Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Agriculture is considering imposing a lower suggested retail price for chicken, considering the huge difference between farmgate prices and actual market prices of the commodity. During Thursday’s National Price Coordinating Council meeting, Agriculture Assistant Secretary…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
NAGA CITY, Philippines The cloud-seeding operation undertaken by the Department of Agriculture appears to have brought rains to Camarines Sur, Albay and Sorsogon provinces in Bicol. ‘It seems that the cloud-seeding operation is already bringing rains but we have to fully determine yet if it is…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines At least four sections of Edsa will be closed to traffic Friday night for the weekly concrete re-blocking operation of the Department of Public Works and Highways, the Metro Manila…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Health is ‘working on’ another round of drug price cuts before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term ends next June, according to DoH Secretary Esperanza Cabral. However, Cabral said, they were ‘not making any promises.’ The first two rounds of voluntary price reductions by some 20 local pharmaceutical companies covered over 200 types of drugs and health care…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Aytch S.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources has implemented a water management action plan in Metro Manila, which includes reduced water pressure and delivery to water-deficient areas amid the El Niño phenomenon. Secretary Horacio Ramos said about 11 percent of the total population of Metro Manila…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
LUCENA CITY, Quezon, PhilippinesUnusually hot and dry conditions have triggered a widespread forest fire atop Mount Cristobal adjacent to mystical Mount Banahaw since Saturday evening, an official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said Sunday.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
DEPUTY Presidential spokesman Gary Olivar said Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) administrator Ma.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday warned Filipinos against a syndicate based in Spain and engaged in illegal recruitment….
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesA number of Catholic church leaders, including two very prominent but retired bishops, on Saturday condemned as ‘immoral’ and ‘vulgar’ the Department of Health’s Valentine’s Day drive against the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS) by distributing free condoms to adult customers at a popular flower market in Manila.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesActing Environment Secretary Eleazar Quinto, who stirred up a furor for engineering a major reshuffle in his department, has gotten a dose of his own medicine. After a month-long stint, Quinto has been replaced by President Macapagal-Arroyo and appointed to head a presidential office in a fresh Cabinet reshuffle, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said yesterday. Quinto was tapped in January…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines–Agriculture officials have vowed to double their efforts to reverse low palay productivity in Eastern Visayas last year and to prepare for any effects of climate change on crops, particularly rice. After posting positive growth for five consecutive years, rice production in the region suddenly dropped by 6.9 percent in 2009
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesKey environment officials have asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to stop acting Environment Secretary Eleazar Quinto from pursuing his ‘massive reshuffling’ in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, saying they feared the DENR would be used as a political tool in the May elections. In an ‘urgent petition,’ the 10 officialsalmost all holding the posts of directorssaid the DENR should be shielded from partisan politics to ‘avoid the repeat of the case of former Undersecretary Jocelyn ‘Joc-joc’ Bolante.’ Bolante is a former agriculture undersecretary accused of facilitating the release of P728 million in 2004 to officials said to be favored by…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
THREE former ranking officials of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) have asked the Sandiganbayan Second Division to bar admission of government evidence in a graft case filed against them in connection with irregularities in the P9.18 billion Ninoy Aquino International Airport-International Passenger Terminal 3 (NAIA-IPT 3) project.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to deploy a team that will provide official travel papers to almost one million undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), beginning with those based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Jordan.