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Fifteen units of the Jeepko, Mahagnaw Transport Corp.’s state-of-the-art and highly modernized public utility vehicle, began full operations recently serving commuters between Tacloban City and the nearby town of Tanauan. The Jeepko, a Russian-made 22-seater Euro-4 compliant public utility van, was launched in March 2020 with six units operating during the height of lockdowns due […]
If the government wants to relax quarantine restrictions further and inject life back to the sputtering economy, then it must speed up the vaccination of essential workers in Mega Manila, which accounts for about two-thirds of the country’s economic output, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “Kung nais pong ipagpatuloy ang pagluluwag ng lockdown sa ‘NCR Plus,’ […]
The accumulation of household wastes as a result of the lockdowns, including medical wastes, has given rise to the need for proper waste management and other solid waste management treatment facilities to include waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities as an appropriate waste management strategy, said Senator Win Gatchalian, adding that the Department of Health (DOH) requires medical […]
Pointing out the difference in the pork import figures of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) for 2020, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said the Senate will try to solve both the suspected massive smuggling of pork products and the African swine fever (ASF), which has severely affected local hog growers. […]
Rising infections prompted local officials in Laoag City to convert another evacuation center in Barangay Cabungaan as additional isolation rooms for mild and asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Laoag Mayor Michael Keon said that the COVID-19 situation is getting out of hand and the city government is doing its best to isolate […]
A lawmaker urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to shift to a more targeted approach of household lockdowns to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Marikina City Representative Stella Quimbo said implementing variations of community quarantines covering a wide area, such as an enhanced community quarantine […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has upbraided Department of Health (DOH) officials for what he described as their “almost criminal negligence’ in virtually deserting the country’s health workers at the frontlines of the war against Covid-19 by failing to fully equip them with personal protective equipment (PPEs) that are essential in their daily battle to […]
President Rodrigo Duterte recently signed into law Republic Act 11535 or the Cooperatives Development Officer Act, which amends the Local Government Code of 1991 to authorize the creation of the Cooperatives Development Officer (CDO) as a mandatory position in all local government units. “This has been such a long-awaited bill by our cooperative sector, so […]
Senator Win Gatchalian called on energy sector agencies and other stakeholders to ensure uninterrupted and reliable power supply while strict home quarantine is called to be observed in all households and while the government rolls out its COVID-19 vaccination program. Electricity demand is usually higher during the summer months and as such, the reserve margin […]
The untold miseries of ordinary Filipinos amid the continuing quarantine should not be aggravated by the cruelty and violence of unworthy ground authorities who think they are above the law and can do what they want with impunity. Senator Grace Poe made the remark in the wake of the call for justice of the family […]