Thursday, 10 September 2026

Cebu gov: No permit for structures within road easements

CEBU CITY: The provincial government will no longer allow structures to be constructed within the designed easements of national, provincial, city, and municipal roads.

Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said Thursday she ordered the strict implementation of …

SolGen asks Tarlac RTC to cancel Guo’s birth certificate

MANILA: Government lawyers on Friday formally asked the court to cancel the birth certificate of suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo.

In a message to reporters, Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said the petition filed before the Tarlac Regiona…

DBM releases P27B for health workers’ emergency allowance

MANILA: Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman on Friday approved the PHP27.453-billion Special Allotment Release Order (SARO) for the health emergency allowance (HEA) of medical workers.

In a statement, Pangandaman sa…

Inflation eases to 3.7% in June

MANILA: The country’s headline inflation decelerated to 3.7 percent in June from 3.9 percent in May due to the easing of energy and transport costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

In a press briefing on Friday, PSA Undersecretary and…

PBBM: P27-B agri infra projects to be built in N. Mindanao

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Friday said the government plans to build over 400 infrastructure projects worth PHP27 billion in Northern Mindanao to boost the agricultural productivity in the region.

During the distribution of land tit…

BuCor releases 14.6K PDLs in past 2 years

MANILA: The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has released 562 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in June, bringing to 14,657 the total number of PDLs released in the past two years as part of the bureau’s ‘Bilis Laya’ Program.

In his report to Justice S…

House directed to probe criminal activities linked to POGOs

MANILA: Speaker Martin Romualdez on Friday ordered a congressional probe into the reported criminal activities linked with illegitimate Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs).

In a statement, Romualdez said the House probe will look into variou…