OFW from Spain not allowed entry in Maasin City

Jani Arnaiz 04/29/2020

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) supposedly from Spain was not allowed entry in the city after he failed to present the proper documents from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) for returning…

SBWS program to provide wage subsidy for formal sector workers affected by ECQ

Irene R. Sino Cruz 04/29/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Here’s good news for formal sector workers who were unable to avail of the one-time cash assistance under the COVID-19 Adjustment Measures Program (CAMP). While the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) could no longer…

Quarantine measures in N. Mindanao leave 106K workers jobless

Froilan Gallardo 04/29/2020

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — A month after local government units imposed drastic quarantine measures in Northern Mindanao more than 106,000 workers were left without jobs and are now dependent on government food subsidies to survive.…

Cortes wants new jail facility in Brgy Basak used as isolation center for COVID-19 positive PDLs

Norman V. Mendoza 04/28/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The Mandaue City government is preparing the jail facility in Sitio Dunggo-an in Barangay Basak as a temporary quarantine facility for Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) coming from the Mandaue City Jail and…

Aboitiz Group eyes agile strategy as it continues to operate amidst the COVID-19 outbreak

Irene R. Sino Cruz 04/28/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippies—The Aboitiz Group and its business units are ready to face head-on the challenges brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak by adhering to an agile approach in 2020. In an emailed press…

Eastern Visayas has 6 more COVID-19 cases

Jani Arnaiz 04/27/2020

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Philippines – The Eastern Visayas Department of Health Center for Health Development (CHD), announced this afternoon during a virtual presser that six patients were found positive of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).  This…

DSWD SLP beneficiaries paying it forward in this time of crisis 

Irene R. Sino Cruz 04/27/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines—The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might have brought suffering to the low-income families but some have risen above this crisis, as they provide assistance to frontliners in their own ways. These people with…

Secretary Dar: PH will have enough rice supply until March 2021

Irene R. Sino Cruz 04/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The Department of Agriculture projected that the country would have a 94-day rice buffer stock would continue by the end of December 2020. “We would like to inform the public that based on our…

House-to-house search for possible COVID-19 patients in brgy in CDO

Froilan Gallardo 04/26/2020

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines — Medical workers are conducting a massive house-to-house search in Barangay Camaman-an here to search for neighbors of a recently died COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) patient who might have been infected of…

Cebu Olympian Tabal spends ECQ time on self-reflection, healing

Mars G. Alison 04/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A time for self-reflection and healing. This is how Cebu Olympian long distance runner Mary Joy Tabal is spending the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) which is being implemented by the Cebu City government…

BJMP isolates 29 PDLs in close contact with Mandaue City Jail’s COVID-19 patient

Norman V. Mendoza 04/25/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – At least 29 individuals who came in close contact with a detainee of the Mandaue City Jail, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), have been ordered isolated from the rest of…

Wounded soldiers identified; 4 NPAs killed in Negros clash

Florence Baesa 04/24/2020

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental — The two soldiers who were wounded in an encounter with members of the New People’s Army in Barangay Gawahon, Victorias City, Negros Occidental on Friday, April 24, 2020, have been identified. This…

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