The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will intensify its efforts to repatriate Filipinos in Beirut, Lebanon, Malacañang said Wednesday.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the assurance after the DFA confirmed that two Filipinos were killed, eight were injured, and 11 went missing in the …
Read MoreThe Philippines saw another single-day record spike in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases with 6,352 new infections reported on Tuesday.
In its Covid-19 bulletin, the Department of Health (DOH) said the new Covid-19 cases raised the overall tally to 112,593.
The DOH said …
Read MoreThe National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday announced the suspension of clearance processing in all areas under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) from August 4 to 18.
In a statement, NBI officer in charge Eric Distor said the areas covered by the …
Read MoreThe Philippine Army is optimistic that more combatants of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Samar province will surrender with local government units offering more financial assistance to rebels who will completely abandon the armed struggle.
Each surrenderer with firearms will get up to …
Read MoreIn compliance with stringent protocols under the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ), the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Tuesday announced that it would no longer allow walk-in transactions in its Central and National Capital Region (NCR) offices.
In an advisory, the LTFRB …
Read MoreSome 13 financial institutions and digital payment firms are waiving their PESONet and InstaPay transaction fees until end-September this year while 11 banks will do it until yearend.
In a statement Tuesday, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released an updated list of banks …
Read Moreecretary Menardo Guevarra on Tuesday said employees of the Department of Justice (DOJ) would once again be working from home.
“(Workers will go) back to work-from-home with rotating skeleton staff to man the front line and other key offices,” Guevarra said in a message …
Read MoreA lawmaker on Tuesday urged the Social Security System (SSS) to release funds to its branches for pandemic loans, members’ benefits, and other operational requirements amid reports of long queues and delays.
In filing House of Representatives Resolution 1093, Cagayan de Oro City Rep. …
Read MoreSenator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go opened on Tuesday the country’s 78th Malasakit Center through virtual launching at the Rogaciano M. Mercado Memorial Hospital (RMMMH) here.
He also turned over a PHP10-million assistance to the center during the opening rites.
The Malasakit Center is …
Read MoreThe National Telecommunications Commission in Davao Region (NTC-11) said it has collected over PHP68 million within the first seven months of the year, surpassing their target for 2020 by PHP4 million
NTC-11 Director Nelson Cañete reported that for July alone the agency managed to …
Read MoreNegros Occidental’s Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board), led by Vice-Governor Jeffrey Ferrer, held an online session on Tuesday after the session hall and their offices were closed for a three-day decontamination.
The disinfection began on Monday when it was confirmed that an employee of a …
Read MoreThe government will be assisting locally stranded individuals (LSIs) seeking to return to their respective provinces with a “new approach” in a bid to tighten protocols on social distancing, Presidential Management Staff Assistant Secretary Joseph Encabo said Tuesday.
Encabo, lead convenor of the program, …
Read MoreQuezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Tuesday condemned the post of a local city official suggesting a “shoot to kill” approach for modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) violators.
“Ang pahayag ng pinuno ng Task Force Disiplina na si Konsehal Rannie Ludovica ay aming kinokondena, …
Read MoreThe Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Tuesday said there are only 14.1 million family beneficiaries eligible to receive assistance under the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP).
DSWD Undersecretary Glen Paje said from the initial 17 million target beneficiaries of the agency, …
Read MoreMalacañang on Tuesday distanced itself from the suggestion of new Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay, to have the use of social media regulated under the implementing rules and regulations of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020.
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Read MoreMalacañang on Tuesday distanced itself from the suggestion of new Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay, to have the use of social media regulated under the implementing rules and regulations of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020.
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Read MoreMalacañang on Tuesday said it does not yet see a need for the government to sell public properties to boost the social amelioration program (SAP) funding in areas under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made the remark after President Rodrigo …
Read MoreThe government is studying to provide tax incentives to companies that would maintain the number of their workforce amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic and community quarantine measures, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said on Tuesday.
“We’re trying to consider for companies that they …
Read MoreGovernment workers required to physically report for work should be provided with transportation, especially during the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) and ECQ where public transportation is not allowed to operate.
Civil Service Commissioner Aileen Lizada made this reminder to government heads of agencies …
Read MoreAs President Rodrigo Duterte reverts Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) from general community quarantine (GCQ), the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has reminded the public on the establishments that are closed under a stricter community quarantine.…
Read MoreThe provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) here has prohibited the holding of mass gatherings, including religious activities, in all the 11 towns and one city effective on Monday.
Governor Albert Garcia, IATF chair, said the group decided to arrest …
Read MoreA portion of the Bacolod City Government Center (BCGC) has been closed for 14 days until August 13 for disinfection and preventive decontamination after another city employee was tested positive of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
The City Treasurer’s Office (CTO)-Land Tax Division, located on …
Read MoreThe Philippine Navy (PN)’s first missile-frigate, the BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), has made a stopover over Naval Base Guam Sunday, on its way to join the Rim of the Pacific 2020 (RIMPAC 2020) which will be held off Honolulu, Hawaii from August 17 to 31.…
Read More– Local carriers Cebu Pacific (CEB) and Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Monday night announced the cancellation of their flights to and from Manila from August 4-18, in line with the government’s decision to revert the National Capital Region and neighboring provinces to the modified enhanced …
Read More– Local carriers Cebu Pacific (CEB) and Philippine Airlines (PAL) on Monday night announced the cancellation of their flights to and from Manila from August 4-18, in line with the government’s decision to revert the National Capital Region and neighboring provinces to the modified enhanced …
Read MoreSM Prime Holdings Inc., one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia, on Monday reported a 46-percent decline in consolidated net income in the first half of 2020 to PHP10.4 billion, from PHP19.3 billion during the same period last year.
In a …
Read MoreA total of 2,413 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are already home in their respective provinces in Caraga Region as of August 1, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in the area (OWWA-13) said in a statement Monday.
OWWA-13 said the OFWs were sent home through …
Read MoreUnidentified motorcycle-riding gunmen shot dead a newly-assumed barangay councilor in front of his daughter here Monday morning.
Capt. Abdulsalam Mamalinta, chief of the Pendatun police station, said Barangay Baluan councilor Abdulmajid Mamalumpong was gunned down at around 8:20 a.m. at a gas station in …
Read MoreSurigao del Norte Governor Francisco Matugas is calling on the communist New People’s Army (NPA) to release Police Staff Sergeant (PSSg.) Restie R. Dandan “the soonest possible time”.
In a statement on Monday, Matugas also condemned the NPA for abducting the police officer and …
Read MoreAs part of the services offered by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Davao Region (OWWA-11), the agency has reiterated its call for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and their dependents to avail of its free Information Technology (IT) Training Program.
In a statement on …
Read MoreThe social action arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Monday urged the public to do their share in the fight against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) by staying at home.
Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo, of the National Director of NASSA/Caritas …
Read MoreTwo hundred linemen of the Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) here joined Monday the first-ever “Linemen Appreciation Day” initiated online by the National Electrification Administration (NEA) and the Philippine Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives (PHILRECA).
Engr. Godofredo Homez, Cotelco general manager, said, the program aims …
Read MoreEighty-nine motorcycle drivers were fined in North Cotabato since the Aug. 1 implementation of the “No barrier, No back ride” policy issued by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Data from the North Cotabato Police Provincial Office showed that of the …
Read MoreThe provincial government of Guimaras on Monday remembered the sea tragedy that left 31 passengers dead after three motor bancas capsized off the Iloilo Strait exactly one year ago.
A virtual commemoration of the maritime accident started with mass followed by a short program …
Read MoreGilas Pilipinas Men and Japan are assured of slots in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, the first time that multiple nations will collaborate as hosts, as announced by FIBA on Monday night.
The world’s basketball governing body said both squads, which participated in last …
Read MoreGilas Pilipinas Men and Japan are assured of slots in the 2023 FIBA World Cup, the first time that multiple nations will collaborate as hosts, as announced by FIBA on Monday night.
The world’s basketball governing body said both squads, which participated in last …
Read MoreGovernor Eugenio Jose Lacson renewed his commitment of support to the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) led by Col. Romy Palgue as it continued to be at the forefront in the battle against the coronavirus disease 2029 (Covid-19).
“As we face this pandemic …
Read MoreShip-to-ship transfer operations of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has resumed in Subic Bay with the arrival here of a tanker over the weekend, but no crew was allowed to disembark in strict observance of health protocols in this Freeport.
SBMA Chairman and Administrator Wilma …
Read MoreThree children beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) have recently volunteered in the implementation of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) here.
Christian Maluya, son of one of DSWD’s modified conditional cash transfer-homeless street families (MCCT-HST) …
Read MoreAn official of the Bureau of Customs in Northern Mindanao (BOC-10) said Saturday it will be sending back the last batch of the South Korean trash to its country of origin next Tuesday (August 4).
In a text message, BOC-10 district collector John Simon …
Read MoreThe Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will install three more solar-powered sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Metro Manila after unveiling the first one along Roxas Boulevard in Manila on July 30.
DENR Secretary Roy A. Cimatu on Sunday said similar solar-powered STPs …
Read MoreThe first day of strict implementation of the motorcycle back riding policies netted 1,350 violators, the Joint Task Force (JTF) Covid Shield said on Sunday.
A data from Philippine National Police (PNP) showed that 1,284 motorcycle riders were apprehended on Saturday for failure to …
Read MoreBelieving that wildlife conservation work must proceed uninterrupted even during a pandemic, a private firm donated boxes of quarantine and maintenance supplies to the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) to sustain its day-to-day needs.
In a statement Sunday, Rodel Prado, property manager of DMCI Homes’ …
Read MoreThe Pasig City Hall will operate anew with a “skeletal workforce” for two weeks beginning Monday, Mayor Vico Sotto announced Sunday.
In a Facebook post, Sotto said the local government’s skeletal workforce will start from August 3 to August 16 except health-related offices and …
Read MoreTwo of hundreds of survivors of the Marawi siege faced the public here on Saturday to pay tribute to Fr. Teresito “Chito” Soganub, the Filipino priest who survived four-month captivity in the hands of the Maute-ISIS in 2017.
The Pakigdait, Inc., VSO Philippines, and …
Read MoreUniversity of the Philippines (UP) got the commitment of Carl Tamayo and Gerry Abadiano to join its men’s basketball team for the upcoming University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) season.
Tamayo and Abadiano, formerly of Nazareth School of National University, will be playing …
Read MoreAt least 227 fresh infantrymen took their oath as new members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (6ID) based in this province on Friday.
The new soldiers, consisting of 38 women and 189 men, took their oath …
Read MoreThe Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) here has prohibited passengers from bringing a send-off party inside the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Negros Occidental in compliance with health protocols to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
“May we again remind the …
Read MorePresident Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to reconsider tightening the community quarantine status in Metro Manila to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Malacañang said on Saturday.
This, after medical front-liners called on the Duterte …
Read MoreThe Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu on Saturday announced that it would not hold Masses even though the province has been placed under general community quarantine (GCQ).
In an advisory posted on its Facebook account, the basilica instead urged the faithful to …
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