The cash aid (ayuda) distribution for the low-income individuals in the National Capital Region (NCR) that were affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) was already 97.92 percent completed, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Tuesday night, Sept. 7. In the...
Government employees in the city of Manila will be among the beneficiaries of the city’s sixth vertical housing project in Quiapo, the groundbreaking of which was held on Monday, Sept. 6. MANILA CITY PIO The groundbreaking ceremony for the 20-story San Sebastian Residences in Plaza del Carmen...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso is eyeing to build Phase 2 of the Basecommunity housing project for informal settlers located in the nation's capital. (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN) "Ngayon, nais kong i-share sa inyo, sabi sa inyo hangga't may katas ang...
Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) Chairman Greco Belgica led the launch of the agency's flagship program dubbed "Project Kasangga: Aksyon Laban sa Korapsyon" even as the Duterte administration appeared to be on the defensive regarding issues of alleged corruption. A COVID-stricken PACC...
I grew up a child of the energy industry in the 80s when Mindanao was frontier lands for electrification. I understood from a very young age how precious electricity was because where I lived, not everyone had it. And yet four decades on, still, not everyone has it. The Philippines fell short in...
San Miguel Corporation (SMC)'s P740-billion New Manila International Airport in Bulacan will be the first "pacesetter for green cities" in the country, addressing social and environmental concerns to be both sustainable and equitable, according to top urban planner Felino “Jun” Palafox Jr....
Our voice is powerful and should not fall on deaf ears. Protests by the youth are often seen as a nuisance despite being responses to underlying problems. Demands delivered on the megaphones or written on placards are not created on a whim but are borne from countless discourses among...
Small business owners have spent over a year adapting to the many challenges of operating during a pandemic and as economies slowly start to open up, the new normal has forced women micro-entrepreneurs (WMEs) to be nimble and flexible. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) According to...
The release of findings by the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as part of the organization’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) showed one glaring reality: climate action failure is increasingly impacting the state of our planet. As the report is quite...
“ Noong bata pa ako …” might be among the most common phrases we hear from our elders. They’d paint a wistful picture of a simpler world with fertile land, fresh air, clean water, and neighbors looking after each other. This is not the Earth of today's children. This International Youth...
After several exchanges of their experiences on social media over the past few days, Louise Mabulo, the founder of the Cacao Project, shares an update regarding the controversy related to the Israeli vlogger, Nuseir Yassin or Nas Daily. It started after Mabulo called out the social media...
Beauty queen-turned-TV host-actress Kylie Verzosa has belied the allegation of controversial Palestinean-Israeli video blogger Nas Daily over the achievement of Cacao Project founder Louise Emmanuelle De Guzman Mabulo. Recall that following Nas' "Whang-Od Academy scam," Louise deemed the foreign...
