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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has assured that the owners of the MV Racal IV that sank off the town of Jasaan will take full responsibility for the oil spill incident in Misamis Oriental last April 3. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in Region 10 (Northern Mindanao) […]
Acting, dancing, and singing. That exhilarating feeling when the show reaches its closing scene. These are the things theater enthusiasts long to experience again. Although canceled shows and live-streamed plays are scenarios theater faces today, most theater organizations must adjust and innovate in this time of the pandemic since mass gatherings are forbidden. By defying all odds, […]
Despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to lift the moratorium on new mining operations, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has vowed to scrutinize pending applications for mineral agreements to ensure that they will not pose adverse effects to the environment. “There is no automatic approval even if these mining applicants submit all the […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is appealing to President Duterte to certify as urgent the nearly year-old measure designed to boost investments, create jobs and drive strong growth outside the metropolis—to finally, end the country’s traditional overreliance on Greater Manila as its main engine of economic growth and development. Villafuerte said the presidential endorsement of […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu has urged local government units (LGUs) to pursue investments in the Risk Resiliency Program (RRP) to boost the country’s preparedness in mitigating the impact of climate change. Cimatu, who also chairs the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation and Disaster Risk Reduction […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, together with National Housing Authority (NHA) and LGU officials, led the turnover of Yolanda housing units in Santa Fe, Cebu on April 20, 2021 as part of the Duterte administration’s commitment to complete and distribute all promised housing units to beneficiaries in affected areas. The virtual turnover of 1,000 houses was […]
Loans extended by state-run National Electrification Administration (NEA) to electric cooperatives (ECs) reached P102 million in the first quarter of 2021. Latest data from the NEA Accounts Management and Guarantee Department (AMGD) showed that from January to March this year, P102.4 million in loans, including calamity loans, were released to five ECs. These ECs availed […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III disclosed that 67,347 beneficiaries from the National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal, collectively known as the NCR Plus, have been approved to receive the one-time P5,000 financial assistance under the DOT-DOLE Cash-For-Work Program of the Bayanihan 2. Of […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has taken necessary measures to mitigate the impact of an oil spill incident off the town of Jasaan, Misamis Oriental. The oil spill resulted from the sinking of cargo vessel MV Racal IV that has been docked in a shipyard in the coastal town of Jasaan for […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte wants the Department of Health (DOH), the Interagency Task Force on the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) and the National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF) to give updates on the projects supposed to have been funded under the Bayanihan To Recover As One Act (Bayanihan 2) to contain the prolonged […]