APO Cement is raising the price of its cement products by P10 per bag in Cebu and other parts of Visayas, citing the suspension of its main supplier after the landslide in Cebu months ago. In a…
Oil companies will implement today a much-awaited big-time rollback on the prices of petroleum products. This is the fifth straight week that oil companies have lowered prices of fuel; diesel is expected to decrease by P2.00 –…
As early as now, Susana Navarro, 52, is already planning on what to prepare for Noche Buena on Christmas Eve on December 24, in celebration for the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25. Navarro used to…
Inflation in October rose 6.7 percent year-on-year, the same rate of increase in prices of basic commodities as last September, an over nine-year high. But National Statistician Lisa Grace S. Bersales noted that the month-on-month increase in…
DOMESTIC inflationary pressures — which made local consumer prices accelerate to their fastest levels in almost a decade in recent months — seem to be abating and may, in turn, make the central bank pause from its…
FOR AUGUST High food prices pushed up inflation among the country’s poorest families to 8 percent year-on-year in August, the government reported Monday. The rate of increase in prices of basic goods among those belonging to the…
What the government should do instead is to tax the sale of cars, with rates going up the more expensive the units. Then charge them with higher road user’s fee when they register their cars. Early this…
3RD BATCH OF RICE IMPORTS to arrive in nov. Around 600,000 bags of imported rice will be distributed in Central Visayas by the end of the year. Olma Bayno, National Food Authority in Central Visayas information officer,…
MALACAÑANG assured the public yesterday that the government is taking steps to address the issue on the increasing prices of commodities due to the continuous rise of inflation rate in the country. “We all know that our…
While believing that it can still be solved, House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called on President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic team to “move faster” on their implementation of policies to ease up the accelerating inflation. Arroyo’s statement came…
Senator Grace Poe has expressed alarm over the continuous increase in the price of oil in the market, as she urged the government to fully implement relief measures for consumers and act against possible abuses of petroleum…
Transport group Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (PISTON) believe that increases in fuel prices will continue until year-end. Greg Perez, PISTON Cebu coordinator, said that fuel price increases could even reach as much as…
