The government is eyeing more resettlement housing projects for the victims of the Taal volcano eruption in Batangas province, the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) said Wednesday. This, after DHSUD Secretary Eduardo del Rosario has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with San Nicolas Mayor Lester de Sagun over the weekend for the land acquisition deal that will pave the way for the construction of a resettlement site in the municipality of San Nicolas, Batangas. Del Rosario has been visiting the province for a series of assessments and inspections. In his visits, Del Rosario committed to assisting
Hundreds of residents of Ifugao province completed their training from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) that they can use to start their own business and help boost the country’s rice and food production. In a message delivered during the graduation activities in Lamut and Alfonso Lista towns and sent to the Philippine News Agency on Wednesday, TESDA-Cordillera regional director Jeffrey Ian Dy said the government is investing in human resource skills enhancement to be able to allow individuals to help improve their livelihood, which would redound to the country’s economic growth. One of the graduation rites was
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will offer scholarships for construction-related training programs to produce force multipliers and to speed up the reconstruction of typhoon-damaged houses in Negros Occidental. TESDA Regional Director for Western Visayas Jerry G. Tizon, in a phone interview Wednesday, said their central office has already approved the training for 225 slots for Masonry (National Certification) II; Carpentry NC II, with 50 slots; Electrical Installation and Maintenance (EIM) NC II and Shielded Metal Arc Welding NC I with 50 slots each; and Plumbing NC I with 25 slots. “As soon as the regional qualification map
Officials of the education department in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Wednesday condemned the killing of schools district supervisor Javier Kumandi Sr. in Tacurong City on January 17. In a statement Wednesday, Minister Mohagher Iqbal of the Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education (MBHTE)–BARMM said they wanted justice to be served for the death of Kumandi. “The shooting incident was heart-rending and tragic,” Iqbal said. Kumandi, district supervisor of Pandag, Maguindanao under the MBHTE-BARMM, was killed in an ambush while driving his vehicle in Barangay San Pablo, Tacurong City around 7:30 p.m. that ill-fated day.
The expansion of limited face-to-face classes was a result of “high confidence” from President Rodrigo R. Duterte and education stakeholders on the successful pilot implementation in 287 public and private schools nationwide, the Department of Education (DepEd) said Wednesday. In a statement, the DepEd said the pilot implementation from November 15 to December 20 last year gained satisfactory results and positive feedback from learners, teachers and parents. “There was no recorded confirmed Covid-19 case among the 15,683 learners who participated in the pilot implementation of limited face-to-face classes,” the statement read. The department’s evaluation showed that learners who participated in
A total of 492 new cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected from the 714 samples sequenced last January 14, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Wednesday. In a joint statement with the University of the Philippines – Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) and the University of the Philippines – National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH), the DOH said 115 cases are positive for the Delta variant and one Alpha variant. The Omicron cases composed of 332 local cases and 160 returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs). The addresses of the cases were in the National Capital Region, 227; Region
