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Published January 4, 2021, 5:00 AM Digital payments platform provider, PayMaya, ends  pandemic year 2020 with over 28 million customers  transacting in its over 200,000 touchpoints nationwide.  However, in a country with a population of 107 million, it still has a long way to go.  Nevertheless, “This radical shift to cashless for the Philippines will only continue accelerating in 2021,” Shailesh Baidwan, PayMaya President predicted. Consumers, businesses, communities, and government agencies now use the PayMaya app and wallet. The platform also powers all kinds of enterprises for eCom...

Published December 31, 2020, 7:45 AM This year’s COVID-19 pandemic prodded the Duterte government to launch the first-of-its-kind and the biggest social amelioration initiative in the country’s history to provide financial relief to the country’s poor families who were economically displaced due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.  MANILA BULLETIN FILE All eyes were on the Department of  Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the primary government agency tasked to look after the welfare and protection of millions of low-income families in the midst of the pandemic.  Over 31 million...

SunStar Barugo at 450: Rising above the pandemic LEYTE. Barugo Mayor Ma. Rosario Avestruz (center), together with local officials, leads the town’s 450th founding anniversary on November 3, 2020. (Contributed photo) + December 30, 2020 BARUGO, a quaint town in the province of Leyte, is “adaptive and resilient” amid the challenges brought by the global health crisis. Mayor Ma. Rosario “Macel” Avestruz, the second woman to become the town’s chief executive, said that this became possible because Barugonons or the locals have “held on, unite...

  Together with the members of Task Group Face Mask, the DSWD turned over the masks to Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte in a simple ceremony on Tuesday.   DSWD Undersecretary for Inclusive and Sustainable Peace Rene Glen Paje led the delivery of 200,000 surgical face masks and 33,800 reusable face masks.   The provision of face masks under the “Libreng Mask Para sa Masa” program is pursuant to Memorandum Order 49, “Directing All Concerned Government Agencies to coordinate and pool their resources and efforts into the production and distribution of face masks.”   DSWD, as a member o...

Published December 22, 2020, 1:05 PM Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced that around 27,000 qualified displaced tourism workers in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) have been endorsed by the Department to receive the P5,000 cash aid from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The beneficiaries warmly received their documents as timely tokens for Christmas during the ceremonial awarding of the financial assistance certificates led by the tourism chief at the Wright Park Gazebo in Baguio City on Monday.  “I c...