PSA apologizes for tech issues on Day 1 of national ID registration
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Philippine Statistics Authority’s Philippine Identification System on Friday encountered technical difficulties on the first day of online national ID registration.
In a statement on Friday, the PSA said that the influx of registrants during the pilot launched caused the technical difficulties.
“We received more than 40,000 registration requests during the first minutes of the pilot launch. This caused delays in the sending of the one-time passwords (OTPs) necessary to proceed with the registration,” the agency said.
“We are urgently looking into the issue and updating the website to resolve this technical challenge,” it added.
SunStar Fair offers close to 2,000 jobs
‘NEW NORMAL’. Before the pandemic, job seekers in Cebu would gather in places like the Cebu City Sports Center (in foto) each Labor Day to find available work opportunities offered in job fairs organized by the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) and local government units. With quarantine measures now in place to prevent the further spread of Covid-19, jobseekers go online as Dole 7 and a local website hold a virtual job fair for interested applicants. (SunStar file)
+ April 30, 2021 MORE than 1,700 job vacancies await jobseekers in the region as the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole 7) in partnership with Filipino-owned job website Mynimo holds a virtual jobs fair to commemorate Labor Day on May 1, 2021.
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+ April 30, 2021 MEMBERS of the Nagkaisa Labor Coalition will call for the resignation of President Duterte on Labor Day, May 1, 2021, just over a year before his term ends in 2022. The previous hope the workers saw in Duterte has resulted (in) a half a decade of failure, which has never been clearer than during this pandemic. We are no longer seeing that changes can still happen in his remaining months in Malacañang, the coalition said in a statement.
The group said around 20 million workers were affected by the protracted lockdowns, either through mass layoff, retrenchment, extended floating status and flexible work arrangements.
BusinessWorld
April 30, 2021 | 6:10 pm
EMME ROSE SANTIAGUDO
THE VALUE of agricultural trade dropped by 7.1% year on year to $18.78 billion in 2020 as both exports and imports declined, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.
The PSA said agricultural exports declined by 7.1% to $6.20 billion in 2020. These products made up 9.5% of the country’s total outbound shipments last year.
Edible fruits and nuts and peel of citrus fruit melons, which accounted for the largest share or 37.5% of the total exports, were valued at $2.32 billion.
Meanwhile, exports of animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products were worth $32 million; preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs, and other aquatic invertebrates were valued at $231.49 million; and preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants were at $142.40 million.
BusinessWorld
April 30, 2021 | 6:52 pm
Photo by Michael Varcas, The Philippine Star
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said inflation likely breached the upper-end of its annual target for a fourth straight month in April due to higher electricity rates and food prices.
Inflation during the month likely reached between 4.2% to 5%, BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno told reporters in a Viber message. This is above the 2-4% target of the central bank.
He said the BSP’s point inflation forecast for April is at 4.6%, which, if realized, will be faster than the 4.5% in March and the 2.2% a year earlier.
The April inflation data will be released by the Philippine Statistics Authority on May 5.