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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Acting Chairman Atty. Don Artes received the 2024 Senator Raul S. Roco Award for Public Service Excellence from San Beda University (SBU) Alumni Association during the agency’s flag raising ceremony at the MMDA Head Office in Pasig City. The award was presented by Atty. Dominador Buhain, President of the SBU Alumni […]
The Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the 2024-2028 National Integrated Cancer Control Program (NICCP) Strategic Framework, coinciding with the commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the National Integrated Cancer Control Act (NICCA). The new strategic framework outlines the vision and mission of the National Integrated Cancer Control Council (NICCC), […]
Concerned government agencies, led by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Department of Transportation – Philippines (DOTr), Land Transportation Office – Philippines (LTO), Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board – LTFRB, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), are seeking to regulate the use of electric motor vehicles and harmonize existing policies on them amid […]
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has further intensified its monitoring and enforcement operations against violators of Republic Act No. 11900 or the “Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). With its heightened enforcement operations, the DTI covers both physical and online stores, confiscating over 18,000 non-compliant […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) led by Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco and SM Development Corporation (SMDC) President Jose Mari Banzon formally awarded a brand new condominium unit courtesy of SM Development Corporation (SMDC) Quezon City to one lucky winner of the Bisita, Be My Guest (BBMG) incentive program. Ruperto Tumibay, a seventy-nine-year-old who hails from […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. led the awarding of various agri-fishery interventions amounting to P909.68 million for the farmers and fisherfolk in Iloilo recently. Through the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Western Visayas Regional Field Office (RFO), 515 farmer-beneficiaries received cash assistance totaling P2.347 million from the Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) Program and the Fuel […]
A safer, sturdier concrete bridge was recently-constructed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to replace an unstable makeshift bridge used by residents of Barangay 176, Caloocan City. In her report to DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan, DPWH National Capital Region Director Loreta Malaluan said that the new permanent bridge in Barangay 176 was […]
A road rehabilitation project undertaken by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) now benefits far-flung communities in the municipality of Pilar, Capiz. Traversing Barangay San Nicolas to Barangay Sinamongan Provincial Road, the project involved the construction of a 4.2-kilometer road and installation of box culverts with provision of metal guardrails, slope protection, and […]
Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel, Jr. recently inspected the nearly-complete second phase of the Jalaur River Multipurpose Project (JRMP), a P19.7-billion infrastructure development project of the National Irrigation Administration that will increase rice production and benefit 25,000 farmers and 4,500 indigenous people in Iloilo province. “This project, which we expect to complete within the year […]
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. led the conferment of awards to the 27 individual and group winners of the 2023 Search for Outstanding Government Workers on Wednesday, 14 February 2024, in Malacañang. Together with the President during the awards rites were Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairperson Karlo Nograles, CSC Commissioners Aileen […]