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Published January 4, 2021, 5:00 AM Digital payments platform provider, PayMaya, ends  pandemic year 2020 with over 28 million customers  transacting in its over 200,000 touchpoints nationwide.  However, in a country with a population of 107 million, it still has a long way to go.  Nevertheless, “This radical shift to cashless for the Philippines will only continue accelerating in 2021,” Shailesh Baidwan, PayMaya President predicted. Consumers, businesses, communities, and government age...

Published December 31, 2020, 7:45 AM This year’s COVID-19 pandemic prodded the Duterte government to launch the first-of-its-kind and the biggest social amelioration initiative in the country’s history to provide financial relief to the country’s poor families who were economically displaced due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.  MANILA BULLETIN FILE All eyes were on the Department of  Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the primary government agency tasked to look after the welfa...

SunStar Barugo at 450: Rising above the pandemic LEYTE. Barugo Mayor Ma. Rosario Avestruz (center), together with local officials, leads the town’s 450th founding anniversary on November 3, 2020. (Contributed photo) + December 30, 2020 BARUGO, a quaint town in the province of Leyte, is “adaptive and resilient” amid the challenges brought by the global health crisis. Mayor Ma. Rosario “Macel” Avestruz, the second woman to become the town’s chi...

  Together with the members of Task Group Face Mask, the DSWD turned over the masks to Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte in a simple ceremony on Tuesday.   DSWD Undersecretary for Inclusive and Sustainable Peace Rene Glen Paje led the delivery of 200,000 surgical face masks and 33,800 reusable face masks.   The provision of face masks under the “Libreng Mask Para sa Masa” program is pursuant to Memorandum Order 49, “Directing All Concerned Government Agencies to coordinate and pool their...

Published December 22, 2020, 1:05 PM Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced that around 27,000 qualified displaced tourism workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) have been endorsed by the Department to receive the P5,000 cash aid from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The beneficiaries warmly received their documents as timely tokens for Christmas during the ceremonial awarding of the financial assistanc...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) made this clarification in a statement late Sunday afternoon amid the surge of social media posts regarding the supposed implementation of a third round or tranche of SAP. “There is an ongoing payout for the Emergency Subsidy Program (ESP) which is a provision of Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2,” DSWD Social Marketing Service Director Irene Dumlao said. However, she noted that the ESP payout ...

Published December 19, 2020, 7:33 PM An anti-corruption group has asked the House of Representatives to impose disciplinary sanctions against two former officials of the chamber for allegedly using their position in “harassing and intimidating” local politicians through the conduct of congressional inquiries. In a three-page complaint filed Thursday, Dec. 17, before the House Committee on Ethics, the Crimes and Corruption Watch Inc. (CCWI) accused Reps. Luis Raymund “Lray” Villafuerte (...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signs into law the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2) during a ceremony at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang on September 11, 2020. KING RODRIGUEZ/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has approved PHP3.52 billion in additional funding to register 20 million more individuals in the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) by the end of 2021, Malacañang said Wednesday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the 20 million more ...

1 of 4 PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao. PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao. PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao. By Reporter REYNALDO L. ANGARA, 70, a barangay chairm...

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) (MANILA BULLETIN) Over 142,000 low-income families have received their entitled emergency subsidies,  worth more than P931 million,  the DSWD said.  “As of Dec. 17, there are 142,058 beneficiaries who received their emergency subsidy under Bayanihan 2,” it said in a statement.  Of the number,  11,480 recipients are from areas under granular lockdown, while 130,578 are additional beneficiaries or those who did not receive Social Amel...