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QUEZON City, Philippines – Due to the severe effects of the El Niño, Puerto Princesa was placed under state of calamity to enable the usage of funds in order to aid citizens that were severely affected by the weather phenomenon. But the city cleared that the its tourist spots continue to be enjoyable and unaffected by the El Niño. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Zamboanga City is alarmed by the possibility of a norovirus outbreak, a highly contagious virus that results in stomach upsets like diarrhea. Four were reported dead due to said virus. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, April 20 – As the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) revs up its preparation for the 114th Labor Day celebration on 1 May, Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday reminded jobseekers to be armed and ready for their job search at the 44 job and career fairs venues nationwide. “Whether you are going to the job fair at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, or to another job fair in a particular […]
MANILA, Philippines (PIA) — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) announced today that funding for proposed projects under the FY 2017 Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) Program will total P35 billion, up by P10.3 billion from this year’s BuB budget. Of the P35 billion proposed budget for BuB, funds amounting to P19.7 billion—or more than 50 percent of the total—will be downloaded to beneficiary local government units (LGUs). These are cities and municipalities that have complied […]
It’s time for the first quarterly earthquake drill! It pays to be prepared! That’s why we are participating in the nationwide earthquake drill on April 21! Are you going to join? Like, share and say yes in the comments section #pagyanig Infographics designer: Dex Magno Writers/Researchers: MRF Bonalos & JP Carlos
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Office of Civil Defense is hoping that many will participate in the nationwide earthquake drill on April 21. This is the first quarterly earthquake drill for 2016 and will be led by the OCD and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/hcLg5qPMfaM
QUEZON City, Philippines – According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the Philippines is not next in line to experience an earthquake after Japan and Ecuador, adding that said countries are too far from the Philippines. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reminded the public that there will be a nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill on April 21. PHILVOCS added that the earthquake drill is usually done twice or thrice a year and the earthquake drill on Thursday has no connection to the various earthquakes hitting different parts of the globe. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Apr. 15 (PIA) — Mt. Apo, the country’s highest peak, is off limits to all mountaineers, an official of the city government of Kidapawan announced. Joey Recimilla, city tourism officer of Kidapawan and eco-tourism committee chair of the Mt. Apo Natural Park-Protected Area Management Board (MANP-PAMB), told Philippine Information Agency 12 that the PAMB has agreed to restrict climbing to the peak after the destructive forest fire. Recimilla said the PAMB, in […]
QUEZON CITY, April 15 — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is reminding all taxpayers that the deadline for the filing of 2015 Income Tax Returns and the payment of the tax due thereon, if any, is today, April 15, 2016. There will be no extension of the said deadline just like what was strictly enforced during the income tax filing/payment deadline in 2015. Tax returns filed and taxes paid after 5 pm of April 15, 2016 will be slapped with the […]
QUEZON CITY, April 14 — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), in partnership with GCash mobile money service, is relaunching the first mobile payment system in the country on 12 April 2016. Together with the USAID Facilitating Public Investment Project and the USAID E-PESO Activity, this computerization and digitization reform measure aims to improve tax collection and administration, curb corruption, and strengthen business climate in the country. GCash was first introduced for tax payments in […]
MANILA, Apr. 14 — Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz urged the public to call the DOLE Call Center S.M.I.L.E. Hotline 527-8000 to report child labor concerns or child labor cases to help prevent and eradicate child labor in their barangays. “Everybody must unite and be involved in the campaign against child labor to ensure the transformation of every barangay into child-labor free communities,” said Baldoz, adding that government is there to ensure that children are […]
