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MANILA - Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo, House Committee on Energy chairman, on Monday said the proposed amendments to the Oil Deregulation Law will ensure fair and transparent pricing of fuel products amid the global supply crunch. In the committee report, Arroyo said a task force composed of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) shall be created to investigate any unreasonable increase in the prices of petroleum products. Arroyo said this is among the strong anti-trust safeguards in the measure to ensure fair competition and prevent cartels and mono...

(Photo grabbed from DOH-13 FB Page.) BUTUAN CITY - At least 1,334,468 residents in the region are now fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Department of Health in Caraga (DOH-13) reported Tuesday. "The total number of fully vaccinated individuals represents 59.39 percent of the total target population for vaccination in the region," stated the DOH-13. Data provided by DOH-13 also indicated that 2,711,558 Covid-19 vaccines were administered in the region of which 102,200 individuals were inoculated with booster shots as of February 13. The A4 category (fro...

Of action and chain of command ready to be activated as soon as a new variant is detected. as well as enough supplies and train personnel to operate. so why does his department seem to be continually surprised by the arrival of variance and instead of a smooth running plan, we have chaos and panic? well. plan, we have chaos and panic? well, mr speaker. — plan, we have chaos and panic? well, mr speaker, there _ plan, we have chaos and panic? well, mr speaker, there are _ plan, we have chaos and panic? 711 mr speaker, there are going to be variants of covid—19, as he says, for many years and...

(File photo) MANILA - Over 900,000 new voters who registered for next year's elections are 18 years old, an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Tuesday. Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said there are 958,730 voters who just reached the legal age signed up to become voters during the registration period to be able to participate in next year's polls. Of the figure, she said there are more females who registered as compared to male registrants. "18 years old registered voters: 958,730 Male: 449,019, Female: 509,711," she said in her Twitter account, @rowena_gu...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (Presidential photo by Alberto Alcain) MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte emphasized the need to ramp up the vaccination rate in various local government units (LGUs) to meet the country's target to fully vaccinate at least 50 million Filipinos to achieve population protection by December this year. "We cannot reach this target if we will plateau at 400 or 500 [thousand] daily jabs," Duterte said in his regular Talk to the People aired on Monday night. Duterte said a non-stop vaccination program at the local levels can greatly contribute to expeditin...