Low-cost airline Cebu Pacific (CEB) on Friday said it has already issued PHP7.7 billion for refund requests filed until June this year, and is urging customers to check their remittance. Michelle Lim of CEB Corporate Communications said the refund covers all coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)-related flight cancellations since 2020. In a video message posted on CEB’s Facebook page, vice president for marketing and customer experience Candice Iyog said the airline has successfully completed 100 percent of the refund requests. “So please remember to check with your issuing bank and travel agencies for the remittance of your refund,” she said. Iyog
The National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 on Friday cautioned the public against believing unverified news related to the country’s pandemic response and the national vaccination program. NTF Deputy Chief Implementer Secretary Vince Dizon confirmed that overcrowding incidents on Thursday, a day before the imposition of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila, was due to false information. “Verified po natin na may naglabas ng fake news. Ito ngang walang bakuna walang ayuda kaya dumagsa ang mga kababayan natin galing sa iba’t-ibang lugar sa labas ng Metro Manila papunta sa Las Piñas, Antipolo, Maynila at sa iba’t-iba pang mga siyudad.
For the first time after being installed as the new head of the Archdiocese of Manila, Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula finally met his predecessor Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle. In a Facebook post on Friday, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) News reported that both Catholic Church officials met on Thursday at the Manila archbishop’s residence in Intramuros, Manila. It added that Tagle, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, is in the country for a short vacation. The former head of the archdiocese was in Rome when Advincula was installed to his new post
The province of Cebu is now debt-free and has seen improved financial health this year, Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said on Friday. Speaking at the commemoration of the province’s 452nd founding anniversary at the Capitol Social Hall, Garcia said the province had already settled its loan balance with the Land Bank of the Philippines amounting to PHP74 million last January 2021. As of June 30, Garcia reported that the province had a total of PHP7.2 billion cash position, a PHP10 billion increase in total assets to PHP211.3 billion, and a PHP200 million hike in net income to PHP1.5 billion. But for
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is pushing for the adoption of the newly-drafted municipal fisheries ordinance (MFO) among local government units (LGUs) to attain sustainable management of several bays in Eastern Visayas and Caraga regions. BFAR Eastern Visayas director Juan Albaladejo, lead person for fisheries management area 8 (FMA 8), said in an interview Friday the model MFO aims to provide a real template that can be easily adopted on the ground by LGUs in coastal areas. “This is to attain fisheries conservation and abundance in their respective municipal waters through a holistic and harmonized management approach
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for approving the budget for the re-hiring of its 15,000 contact tracers (CTs) until the end of the year to boost the country’s contact tracing efficiency amid the increase in Delta variant cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). “On behalf of our local government units (LGUs), lubos kaming nagpapasalamat kay Pangulong Duterte sa karagdagang pondo para magpatuloy ang serbisyo ng 15,000 contact tracers. Sa panahon ngayon na tumataas na naman ang mga kaso ng Covid-19 at sa pagsulpot ng mga panibagong variants, kailangan natin sila
