A VENDOR wearing a face shield sells vegetables in a market in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – Living in Western Visayas (Region 6) is expensive, at least for the time being. Inflation – the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time – in the region is higher than the...
The number of unemployed Filipinos climbed in May as there were not enough jobs for the growing working-age population entering the labor market, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed on Thursday, July 7. Based on the PSA’s May 2022 Labor Force Survey, the country’s...
Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno clarified that President Marcos is not disputing the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) June inflation report, saying the chief executive only misinterpreted the data given to him. In a televised interview over ANC on Wednesday, July 6, Diokno explained...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Police Regional Office (PRO)-10 reported Monday, July 4, a significant decrease in the crime rate in Northern Mindanao from January to June this year. The regional headquarters of Police Regional Office 10 located at Camp 1Lt. Vicente G. Alagar, Barangay Lapasan, Cagayan...
Economist-congressman Joey Salceda of Albay's 2nd district believes he has a better way of tackling the inflation problem. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) This, as the solon prodded the economic team of newly-inaugurated President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to focus on...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has reported an increase in the average rate offer in the electricity retail market space at P4.05 per kilowatt hour (kWh) as of April this year; from a leaner average of P3.63 per kWh weighted average as of its monitoring report in 2021. The electricity...
A health reform advocate, on Saturday, July 2, challenged President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to increase the country’s Covid-19 booster rate to at least 70 million within the first 100 days of his administration. File photo (AFP/Manila Bulletin) “Sa first 100 days ni President...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The Covid-19 positivity rates in Metro Manila and nine other areas continued to exceed the 5 percent threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the latest monitoring of the OCTA Research Group. In an update shared on Twitter on July 1, OCTA fellow...
Outgoing Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Sec. Eduardo Año lauded on Wednesday, June 29, the Philippine National Police (PNP) for its contribution in reducing the crime rate across the country. Año attributed the decline in crime to the aggressive campaign against illegal...
The evident increase in the country’s Covid-19 cases is not yet a cause for “real alarm” but the public should still be vigilant against the increasing transmission of the virus, a health expert said on Monday, June 27. (Ted ALJIBE / AFP) The Department of Health (DOH) recently placed five...
(DR. GUIDO DAVID / TWITTER) The Covid-19 positivity rates in Metro Manila and eight other provinces in the country have continued to increase over the past week, OCTA fellow Dr. Guido David said on Monday, June 27. David, in an update shared on Twitter, showed that as of June 25, the Covid...
DAVAO CITY – The local task force on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has urged unvaccinated and individuals eligible for boosters here to get inoculated to protect themselves from transmission and severity of the disease as it reported that the positivity rate has increased to three percent...
