If there's anything that the pandemic taught Richard Yap as a father, it's the importance of time well spent with loved ones. Note the actor-model-businessman actually battled COVID-19 for months. Richard shared that being isolated from his family made him realize how fleeting time is. He...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Friday called on the Senate to expedite the passage of the bill that seeks to grant rent subsidy to informal settler families (ISFs). De Lima made the call as she expressed elation that this particular measure has been approved by the Senate Committee on Urban...
The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) on Friday, June 18 said it will conduct a review on cooperatives affected by the ongoing pandemic. CDA chairperson Usec. Joseph Encabo (Screenshot from PTV) Undersecretary Joseph Encabo, CDA chairperson, said the review will seek to determine what...
Senator Joel Villanueva has asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and other concerned government agencies to release the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the law granting scholarship for qualified medical students. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) The chairman of the...
Who's really calling the shots now? Senate President Vicente Sotto III raised this question as he slammed on Friday, June 18, the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases for refusing to ease the rules on the use of face shields amid the pandemic. Senate...
The money used by ordinary Filipinos to purchase face shields could have been used to buy food and other essential items they need during the COVID-19 pandemic, former vice president Jejomar “Jojo” Binay said on Friday (June 18). (Jojo Binay Facebook/Manila Bulletin) “Buti sana kung libre ang...
EDITORS DESK We do not exactly know when this horrible pandemic would end, but one thing is sure when you talk to scientists, environmentalists, and conservationists – there is a looming pandemic that concerns the environment. More than a year of wearing face shields, donning PPEs, having food...
Coronavirus infections in Africa are surging as a third wave of the pandemic gathers pace on the continent, fuelled by the spread of more contagious variants, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. "Africa is in the midst of a full-blown third wave. The sobering trajectory of surging cases...
The rate of joblessness in the country has slightly decreased amid the ongoing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest survey of Social Weather Stations (SWS). The SWS said 25.8 percent of the country’s adult labor force remains unemployed, which is 1.5 percent lower than the...
An international public health expert has urged Filipino voters to remember in next year's national elections the positive improvements in the United States government's handling of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis after last year’s presidential elections. Public health and...
The Senate Committee on Urban Planning, Housing, and Resettlement has approved proposals for the grant of monthly rental subsidies to informal settler families (ISFs) and other eligible beneficiaries displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as evictions and demolitions. In this file photo taken...
DAVAO CITY - The Department of Health (DOH) Davao Center for Health Development recorded 725 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the region on Wednesday, June 16. Based on the DOH Regional Situation Update on COVID-19, as of 5:00 pm today, the total number of active cases in the region...
