BOOSTER SHOTS. The first batch of frontline personnel of the Philippine Post Office receives their booster shots in the recent post office's booster vaccination drive at the Post Office Building in Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila. Another 2,500 doses will be allocated for another batch of employees and their eligible dependents on February 3. (Contributed photo) MANILA - Postmaster General Norman Fulgencio of the Philippine Post Office said some 1,000 frontline personnel received their booster shots against Covid-19 during the recent Post Office's first booster vaccination drive with the assistance of Presidential Adviser for Covid-19 Response Secretary Vince Dizon and Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso. Another 2,500 doses will be allocated for another batch of post office employees and their eligible dependents on February 3. "At the start of the year, a total of 3,500 booster shots has been allotted to post office employees and their families which is ne
MANILA - The Philippine Post Office will issue a new postage stamp on December 30 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose P. Rizal with this year's theme, "Rizal: Para sa Agham, Katotohanan at Buhay". Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was an extremely gifted student and had won literary competitions from a young age. Rizal was a multifaceted intellectual best known for his two famous novels, the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which inspired the Philippine revolution. The postage stamp will depict his life, works, and heroism and feature his inherent love and compassion for the Filipino people and the country. Rizal is also admired for possessing intellectual brilliance being a doctor, scientist, and linguist. Through his writings, he awakened the Filipinos' sense of nationalism, while his death sparked a revolution to overthrow
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(Photo from Philippine Post Office) MANILA - The Philippine Post Office will issue new postage stamps on December 30 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the martyrdom of Dr. Jose P. Rizal with this year's theme, "Rizal: Para sa Agham, Katotohanan at Buhay". Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was an extremely gifted student and had won literary competitions from a young age. Rizal was a multifaceted intellectual best known for his two famous novels, the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, which inspired the Philippine revolution. The postage stamps will depict his life, works, and heroism and feature his inherent love and compassion for the Filipino people and the country. Rizal is also admired for possessing intellectual brilliance being a doctor, scientist, and linguist. Through his writings, he awakened the Filipinos' sense of nationalism, while his deat