The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) is urging Congress to strengthen the current laws on retirement rather than creating a new private pension system, which, the labor group, said, may cost minimum-wage earners between P140 and P420 of their monthly salary.
Following the...
TO control the massive proliferation of water hyacinth in major water bodies, particularly Laguna de Bay and Pasig River, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) may soon tap small fishermen to do the job.
Considered as an invasive alien species in the...
ABOUT 900 independent lawyers and members of various law faculties are pressing the Supreme Court to take proactive measures that would protect judges, lawyers and members of the legal profession from threats and killings.
In a letter addressed to Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta and...
President Rodrigo Duterte, together with members of Congress, is set to visit the Eastern Visayas Region today, Thursday, March 18, to lead the implementation of the Barangay Development Program (BDP), which will provide the region's 200 barangays P20 million each for their socioeconomic development projects after being...
DAVAO CITY—Advocates to extend the transition period of the Bangsamoro government are set to file today, Thursday, March 18, 2021, at Malacañan Palace a petition signed by more than 1 million signatories, optimistic that President Duterte would accede to their request for an...
THE Supreme Court approved on Tuesday a proposal requiring judges to compel law enforcers to wear body cameras in the service of search warrants amid allegations of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) during police operations.
In a news statement, the SC-Public Information Office disclosed that the Court,...
Despite the slow pace of its immunization program and the recent spike in infections, the government on Tuesday announced it is targeting to eliminate novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the country by next year through the acquisition of new generation of vaccines.
Chief implementer of...
The chairman of the House Committee on Human Rights has strongly condemned the threats, attacks and killings of lawyers and legal practitioners in the Philippines, even as other lawmakers called on the lower chamber to look into the request for a list of...
CLARK FREEPORT—The Board of Directors of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC) is set to pass a resolution recognizing former President Fidel V. Ramos for his role in the conceptualization of the state-run firm on his 93rd birthday on March 18.
CDC Chairman Edgardo Pamintuan...
Minors have been banned anew from going outdoors for two weeks effective today, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in a bid to stem the surge of Covid-19 cases in the National Capital Region (NCR).
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced on Tuesday that only...
AN official of the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday warned that intensive care unit (ICU) beds for Covid-19 patients are “slowly being filled up.”
While hospital care utilization rate (HCUR) nationwide is still considered as “low risk” at 35 percent, Beverly Lorraine C....
Senators, before adjourning Monday, suspended sessions until Wednesday to allow disinfection of Senate premises after staffers of the Bills and Index Division were reported to be afflicted with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
“Just to play safe, we are declaring a lockdown,” Senate President Vicente...
