NEDA hopeful on PH’s economic growth expansion in 2024
April 24, 2024
The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) on Thursday announced the holding of the 2021 Indigenous Sports and Games Webinar Series: Preserving and Promoting the Rich Cultural Heritage of our Ancestors in conjunction with the celebration of Indigenous Peoples Month. The webinar series is scheduled on October 7, 21, 28, and November 5 at 1 p.m. through the Zoom video conferencing platform. The four sessions will serve as a continuation of the Webinar launch last June 24. Over 1,000 participants have registered for the four-part webinar series which aims to promote and preserve the traditions and culture of the Indigenous Peoples. “Four
Small businessmen producing Cordillera products and visual artists have been provided an additional area to display and sell their items at the “Layad di Kordilyera” located in one of the local malls in the city’s Session Road. Jogin Rey Tamayo, a cartoonist at the Baguio Midland Courier, the region’s longest-running weekly newspaper, on Wednesday said the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic offered an opportunity to collaborate and partner with budding visual and handicraft artists in the city and other provinces in the region. From a core group of nine people who are into different forms of art, they have gathered
The continued reopening of the economy due largely to the vaccination program is expected to help boost government revenues and address the rise in expenditures. Last August, government spending rose faster than revenues, resulting in the 201.78-percent year-on-year rise in budget gap to PHP120.9 billion. “Further measures to reopen the economy from MECQ/ECQ (modified enhanced community quarantine/enhanced community quarantine) in NCR (National Capital Region), with the shift towards granular/smaller lockdowns, would eventually allow greater capacity for many businesses/industries in terms of higher production, sales, net income, employment/jobs, and other business opportunities, thereby increasing the government’s tax revenue collections and help
With a goal of helping ease the financial woes of Filipinos amid the pandemic, fintech startup Mynt will be introducing the “buy now, pay later” service feature on mobile wallet GCash app. “We want to create something more compelling and relevant than what’s currently available,” Mynt CEO Martha Sazon said on Thursday in response to questions from the Philippine News Agency. The new service feature will be launched this year, although Sazon said she couldn’t give a specific date yet. In the Philippines, an e-commerce platform has been offering the same scheme, applying interest rates of 1 to 5 percent
The Department of Agriculture (DA) in Western Visayas has distributed 8,105 heads of native chicken to farmers associations, cooperatives, and individual farmers in the region under its Livestock and Poultry Livelihood Assistance Program as of the third quarter of this year. “This is a support to the livelihood of our farmers, for income generation and to increase the production of our native chicken in Western Visayas,” said DA regional livestock program coordinator Glenn Mariano in an interview Thursday. He said under the department’s regular fund they have already released 5,220 out of the target 6,000 heads this year. The recipients
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized 6,357 liters of unmarked diesel at one of the retail gas stations of a petroleum company in Pampanga, as it continues to step up its nationwide fuel marking and monitoring program to curb oil smuggling. Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero said the BOC Port of Clark has issued a warrant of seizure and detention against the operators of the gas station in Arayat, Pampanga of Petromobil Corporation after a field testing operation by the BOC and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) last September 3. “Follow-up field testing operations were conducted covering other
