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Senator Raffy Tulfo urged the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to investigate a former mayor in Davao del Sur along with others for alleged graft and corrupt practices. During the recent hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Services which Tulfo chairs, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) revealed that up to […]
Senator Raffy Tulfo questioned the Bureau of Immigration’s (BI) apparent lack of vigilance and failure to timely file cases against erring employees of pertinent offices of the local civil registrar and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) who are in connivance with foreign nationals in the issuance of fake Philippine passports and birth certificates. Tulfo, Chairperson […]
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) forecasts that production of palay (paddy rice) for the third quarter (Q3) of the year, based on standing crop as of September 1, 2020, would reach 3.542 million metric tons (MMT), 16.1 percent more than last year’s harvest of 3.051 MMT for the same three-month period. “The 16.1% increase in […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said the deceleration of the country’s headline inflation to 2.7 percent in June would give the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) more elbow room to adjust policy rates. Gatchalian, chair of the Senate committee on economic affairs, said the BSP could start easing its policy stance to help the country’s growth trajectory […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has welcomed the latest government data on the continued decline of unemployment and underemployment rates as a “positive sign” that efforts to generate jobs for Filipinos continue to matter. The April 2019 Labor Force Survey by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that unemployment dropped to 5.1 percent from 5.5 percent while underemployment […]