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English Situation Report on Philippines about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Flash Flood, Flood and more; published on 19 Jan 2021 by Govt. Philippines

State weather bureau PAGASA says the new low pressure area has a 50% chance of turning into a tropical depression as it triggers rains over some parts of the country.

English Situation Report on Philippines about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Flash Flood, Flood and more; published on 18 Jan 2021 by Govt. Philippines

The low pressure area (LPA) southwest of Mindanao has already dissipated but a new LPA has formed in Eastern Visayas on Tuesday morning.

ILOILO CITY, Jan. 19 (PIA) - - Four out of the nine villages identified as insurgency affected in the municipality of Calinog, Iloilo have been declared  cleared of Communist Terrorist Group (CTG). The four villages are Binolusan Pequeno, Binolusan Grande, Supanga and Guinbunyugan, as announced by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) – Iloilo during an activity held on Friday, January 15. The remaining five barangays that are either affected or threatened by insurgency ...

SunStar Governors seek to negotiate directly with vaccine makers SPAIN. A health worker prepares a vaccine for members of Madrid Emergency Service in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (AP) + January 18, 2021 THE League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) urged the national government on Monday, January 18, 2021, to allow the local government units (LGUs) to purchase vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) directly from manufacturers. ...

The chill in Baguio City continues due to the strong northeast monsoon or "amihan" with the City of Pines marking its lowest temperature of 6.3 degrees Celsius which was recorded 60 years on Monday.

Published January 18, 2021, 6:50 PM Whether rich or poor, all local government units will receive from the national government COVID-19 vaccines that will cover 70 percent of their population, with the more affluent getting the advantage of inoculating 100 percent of local population. Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19 (NTF AGAINST COVID-19 / MANILA BULLETIN) Thus, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez stressed that LGUs, mostly i...

Atty. Joey Lina In my Teleradyo program Sagot Ko ‘Yan last Sunday, I had an interesting discussion with Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., national chairman of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), and he shared some remarkable revelations of great impact to local government units. First, plans are in the offing to launch a People’s Initiative seeking to amend the 1985 Constitution that would give LGUs an additional 10 percent, or “a share of at least 50 perce...

By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published January 18, 2021 11:40am The League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) on Monday joined the call of lawmakers to allow local government units (LGUs) to directly procure COVID-19 vaccines from manufacturers. During the House Committee on Health inquiry into the governments vaccination program, Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., the LPP president, stressed the need for a "clear authority" from the national government to allow LGUs to procure C...