Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday urged the Department of Health (DOH) to mount a more aggressive information drive about the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to improve Filipinos trust in these shots. Lacson warned the vaccines that may arrive in the next few months may go to waste mainly...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go said he is against defunding the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite criticisms over its red-tagging activities. Go warned that the move to discontinue the allocation of funds to NTF-ELCAC could derail the government’s...
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) says rebel returnees in Laguna will soon embark on a new mission: learning how to farm. DAR-PNP SIKAP BUHAY The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) signed Friday, April 30 a memorandum of agreement to provide training...
The Philippines’ Labor Day celebration should be symbolically marked by a massive coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination drive for the country’s workers. Senator Joel Villanueva, chair of the Senate Committee on Labor and Employment, said the government’s plan to vaccinate a select group of...
More than 5,000 laborers, including Overseas Filipino Workers, are set to be inoculated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine, during the Labor Day symbolic vaccination on May 1, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Thursday, April 29. Galvez, who is also the chief implementer of...
Requiring workers to get a coronavirus vaccine could be a possibility in case of a low turnout in the immunization drive, according to a government adviser. (Photo by Martin BUREAU / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has appealed, however, to the...
Frontline workers of the Philippine Congress may get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) soon as they are now part of the A4 priority group of the government's vaccination program. House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN File photo/Alvin Kasiban) Presidential Spokesman Harry...
GMA News reporter Tina Panganiban-Perez Using social media as a powerful tool, digital powerhouse GMA Public Affairs is encouraging more Filipinos to get vaccinated against the coronavirus and help curb its spread through informed choices by launching the online advocacy campaign...
Cavite Representative Elpidio Barzaga, Jr. has filed a bill seeking to amend the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021 and make the government’s inoculation program against the coronavirus disease mandatory for individuals as “may be determined” by the Department of Health (DOH). DOH CHIEF...
Malacañang said that while President Duterte has not yet taken a position on the issue, the government has the authority to require vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as part of its police power. File photo Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque made the statement in his Monday...
Vice President Leni Robredo said that her supporters gave away more than 30,000 bowls of lugaw (rice porridge) during her birthday last Friday, April 23. Her supporters called the “National Lugaw Day” in reference to trolls calling her “Lugaw Queen” because her supporters sold porridge to...
ANGEL THOUGHTS FIRST LAY LEADER Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban, Ph.D., in the De Paul campus Meet a Fil-American, who has distinguished himself in the world of the academe in the US—A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, the 12th president of DePaul University in Chicago, the largest Catholic university in the US....
