Page 10 - Concerned Doctors News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Atty. Joey Lina Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the worsening public health crisis has intensified the desperation felt by many Filipinos. Thus, leaders of the country’s top business and industry groups, including doctors’ and other professional organizations, have issued a frantic appeal to President Rodrigo Duterte and Congress leaders to make accessible the drug Ivermectin that is highly touted to be effective against the coronavirus. In a letter signed on March 31, 2021, the multi-sectoral leaders pleaded with President Duterte, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, and...

BusinessWorld January 11, 2021 | 6:01 pm By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr. The new budget law or General Appropriations Act (GAA) 2021 was signed by President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Dec. 28, 2020. Due to space constraints, I will not include items and agencies with spending below P20 billion. For comparison I include spending and revenues in the last two years, and also those in 2016, the last budget of the previous Aquino administration. Data comes from the Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing (BESF). Here are some revelations: 1. Big rise in spending… From 2019 to 2020...