Philippines 11 Apr 2021
A devotee holds a image of Black Nazarene while attending outside of the Quiapo Church in Manila. Only 6,000 people or 400 person per mass are allowed inside the church on the day of the Feast of the Black Nazarene to maintain the health protocols during COVID19 pandemic.- INQUIRER
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Despite warnings to devotees by health authorities to steer clear of Quiapo Church in Manila on Saturday (Jan 9), the Feast of the Black Nazarene, to avert a widespread transmission of the new coronavirus, church officials are worried that many will still show up for the country’s largest religious event.
Philippine government agencies were able to continue the delivery of safe and efficient public service in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic with the help of PayMaya’s cashless platforms. - PDI
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the Philippine government’s digital transformation, with PayMaya leading the charge in enabling national agencies and local government units (LGUs) to accept all kinds of cashless payments and disburse financial aid anytime, anywhere.
Over 60 government agencies and units at both national and local levels – including the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Social Security System (SSS), Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-IBIG, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Land Transportation Office (LTO), Bureau of Customs (BoC), and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) – have chosen PayMaya’s platform to provide citizens and businesses with a safer and better way to
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Amid the sustained reliance on domestic borrowings to fight Covid-19, the national government’s debt stock climbed to a new high of P10.13 trillion as of November last year.
The latest Bureau of the Treasury data released on Wednesday (Jan 6) showed that the end-November outstanding obligations inched up 1.1 per cent from P10.03 trillion in October and jumped by a faster 31.4 per cent from P7.71 trillion in November 2019.
Locally sourced debt, which accounted for 71 per cent of the total, increased by 1.6 per cent month-on-month and 40.6 per cent year-on-year to P7.19 trillion.
In a statement, the Treasury attributed the month-on-month rise in domestic debt to the net issuance of government securities such as treasury bills and bonds.