MANILA – An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday assured that they are doing all their best to ensure that the conduct of elections next year is safe amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We would like to assure the good senator (Senator Francis Pangilinan) and the public that the Comelec is doing anything it can to make sure that the elections are safe. Remember the Comelec controls certain areas of the elections, particularly filing of the certificate of candidacy, the conduct of the campaigns, the conduct of the election day, and the counting and canvassing as well as

MANILA – The Philippines has received a total of 2,279,160 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Thursday, the biggest shipment of the American-made jabs through the COVAX Facility. accine Czar, Secretary Carlito Galvez, Jr., said as soon as the inspection has been completed and the DHL logistics gives a go-signal for distribution, the government will immediately deploy the vaccines to areas with appropriate cold storage facilities. Around 1.9 million doses were transported to Manila, while 210,600 each were allocated to Cebu and Davao region. In Luzon, the latest donation will mostly go to Metro Manila, Laguna,

MANILA – The resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is an “exercise in futility” at this time. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), in a statement on Friday, rejected the renewed call to reopen the GPH-NDFP peace panel in the wake of continued attacks by communist terrorist groups (CTGs). “As these recent spates of attacks will bear us out, we believe the resumption of national peace talks at this point is an exercise in futility, given that the implementation of Executive