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“The threat of hunger is as real as the threat of COVID-19.” Thus is the new battlecry of the Department of Agriculture (DA) as it pursues initiatives along with other government agencies to surmount the huge challenges, particularly in ensuring continued supply of adequate food at reasonable prices to consumers nationwide, during this national state […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat confirmed a total of 11,549 hotel rooms for the accommodation of repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are required to undergo a 14-day quarantine upon their arrival to the country. Meanwhile, business process outsourcing (BPO) employees are currently billeted in some 13,287 hotel rooms located in the National […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) said electric cooperatives (ECs) are working on a program to subsidizing the electricity needs of poor Filipino consumers following the two-week extension of the enhanced community quarantine. NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong said the proposed electricity subsidy program, dubbed as ‘Pantawid Liwanag,’ targets poor Filipino electricity consumers in the countryside whose […]
Local government units (LGUs) all over the country have been directed to allow overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that have completed their 14-day quarantines, or may be required to undergo mandatory home quarantine, to pass through their respective areas so they can go home. This is according to Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has taken steps to ensure the availability of wood materials needed for the construction of COVID-19 facilities and to transport food products across the country even as it ordered a nationwide suspension on the transport of forest products and wildlife species. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has exempted […]
The South Korean government recently donated 950 metric tons (MT) of rice to the Philippines, particularly for the thousands of Filipino families adversely affected by natural disasters and calamities last year. They include the earthquake victims in Mindanao, particularly in North Cotabato and Davao del Sur, and other areas in regions 11 and 12, and […]
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has recently released Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 20-12, Series of 2020 granting a 30-day grace period for the payment of residential and commercial rents with due dates within the the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) period. “To provide economic relief to Filipinos and MSMEs during the COVID-19 public health emergency, DTI […]
The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) stressed the need to give media workers equal protection, security, and benefits, especially now that the country is battling the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. PCOO Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco renewed his call for Congress to pass the proposed Media Workers’ Welfare Act to help address the vulnerabilities of media […]
Heeding the government’s call to produce more needed Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) in the country, member-companies of the Confederation of Wearable Exporters of the Philippines (CONWEP) will start the local production of medical-grade PPE coveralls for frontline healthcare workers. “We need to protect our healthcare workers as they are in the frontline of our fight […]
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will distribute P5,000 in cash subsidies to 600,000 rice farmers to help them with their needs during the extended enhanced community quarantine. “Our rice farmers will receive it as a direct cash transfer that they can use to buy either farm inputs, food for their families or anything they need,” […]