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(PNA photo by Gil Calinga) LEGAZPI CITY - The Department of Education in the Bicol region has come up with a three-year learning scheme to help students catch up after two years of disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic. The region's learning recovery plan (LRP) was presented during the launch of Brigada Eskwela at the Don Servillano Platon Memorial National High School in Sta. Cruz, Tinambac town, Camarines Sur. The goal is to not only to bring learners back to school but to organize effective remedial learning, support their well-being and train teachers, as classes for the school ye...

COFFEE TIME. Members of a family beneficiary of the "Balik Probinsya" program drink coffee as they wait for the send-off procedure and departure at Multi-purpose court 2, BP2 Depot, Quezon City on May 5, 2022. The government pushes for reintegration interventions for beneficiaries of the BP2 once sent back to their respective home provinces. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler) MANILA - The government pushes for reintegration interventions for beneficiaries of the "Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-Asa" (BP2) program once sent back to their respective home provinces. The BP2 p...

MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and election watchdog Democracy Watch Philippines are set to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on Friday to promote voter education among Filipino youths and first-time voters in the May 9 polls. Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez, in a statement Thursday, said the agreement will pave the way to the voter education campaign called Vote Right 2022! -- a series of seminars and lectures to be conducted in partnership with various schools, universities, and non-government organizations nationwide using virtual platforms. "We recognize that edu...

CASH ASSISTANCE. The Department of Agriculture - Zamboanga Peninsula (DA-9) rolls out its two-day cash assistance to farmers in Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay province that will end Thursday (Jan. 27, 2022) The cash aid, implemented through DA's Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmer Financial assistance program, was released to assist eligible rice farmers affected by the implementation of the Rice Tarrification Law. (Photo courtesy of DA-9) ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Department of Agriculture (DA), through its Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund-Rice Farmer Financial Assistance (RCEF...

(Contributed image) MANILA - Anti-communist group, Liga Independencia Pilipinas (LIPI), believes that "scrapping" the bill institutionalizing the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP)-Department of National Defense (DND) accord into the UP Charter, will protect campuses from infiltration of communist terrorist groups (CTGs). LIPI national chairperson Jose Antonio Goitia, in a statement Thursday, defended the DND's earlier decision to abrogate its agreement with UP, saying "it would end the underground mass recruitment of the communist groups inside campuses." "We...