According to Minister Raisa Jajurie among the recipients were farmers, motorcycle and public transport drivers, fisherfolk, carpenters, and construction workers whose daily incomes and livelihoods were severely affected by the pandemic.
“We deeply regret that the report on education was inadvertently published earlier than scheduled and before the Department of Education had enough chance to provide inputs. This was an oversight on our part, and we conveyed our personal apologies in our communication with the government,” World Bank stated.
The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, and Energy in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MENRE-BARMM) has awarded Wednesday environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) to three local government units (LGUs) and three business firms in the region.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has completed the construction of two school buildings in the province of Tarlac 1st District, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Around 20,000 additional training scholarship slots will be opened this year by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for the poor and marginalized sectors in Region 12.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) opened several temporary off-site passport service (TOPS) sites to help address the current backlog and satisfy the country’s increasing demand for passport processing.
PSA will soon roll out a website and offline mechanisms to enable relying parties, such as government agencies and financial service providers, to verify, using public-private key cryptography, the digital signature in the QR (quick response) code and confirm that the demographic information is accurate and has not been tampered with.