The Iloilo provincial government is putting in place a system that will make it easier to identify the status of roads from the provincial down to the barangays.
Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the National Taskforce Against COVID-19 to commit to a vaccination timeline before making public statements amid devastating unemployment in the country.
The DSWD in Central Visayas on Thursday said it will provide counseling and stress debriefing to the 19 indigenous peoples children who were rescued from a university retreat house here before sending them back to Mindanao.
“Our job as lawmakers is to ensure that the lives uprooted by the pandemic can return to normalcy, and to pass the necessary policies to absorb and cushion the damages to our people. We have to do it swiftly and with the highest degree of urgency,” Cabatbat assured.
“By having fewer branches and ATMs, LandBank’s reach and accessibility to government employees, LGUs, and government aid beneficiaries are severely limited," said Fortun.
The Department of Transportation said it is ready to implement a proposal from the National Economic and Development Authority to increase the passenger capacity of public transport vehicles from 50 percent to 75 percent.
The country is well-prepared and ready for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer-BioNtech company, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said on Wednesday.
More than 200 lawmakers from the House of Representatives have expressed support for the PHP420-billion stimulus package under the Bayanihan to Arise As One Act or the Bayanihan 3 to help the economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.