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The Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative, Inc. (ORMECO) is ramping up efforts to address the power supply problems within its coverage area, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) said. ORMECO Project Supervisor and Acting General Manager Norberto Mendoza acknowledged that the rotational power interruptions implemented under its service area in the past weeks were due to supply […]
Shipping containers rebuilt by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and Villar Group of Companies into mobile rooms have already been deployed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex, Pasay City. Secretary Mark Villar said the high cube container vans converted into mobile rooms can be used as additional COVID-19 isolation […]
The tourism scene in the Philippines will be “vastly different” once travel activities will again be allowed as part of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) measures, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said. The “new normal” would involve enforced health security standards for both tourists and personnel, including the “re-training” of tourism workers, Romulo-Puyat stressed. In a Go […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is supporting the “BigMa” (Bigas-Mais) rice-corn blending initiative of listed firm AgriNurture, Inc. (ANI) and groups of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in Mindanao to devote vast tracts of idle land for planting white corn as an alternative to reduce dependence on imported rice. In a virtual press conference, Agriculture Secretary William […]
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has expressed its support to the appeal of the Department of Health (DOH) to smokers to quit as they are more vulnerable to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Last month, Dr. Beverly Ho, special assistant to DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III, reiterated in its Beat COVID-19 virtual press conference […]
Exports of agriculture and fishery products have provided the bright spot to the otherwise bleak picture of the country’s trade numbers. The Department of Agriculture said export shipments of agri-fishery products from January to March 2020 grew by 12 percent to $1.31 billion, from $1.17B recorded for the same period in 2019, citing data from […]
Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar has announced that a new health facility to treat COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has been completed in southern Metro Manila through the efforts of the government and the private sector. The 9th “We Heal As One” Center was put up at the Filinvest Tent in Alabang, Muntinlupa City […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has directed all electric cooperatives (ECs) to prepare and implement emergency measures to brace for the possible impact of Tropical Depression “Ambo” on power distribution facilities. The NEA through its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Department (DRRMD) issued an advisory requiring the 121 ECs to activate their respective Emergency Response […]
To bring quality and affordable fish and aquatic products to residents in Metro Manila and other urban areas in the country amid the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) being enforced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched “isDA On-the-Go” and the “Seafood Kadiwa” to complement its […]
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez commended the 12-member National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR), which he leads, for the seven-year exclusion of the Philippines from the counterfeiting and piracy watchlist of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). This, according to Lopez, is a positive positioning that helps ensure the country’s […]