Proactive disaster risk reduction and a whole-of-government approach in responding to increasingly frequent and intense natural calamities are key pillars under the administration of President Marcos Jr. Thus, said Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary and National Disaster Risk Reduction...
‘There and back again’ refers to a crucial point in a journey in which we may find ourselves looking at where we have been to make sense of where we are and where we are going “There and back again,” the underlying theme of this special holiday issue, is the subtitle to J.R.R. Tolkien’s...
F inally! More than 50,000 schools nation wide will open their doors today, Aug. 22, 2022 — a welcome step to normalcy after the two-year disruption caused by the global pandemic, which saw both teachers and students (and their parents) enduring the highs and lows of online learning. The school...
They say good things don't last. The Lenovo Yoga line, however, proves that a good thing just gets better. Since its launch in 2012, its ability to assume multiple factors - can be a laptop and a tablet - has been changing the way people work, learn, play and entertain. Imagine how one device can...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Is this the way media events have become? Clusters of people, their heads bowed to their gadgets, are somewhere else but not at the site. That’s the scene that I walked into when I finally went out of my “safe zone” and ventured into attending a media...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Aimee Neri will head the New Normal Committee of the poll body. Comelec Commissioner Aimee Neri during joint press conference with DILG on April 7, 2022 (Screenshot/DILG FB) Neri said she was appointed to the post Wednesday, April 6. "Just yesterday, I...
A shift from a pandemic to an endemic mindset will help mitigate the impact of external shocks, such as the Russia-Ukraine crisis, as well as minimize the long-term scarring effects of Covid-19, three of the government’s economic managers said. In a joint statement on Thursday, March 24, Finance...
Malacañang said that the government's new Ten-Point Agenda on Economic Recovery is not the Duterte Administration's exit plan from Covid-19 but is a part of making the country more resilient under the New Normal. Acting Presidential Spokesman and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar....
BAGUIO CITY – Team from the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (Code) of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 has lauded this Summer Capital as it became a role model city for its excellent transition to the new normal. (Photo courtesy of Rizaldy Comanda / MANILA BULLETIN) During...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, the country loosened many of its COVID-related restrictions on account of two factors—that infection numbers have been declining in the past few weeks, and that we are inching closer to vaccinating 70 percent of all Filipinos. The National Task Force...
As Metro Manila shifts to Alert Level 1 or the "New Normal" due to the declining number of active COVID-19 cases starting March 1, the Makati City government announced that it is now closing vaccination sites in schools and transferring them to barangay health centers. Makati City Mayor Abby Binay...
Given the ongoing decreasing trend of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in the Philippines, an OCTA Research fellow, on Monday, Feb. 28, said that the nation’s cases could further decrease to less than 1,000 by March 2022. (Tara Yap / Manila Bulletin) “Sana magpatuloy nga . We are...
