Thursday, 10 September 2026

53K ‘vulnerable’ Manila residents to get monthly cash aid

MANILA: Some 53,000 members of the vulnerable sector in Manila are set to get their monthly allowances under the social amelioration program (SAP) of the city government this month.

In a statement Thursday, Mayor Honey Lacuna said the city’s Departme…

July 2024 is National Census, CBMS Month

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has declared July 2024 as ‘National Census and Community-based Monitoring System (CBMS) Month.”

The issuance is in support to the 2024 census of population and CBMS (POPCEN-CBMS) from July to September 2024.

Red tide detected in Samar’s Cambatutay Bay

TACLOBAN CITY: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) confirmed Thursday the presence of red tide toxins in Cambatutay Bay in Tarangnan, Samar based on the latest examination of water samples.

Seawater samples collected in Cambatutay Ba…

24 gov’t agencies now connected thru eGovPH app

MANILA: The mobile application (app) eGovPH now offers online services for 24 different Philippine government agencies, with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) aiming to streamline all government services through the ap…

Comelec: BARMM voter education micro summits set in Sept.

MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to hold voter education summits in September as part of its massive information campaign for the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in May 2…

Nearly P10B allotted for PH rural dev’t plan in Calabarzon

MANILA: The government has set aside nearly PHP10 billion for the Philippine Rural Development Plan (PRDP) in Calabarzon (Region 4-A) to stimulate economic development in the area, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Thursday.

During the distri…