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MANILA - The PHP5.268 trillion national budget for 2023 contains allocations that will help protect the Philippine economy from the "negative" impact of internal and external shocks, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said on Wednesday. The DBM issued the statement a day after the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country's headline inflation rate in January climbed to 8.7 percent from 8.1 percent in December 2022. The budget department said this ye...

Davao City Rep. Paolo “Pulong” Duterte on Monday, Oct. 3, lamented that some individuals are posing as Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged and Displaced Workers (TUPAD) beneficiaries to receive a payout from the government. REP. Duterte "It has occurred to me that people are using th

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - A total of 55,784 qualified job seekers in Central Luzon have found local or overseas employment in the first six months of the year through the various programs offered by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in partnership with the Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs) in the region. The figure marked a 93 percent placement rate out of the 59,983 applicants for local and overseas employment. In spite of this achievement, DOLE-3 Regional Director G...

Senator Joel Villanueva today July 4 filed the first 20 of his priority bills for the 19th Congress to continue his advocacy and fulfill his campaign promises of job creation and security. “For our second term, our job in the Senate is still jobs. We are pushing for job opportunities and job securi

PRIMING FOR F2F CLASSES. Mayor Joseph Evangelista discusses on Tuesday (Feb. 22, 2022) with City Schools Division Superintendent Natividad Ocon (left) the opening of 27 public schools in the city for limited in-person classes starting March 1. The city government has released a PHP5.3-million fund subsidy from its Special Education Fund (SEF) for the schools' acquisition of essential materials and equipment needed for the operation. (Photo courtesy of Kidapawan CIO) KIDAPAWAN CITY - Twenty-s...

Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III sent today, Thursday, Dec. 23, the Congress-approved P5.024 trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for 2022 to President Duterte. The President is expected to sign the GAB, or national budget, on Dec. 28. This followed the recent ratification by the Senate

The Senate on Wednesday ratified the reconciled version of the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed P5.024-trillion national budet for 2022. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, assured that next year’s budget, which would be submitted to President Dut

Mounting complaints on salary delays have been raised by contact tracers who were hired by the government to help identify and locate those who have close contacts with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-infected persons. But Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jonatha

The P10-billion additional budget that the House of Representatives granted the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) underscores the chamber’s full trust and confidence in the ability of DOLE officials to effectively address the urgent needs of millions of displaced Filipino workers. Sec

House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco (File photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives is targeting to transmit its approved version of the 2022 General Appropriations Bill to the Senate on or before October 27 to give senators ample time to examine the government's spending plan for next year, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said on Friday. In a statement, Velasco said the House-approved version of the proposed 2022 national budget contained institutional amendments designed to help boost the gover...