vice President Sara Duterte (Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook) In a statement sent to the media on Thursday, Nov. 9, the official noted the...
The Philippines will soon introduce a high quality rice poised to enter the international market. (MB FILE PHOTO) It will be called "Lakambini" rice, the Philippine Rice Institute (PhilRice) said. PhilRice Development Communication Division Head Hazel Antonio bared that they will be coming up with...
Transmission firm National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has tossed the blame on the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on its delayed rate-setting; while forthrightly claiming that all of its incurred costs and expenses are ‘legitimate’ and according to the regulatory principles...
The 7.8 million customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will need to cough up higher budget in their electric bills this month, as the company’s overall pass-on tariff went up by P0.2347 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to P12.0545 per kWh from P11.8198 per kWh in the October billing cycle. For...
Businesses offering unlimited rice were urged to be stricter in imposing sanctions over rice wastage. Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) officials made the call during a Palace briefing to launch the 2023 National Rice Awareness Month on Thursday, Nov. 9....
Senator Francis Tolentino on Thursday, November 9 urged the Senate to craft a law that would set guidelines and parameters concerning the use of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF). During the plenary debates on the proposed national budget for 2024, Tolentino said it is...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Rep. Co's office) House Committee of Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zalday Co foresees smooth sailing between House members and senators once the bicameral committee hearing on the proposed 2024 national...
Crime volume in the country has decreased by more than eight percent from January to October this year compared to the same period in 2022, with the Philippine National Police (PNP) attributing it to strategic anti-crime measures that include the accounting of wanted persons and the campaign...
A small packet of 'shabu' A National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) official clarified on Monday, Oct. 9 that the 200 kilos of "shabu" that were reportedly seized by authorities in Pampanga last August wasn't actually shabu. The confiscated substance was...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has identified a total of 357 areas that falls under the Red Category for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE), around 70 percent of them are located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Red Category is described as...
