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Recently, the Perry County Central High School Commodore Players have been practicing their final full performance of the school year. The performance, “The Outsiders,” will be PCCHS Drama Teacher Phil

COLD STORAGE FACILITY. Department of Agriculture Executive Regional Director Crispulo G. Bautista Jr. delivers his message during the turnover ceremony of a PHP20-million onion cold storage facility to the Sapang Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Barangay Ablang Sapang, Moncada, Tarlac on Wednesday (March 16, 2022). The facility can store 10,000 bags of dry bulb onions and prolong their shelf life for six to eight months. (Photo courtesy of DA-3) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - Onion farmers in Bara...

Department of Agriculture turns over onion cold storage facility to Tarlac farmers

MANILA - Small Business Corp. (SBCorp), the financing arm of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), released a total of PHP5.9 billion as of end-February to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), its president and chief executive officer Luna Cacanando said in a statement. This is part of the PHP8.08 billion disbursed to SBCorp for the rollout of the zero-interest loan Covid-19 Assistance to Restart Enterprises (CARES) program. The program is part of the Bayanihan to Recover as One A...

Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte (File photo) MANILA - A lawmaker on Friday called on Congress to look into the Commission on Audit's (COA) discovery that PHP4.99 billion, or over half of the funds allocated for loan distribution to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2), was never used by the intended beneficiaries. Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte said Congress should get to the bottom of the COA report tha...

(File photo) MANILA- A lawmaker on Friday urged economic managers to seriously consider expanding the various subsidy programs for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to help them recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Marikina City Rep. Stella Quimbo said programs such as the Department of Trade and Industry's Livelihood Seeding Program - Negosyo Serbisyo Sa Barangay (LSP-NSB) could help get small businesses restarted, and for them to eventually muster "enough co...

4.5 billion pesos in collateral-free COVID recovery loan unutilised: state auditors

The Small Business Corporation (SBCorp) said funds for lending to multi-sectoral micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have been fully utilized as of the end of 2021. SBCORP LOGO SBCorp, the government’s micro financing arm under the Department

Partido Reporma standard-bearer Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson (File photo) MANILA - Partido Reporma standard-bearer Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Wednesday said he is willing to attend a special session of Congress if called by President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss the possible declaration of a state of economic emergency amid the unabated spike in oil prices. "It is okay with me so that the government will have the needed flexibility to deal with this scourge of fuel ...

AMID the weekly increases in oil prices, members of the House of Representatives on Monday recommended to the Palace the declaration of a state of economic emergency arising from fuel price crisis. In a news conference following a special hearing of the Fuel Crisis Ad Hoc Committee, Albay Rep. Joey…