Over 21,000 overseas and local jobs will initially be offered at the online job fair on Dec. 10 and 11, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. In a statement, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III urged jobseekers to take
Farmers who want to avail of the government’s agricultural free patent program have until the end of the month to file their application at all Community Environment and Natural Resources Offices (CENROs) nationwide. According to the Land Management Bureau (LMB)
The Bureau of Customs reported that its Mactan, Cebu sub-port, recently seized 14 kilograms (kgs) of live fish from Taiwan. In a statement, the BOC said the shipment, that lacked the required Import Clearance from the Bureau of Fisheries and
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has upheld a government anti-insurgency body’s petition seeking cancellation of the Gabriela Women’s Party’s registration in the party-list system for violations of the election law and the Constitution. In an order dated November 27, and
A government survey showed that only 35,455 of more than 1.4 million kasambahay or household service workers (HSWs) have a signed contract with their employers. The Department of Labor and Employment and the Philippine Statistics Authority conducted the survey last
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III discounted the need for another stimulus measure, citing the plan to use unused Bayanihan to Recover as One Act and national budget allocations. During the virtual briefing of the inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee Thursday,
The country’s unemployment rate has eased to single-digit in October, coming from a high of 17.7 percent in April and 10 percent in July. The Philippine Statistics Authority reported yesterday that the number of unemployed Filipinos in October slowed down
The Department of Labor and Employment yesterday encouraged displaced tourism workers in the formal and informal sectors to avail of the financial assistance and emergency employment program of the government. Through Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2020-001 signed by DOLE Secretary
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for drugs and vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Duterte signed Executive Order (EO) No. 121 on December 1, granting authority to the director general of the Food and Drug
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has, so far, repatriated some 277,320 distressed overseas Filipinos since the coronavirus pandemic struck. Since it began its Covid-related repatriation efforts in February 2020, at least 86,413 sea-based overseas Filipinos and 190,907 land-based Filipinos
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is taking proactive steps to protect its pensioners from the dangers of extreme heat following PAGASA’s warning of unprecedented temperatures reaching up to 46 degrees Celsius in 24 areas across the country. Old-Age and
Following an intense 2-day competition, Delimondo’s Gelimae Villanueva and Bianca Lizares ruled the 1st Governor Bong Lacson Beach Volleyball Tournament (Women’s Open Category) held at the resthouse of Jose G. Montalbo in Spur 14 Purok Langka, Brgy. Bunga, Don Salvador
An octogenarian who lost her house in a fire at Purok 9, Brgy. Aguisan, Himamaylan City on Tuesday, immediately received aid from Mayor Raymund Tongson and the City Social Welfare and Development Office, a press release from Himamaylan PIO said.
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO The Negros Museum in Bacolod City is hosting an all-women Korean art exhibition from April 19 to 22. Bacolod Councilor Em Ang, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on History, Culture and Arts, was guest of
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An alleged member of the New People’s Army recently surrendered to the Philippine National Police in Talisay City, Negros Occidental. Through the combined efforts of police intelligence operatives of the Talisay City and Murcia Police Stations,
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Six more self-confessed New People’s Army rebels surrendered to the 11th and 61st Infantry Battalions in Negros and Iloilo, respectively, according to reports of the Philippine Army. Three of the six NPA rebels surrendered to the
