DOLE distributes P600-M assistance to nearly 200K workers

MANILA – Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello on Monday said almost 200,000 formal and informal workers received PHP600 million cash assistance from the...

Gov’t praises health workers days before Day of Valor

Duterte won’t need to get retested for Covid-19

MANILA – There won’t be a need for President Rodrigo Duterte to undergo a second round of testing for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Malacañang said on Monday....

Angara fully recovers from Covid-19

  View this post on Instagram   After several days in the ER and the covid wing my doctors finally sent me home today– negative for...

PRRD OKs special risk allowance for public health workers

  MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday signed an administrative order granting a special risk allowance (SRA) for public health workers (PHWs) assigned on the front...

POEA suspends deployment of Filipino health workers

MANILA – The Philippine government has temporarily suspended the overseas deployment of health care workers amid the state of public health emergency in the country due to...

PNP sues 32 Covid-19 fake news peddlers

MANILA – The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday said it has sued 32 persons for allegedly spreading false reports and information on the coronavirus disease 2019...

Duterte to decide on possible extension of ECQ in ‘due time’

MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte will decide whether he will approve of a possible two-week extension of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) “in due time”, Malacañang said...

Duterte donates 1-month salary for Covid-19 response

  MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has opted to donate his one-month salary to raise the national government’s emergency funds allocated to curtail the spread of coronavirus...

DA to distribute P5K cash aid to farmers amid health crisis

MANILA — The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Sunday said it will distribute PHP5,000 cash subsidy to 600,000 rice farmers to help augment their needs amid the...