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Acting Presidential Spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles underscored in a press briefing today, January 25, 2022, the importance of booster doses as additional protection against severe and critical COVID-19 cases. “Mismong si Pangulong Duterte ang nagbigay-diin noong Disyembre hinggil sa halaga ng booster shots, lalo na para sa pagkontrol ng pagkalat ng nakakahawang Omicron […]
A party-list for educators is supporting a bill filed in the Senate that aims to protect teachers and school staff against false and malicious accusations. Senate Bill No. 2477, or the Classroom Management Support and Protection for Teachers Act, which Sen. Leila de Lima filed last week, seeks to put in place support mechanisms for […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has called on fellow lawmakers to help boost the country’s economic reemergence by passing the proposed Balik Probinsiya, Balik Pagasa (BP2) bill that aims to boost development and create more jobs in the countryside. “I urge my colleagues in the Congress to make a final push for the passage of the Balik Probinsiya bill […]
Senator Dick Gordon urged the Department of Health (DOH) in augmenting its testing capabilities through the administration of saliva tests amidst a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country. Gordon, chairman of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), explained that they will be offering more saliva tests across its 13 functioning molecular laboratories as a cheaper […]
San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) group-wide reforestation initiative nationwide has yielded 3.8 million trees since 2019 to date, even as it recently completed planting over 26,000 trees in Angat, Bulacan together with the town’s Dumagat communities. The initiative is among SMC’s major environmental sustainability projects aimed at helping address the impacts of climate change through the […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said if we want to protect delivery riders from fake bookings and hoax orders, we should also protect them from rude customers. Gatchalian made the call in the wake of a video that went viral over the internet of a food delivery rider who was assaulted by a customer for having no […]
According to the United Nations, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) topped overall responses to communities struck by Super Typhoon Odette. “With our mandate of being always first, always ready, and always there, we will continue to be the first to respond to save lives and provide immediate humanitarian assistance and protection to those with the […]
A pandemic-driven surge in online merchandise sales is generating a huge volume of new plastic waste every day, mainly from the widespread use of “bubble wraps” to package goods ordered by consumers, Makati City Rep. Luis Campos Jr. warned on Sunday. “If you make an online purchase today, chances are you will receive the item […]
In rolling out a learning recovery program to address learning loss amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Win Gatchalian is proposing to tap college students as tutors. Under Senate Bill No. 2355 or the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Program Act which Gatchalian filed last year, tertiary level students may volunteer as tutors provided that […]
The National Center of Electric Cooperatives’ Consumers (NCECCO) has elected former National Electrification Administration (NEA) administrator Edgardo Rama Masongsong as its Secretary-General.NCECCO is the national organization of Electric Cooperatives’ (ECs) MCOs or Member-Consumer-Owners that espouses a vision of being a vanguard of the rights and interests of all electricity consumers nationwide, which Masongsong upholds to […]