More health workers slam confidential funds

Kathleen de Villa - Reporter 09/08/2023

As lawmakers scrambled to keep secret some government agency’s confidential funds, another healthcare workers’ group denounced the lack of funding for the salary increase of nurses and other medical personnel, which it said may help curb understaffing…

PH frigates get French antitorpedo defense systems

Dexter Cabalza - Reporter 09/08/2023

The country’s two Jose Rizal-class missile frigates have become more battle-ready after they were equipped with a French-made antitorpedo defense system. In a statement, the French defense contractor Naval Group said it finished installing the Contralto antitorpedo reaction…

Teachers’ group to VP Duterte: Use DepEd funds for shortages, not red hunt

Jane Baustista, Marlon Ramos, Melvin Gascon 09/07/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The funds of the Department of Education (DepEd) are better used for addressing shortages in classrooms and armchairs than for spying on students and educators with supposed communist links, The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said…

Biz group urges lifting of rice price cap after 2 to 3 weeks

Alden M. Monzon 09/07/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI) on Wednesday urged the government to limit the implementation of the price ceiling on rice to two to three weeks, warning that prolonging such a regulation could bankrupt…

RICE ALTERNATIVE? DOH suggests trying corn, sweet potato

Kathleen de Villa 09/06/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, advised the public to consider alternative sources of carbohydrates to rice amid fears of a rice stock shortage after the government implemented a price…

Compliance with rice price ceiling still low

Dexter Cabalza, Inquirer Bureaus, Jordeene B. Lagare 09/06/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Retail prices of rice in Metro Manila started to decline on Tuesday, the first day the price ceiling on the Filipino staple food took effect, according to a monitoring conducted by the Department of…

Philippine inflation rose to 5.3% in August

Ronnel W. Domingo 09/05/2023

MANILA  -Headline inflation revved up to 5.3 percent in August, after waning throughout the previous six months, bringing the average since January to 6.6 percent, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. The result for August is closer…

House sets P2-billion aid to ease impact of rice price cap

Jerome Aning, Julie Aurelio 09/05/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives is earmarking P2 billion to ease the impact of the price ceiling on rice on retailers who bought their stocks above the cap of P41 a kilogram for regular-milled and…

Senators question Palace’s 2022 allocation to OVP

Marlos Ramos, Melvin Gascon 09/05/2023

Vice President Sara Duterte admitted to senators on Monday that her office received over P221 million in confidential funds from the Office of the President (OP) in December 2022, a budget entry that did not exist in…

With no more baby plans, Beauty Gonzalez hopes to work with ‘baby boy’ Donny Pangilinan

Allan Policarpio 09/03/2023

Now that Beauty Gonzalez’s only child is 7 years old, some of her followers have been asking if she still has plans of having another baby. Beauty, however, has already made up her mind: She’s happy and…

Easing rice import tariffs better option than price caps – FEB

Ronnel Domingo 09/03/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) has called on the Marcos administration to temporarily lift or at least cut import tariffs on rice to check surging prices of the staple grain and avert a possible “full-blown…

Dissatisfaction with senior high program shows DepEd’s failure – Gatchalian

Melvin Gascon 09/03/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The high rate of Filipinos dissatisfied with the senior high program shows the Department of Education’s (DepEd) failure to deliver its promised results, said Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, citing a recent survey conducted by Pulse Asia.…

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