An effective management of coronavirus risks will allow the country’s economy to recover to the pre-pandemic level by early next year, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. During a recent virtual economic briefing, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Tuesday, Nov. 30 vowed to rid the streets of extortionist law enforcers who victimize jeepney drivers of some P300 of their earnings a day. ‘’That's a promise,’’ according to Lacson who said that he had done this when he headed the...
President Duterte has called on Filipinos to "be a hero" like Andres Bonifacio whose 158th birth anniversary the nation commemorated by way of a non -working holiday on Tuesday, November 30. (Screenshot from Facebook live) "I invite every Filipino to become a hero like Bonifacio by participating...
The Department of Health said on Tuesday, Nov. 30 that the Philippines achieved the fifth spot among the countries with the highest single-day vaccination worldwide. Thousands of Zamboanga residents troop to a barangay multipurpose hall for the first day of Bayanihan Bakunahan on November 29, 2021....
Senator Imee Marcos on Tuesday, Nov. 30 said mass vaccination alone is not enough for pandemic control if new variants like Delta and Omicron keep emerging. Marcos, chairwoman of the Senate Economic Affairs committee, stressed that ‘’we need to get ahead of their spread through early detection...
Out of the target three million vaccinations, around 2.5 million Filipinos have been inoculated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the first day of the National Vaccination Days on Monday, Nov. 29. Thousands of Zamboanga residents troop to a barangay multipurpose hall for the first day...
The Muntinlupa City government has vaccinated nearly 7,300 individuals on the first day of the Bayanihan, Bakunahan national vaccination campaign on Nov. 29. The national government’s three-day campaign from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 aims to vaccinate at least nine million Filipinos or three million...
An estimated 2.4 million individuals were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) on the first day of the national vaccination drive on Monday, Nov. 30, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said. But Año emphasized that the figure is not...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday vowed to ensure there would be sufficient funding for the Senior High School Voucher Program (SHS-VP) to prevent the government’s debt to private schools from accumulating and risk affecting beneficiaries of the program. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate...
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Manila International Container Port (MICP), backed with government's anti-narcotics operatives, seized some 15 kilos of shabu during a buy-bust in Caloocan City. The operation also resulted in the arrest of Randy Rafael, according to the MICP report....
The Philippine Army (PA) deployed two medical teams to assist in the administration of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines during the kickoff of the National Vaccination Days on Monday, Nov. 29. The Philippine Army deploys two medical teams for the National Vaccination Days to be held from Nov....
Vaccinating nine million individuals in a span of three days will be the biggest and “most ambitious” program of the government to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Monday, Nov. 29. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. speaks at the ceremonial...
