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
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN An Army general has reiterated that the 3rd Infantry Division does not engage in “red tagging,” which he stressed is not a government policy. Maj. Gen. Marion Sison, 3ID commander, disclosed that the information presented to
• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO “A mother is the heartbeat of her home, the pulse of her family’s existence.” In honor of all mothers, a group art exhibit titled “Handog kay Nanay” opened at the second level of Robinson’s Place Bacolod
Forty Child Development Workers (formerly called Day Care Workers) from all the 23 barangays of E.B. Magalona in Negros Occidental, attended yesterday a one-day workshop on reading literacy at the Municipal Building. This was the second leg and expanded training
• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Following the declaration of a state of calamity in Kabankalan City in Negros Occidental, the Department of Trade and Industry has approved its request to implement a price freeze on basic commodities. Mayor Benjie Miranda requested
DEVOTION. Vendors selling devotional items across the San Vicente Ferrer Parish-Shrine, also known as “Vito Church” located at Barangay Vito in Sagay City, Negros Occidental.* Andrew Altarejos photo
Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson called on athletes of the province who will be part of the delegation of Western Visayas to the Palarong Pambansa in Cebu on July to “contribute medals” to the cause of the region. Lacson
