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Published May 5, 2021, 10:48 AM Correctionsl Institute fdor Women Prison officers of the Correctional Institute for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City have received their second dose of vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a statement, CIW said the officers were vaccinated last May 3 at the Hulo Elementary School. Their first dose was administered last April 5. “Although most officers were fully vaccinated, not practicing protective measures is not an excuse, and the DOH (Depa...

(Mayor Lenlen Oreta / MANILA BULLETIN) The local government warned erring owners of the facilities on Monday on the prevailing ban on resort operations. It added that Mayor Lenlen Oreta “is keeping a close watch” on them. On May 2, a private resort in Barangay Maysilo was ordered closed for accommodating more than 20 people reportedly for a baptismal event. The facility, according to the local government, is owned by a certain Dr. Ma. Theresa Cruz. The facility was also cited for supposedly...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In its latest monitoring report, OCTA said the reproduction rate in the National Capital Region (NCR) was 0.83 for the period of April 25 to May 1, with indicators showing that the reproduction number may be stabilizing between 0.8 to 0.9 “If the reproduction number holds at 0.85, the number of new cases per day in the NCR should decrease to 3,000 for May 2 to 8 and 2,800 for May 9 to 15,” the OCTA report stated Sunday, May 2. The OCTA report noted that the NCR ...

Over 5,000 new contact tracers to be hired, deployed in NCR enablePagination: false (FILE PHOTO) Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 2) — Thousands of new contact tracers will be hired and deployed in the National Capital Region starting this month, The Departments of the Interior and Local Government, Labor and Employment and the Metro Manila Development Authority signed an agreement on Saturday for the hiring, training, and deployment of some 5,754 contact tracers for three months starting...

Jullie Y. Daza Ana Patricia Non’s Maginhawa community pantry was a roaring success because it was spontaneous, simple, and exuberant. For triggering a tsunami of goodwill, a flood of charitable deeds, an earthquake of giving and sharing that morphed into a nationwide movement, she will or should be the next TOYM or TOWNS or Rotary awardee. No matter that her weeks-old brainchild has been twisted by success, with fears of the food bank generating a storm of COVID-19 superspreaders amid loose a...

Published April 29, 2021, 5:00 AM Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) hopes that its new concession agreement with west zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. will soon be released as this is “critical” in implementing projects for water security. In a statement, MWSS Chairman and Acting Administrator Reynaldo V. Velasco said he is optimistic that a new concession agreement will be reached soon by the government and Maynilad. This was nearly a month now since the ap...

Uncle Oscar is waving! The 93rd Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, will rise its stage curtains once more to honor the best in filmmaking. Originally scheduled on Feb. 28, 2021, it was moved to April 25, 2021 (April 26 in Manila). Prior, let’s look at some of the greatest, funnies

The 93 rd Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, will rise its stage curtains once more to honor the best in filmmaking. Originally scheduled on Feb. 28, 2021, it was moved to April 25, 2021 (April 26 in Manila). Prior, let’s look at some of the greatest, funniest, and unforgettable moments at the Oscars as compiled by Merciely A. Salvador and Dane Maverick G. Padel from City of Malabon University. The Streaker David Niven At the 1974 Academy Awards, while David Niven was about to int...

Published April 25, 2021, 1:56 PM Vice President Leni Robredo said that her supporters gave away more than 30,000 bowls of lugaw (rice porridge) during her birthday last Friday, April 23. Her supporters called the “National Lugaw Day” in reference to trolls calling her “Lugaw Queen” because her supporters sold porridge to support her vice presidential campaign in 2016. Speaking on her weekly radio show, Robredo said she appreciated the gestures by her supporters because the lugaw feedin...

MANILA: It began with a small bamboo cart that Patricia Non set up in a quiet corner of Maginhawa Street in Quezon City two weeks ago. Non’s mobile “Maginhawa food pantry” includes free food items and essential supplies with signage on the cart reminding Filipinos to “give what you can and take only what you need.” Soon after launching the initiative on April 14, 26-year-old Non said in a Facebook post that her main goal for setting up the pantry was “to assist those reeling from th...