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The Philippine government’s running debt stock would have ballooned to P15.4 trillion by the end of this year had the Duterte administration yielded to proposals such as spending more on pandemic relief and suspending the fuel excise tax, according to the Department of Finance (DOF).

From the monitoring of the Department of Energy (DOE), the world price of imported diesel averages at $166 per barrel from the previous $149, or the price went up by as much as $17.

The Department of Finance (DOF) estimated that the national government’s debt could have been P2.2 trillion more had President Duterte supported the revenue-eroding proposals in Congress at the height of the pandemic. In a statement, Finance Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said that total debt wo

MANILA-The House of Representatives has approved about 1,600 measures on the third reading since the start of the 18th Congress, Majority Leader Martin Romualdez said on Wednesday. During his speech before the sine die adjournment, Romualdez commended his fellow legislators and House employees who worked "beyond the call of duty in order to make the 18th Congress one of the most productive ever," especially amid the pandemic. He said out of the 1,600 bills, more than 300 had been enact...

GALLERY HOP FUN: The artists of the Winston-Salem “Downtown Arts District Association” will present “Across the Universe Hop” for the DADA First Friday Gallery Hop series from 7 p.m. to

Formerly known as Winterlark and typically held in February, this year’s SummerLark is underway with a fundraising campaign and will end with a June 4 concert in Bailey Park, featuring

Sawtooth School for Visual Art will open a new exhibition called "bag(s) of sand" on May 25 in the Main Gallery at Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.

ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth High School recently announced the names of the valedictorian and salutatorian for the EHS graduating class of 2022. Alicia Havey,

While a 2013 Supreme Court decision ruled that the party-list system is no longer exclusive to marginalized and underrepresented sectors, many party-lists still run under a platform of representing various marginalized sectors.

Many state and federal statutes provide that when property is used in certain prohibited ways, ownership of the property passes to the government. Often, the statutes allow these forfeitures to be declared in civil proceedings against the property itself, without the normal safeguards of the criminal process. Indeed, if no one claims the property after proper notice, the government’s assertion of ownership can become incontestable without any judicial proceedings at all. Statutes authori...