A lawmaker on Thursday suggested allowing the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card of the government’s food stamp program (FSP) to be usable at point-of-sale at supermarkets, grocery stores, and drugstores with electronic card readers. Manila Rep. J…
Every coastal local government unit (LGU) shall have its community-based volunteer group, trained by the national government and non-government organizations if a measure filed by Senator Jinggoy Estrada is passed into law. Estrada said Senate Bill 24…
The City of Victorias in Negros Occidental has received a grant of PHP1.5 million from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to establish the ‘Victorias Sidlak Artists’ Park.’
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on Thursday cited outstanding micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Region 3 (Central Luzon) that were assisted under its Small Enterprises Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP). SETUP, one of th…
Rice farmers in Nueva Ecija attained higher palay harvests this wet season which can mainly be attributed to the government’s various agricultural interventions. Fernando Salvador, chairman of the Binabuyan Farmers Association in Barangay Pinili, San …
Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday said state lawyers would continue preparing to defend the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) law before the Supreme Court (SC), despite President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s order to suspend its implementatio…
