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Sec. Bernadette Romulo Puyat during her dialogue with the Siquijor LGU officials and tourism stakeholders. (rac/PIA7-Siquijor) SIQUIJOR, March 3 (PIA) -- As Siquijor province sets to reopen its tourism this month, Department of Tourism Sec. Bernadette Romulo-Puyat pitched her full support to the Governor’s drive to restore business and bring back employment to the tourism sector. During her dialogue with the local government units (LGUs) and the tourism stakeholders here, Puyat lauded Gov. Za...

First Friday in Bethelehem features Shamrock & Roll; IronPigs host, Pig Day; a storycircles workshop, Palisades' ‘High School Musical’ and 'Amish Outlaws’

Seniority favors Bernabe to become next chief justice, but will Duterte honor it? Senior Associate Justice Estela Perlas Bernabe retires on May 15, 2022. If she becomes chief justice, President Rodrigo Duterte may still appoint her successor. But it’s an election year and he will want an ally leading the court. BY CARMELA FONBUENA AND STANLEY BUENAFE GAJETE March 5, 2021 | 09:00:00 PM Senior Asso...

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday, March 4, said he is mulling filing a bill that would provide free laptop and Internet allowance to every Filipino student in the country.

BusinessWorld March 4, 2021 | 8:03 pm THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) projected collections of P3.92 billion from Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) in 2021, based on the industry’s weak tax yield in January. BIR Deputy Commissioner Arnel SD. Guballa said January collections from the embattled industry, which has been exiting the Philippines, amounted to P372 million, down 68.63% from a year earlier. “The total projection for POGO revenues for taxable year 202...

Senators on Thursday pushed for the passage of the bill seeking to tax Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) to help the government generate revenues and fund its major programs, particularly on health and education, badly needed this time of a COVID-19 pandemic.

Private inspection centers seek revision of vehicle checking program VEHICLE inspection center owners are proposing a revised private motor vehicle inspection program to President Rodrigo R. Duterte, as daily inspections have drastically declined from 100 to five. “Even with the price drop, there has been a drastic decline in the number of clients undergoing inspection in our centers,” the Vehicle Inspection Centers Owners Association of the Philippines said in a petition letter to the Pres...

Reporter PHILIPPINE BANKS appear better positioned to weather the surge in soured loans than Southeast Asian peers, but sluggish economic growth could dampen the sector’s recovery this year,   S&P Global Ratings said. “We have a negative outlook on the Philippine banking sector, that means there is a one-third chance that the rating can be downgraded in 1.5 to two years, so clearly that there are risks,” Ivan Tan, director at the financial institutions ratings of S&P, told a webinar on W...

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has distributed more than P27.1 million in cash subsidy to over 6,000 public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers across the country through its Service Contracting Program.

The Philippines—the only remaining country in the ASEAN region without coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines—is now awaiting the scheduled arrival of the first batch of 600,000 doses of  Sinovac from China.