The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is still in the process of studying the recommendation of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to
(File photo) MANILA - The move to import around 450,000 metric tons of sugar by the Department of Agriculture (DA) is aimed at managing inflation and building a buffer stock that will adequately meet the country's sugar requirements, a senior Agriculture official said on Wednesday. In a press briefing at Malacanan Palace, DA Senior Undersecretary Domingo Panganiban said they acted on the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to immediately address inflation due to supply issues. "In response to the directive of the President to address inflation and create a buffer stock and given that sugar as one of the components of most commodities that drives the consistently high inflation rate, I acted with haste and interpreted the memorandum issued by the Office of the Executive Secretary as an approval to proceed with the importation," Panganiban told the members of the Malacanang Press Corps. "With the urgency of the situation, I instructed three capable and accre
The late former President Fidel V. Ramos. (Contributed photo) MANILA - His charisma and accessibility to members of the media as a devoted public servant for nearly half a century made the late former President Fidel V. Ramos a "Darling of the Press". Ramos, who was popularly called FVR after his initials, or "Steady Eddie" by his peers in the military and police because of his calmness in handling difficult security matters, died last July 31 at the ripe age of 94. Journalists who had covered FVR when he was still in the active military service, in the defense department, and later as the 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines, visited his wake at the Heritage Chapel in Taguig City last Friday where they paid tribute to his many accomplishments in nation building that lifted the country from the quagmire of serious economic and security problems through his bold decisions. They also offered prayers for the eternal repose of his soul. It was during the wa
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Photo from Malacanang Press briefing held May 20
QUEZON CITY, May 21 (PIA) President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has ordered that indigent population be prioritized for Pfizer vaccines.
In a virtual press briefing held May 20, Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque, Jr. said the President specifically ordered to give the Pfizer vaccines to the poor or the indigent population citing that it is part of the policy agreed with the COVAX facility.
Roque said the President instructed as well to distribute the Pfizer vaccines not in shopping malls but instead in Barangay vaccination sites with low vaccine take-up. This instruction is part of the initial directive of the President that all Filipinos will be vaccinated for free and no one will be left behind.