The government’s inter-agency management group asks the local government to stop collecting fees from visitors using the bridge. PNA

Boracay rehab group halts pontoon fee collection

The Boracay Inter-Agency Rehabilitation Management Group (BIARMG) has asked the mayor of Aklan’s Malay town to stop the collection of pontoon (floating bridges) payment from Boracay tourists. BIARMG chief...

Fuel price rollback set tomorrow

Rollback in the prices of petroleum products will take effect at 6 a.m. tomorrow, Jan. 14, 2020, amid big time oil price hike worry...
Tourism secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Transportation secretary Arthur Tugade sign iLiPAD or the “Institutionalized Leveraging of Infrastructure Program for Airport Development.” PNA

DOT-DOTr tandem revs up for airports upgrade

THE Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Transportation (DOTr) are working on a P1-billion funding to be used for upgrading airports with night-rating capabilities. During...
PH foreign secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. and Japanese foreign minister Motegi Toshimitsu sign diplomatic notes on the Metro Manila Priority Bridges Seismic Improvement Project involving the Lambingan and Guadalupe bridges. Mike Navallo

Japan hikes loan aid to fortify 2 PH bridges

MANILA – Filipino and Japanese officials on Thursday exchanged diplomatic notes to enable Japanese loan support for the strengthening of two bridges in the Philippine capital...

2019 availments in BSP’s peso rediscount facility rise

MANILA – Availments under the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) peso rediscount facility rose to P122.167 billion by end-December 2019 from P71.524 million in the previous...
TOXIC MESS The pile of mostly plastic trash stored at the Phividec Industrial Authority compound in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, awaiting reshipment to South Korea. PHOTO COURTESY OF JIGGER J. JERUSALEM

Groups laud return of waste imports to S. Korea

Environment watchdogs on Saturday welcomed the announcement of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) that the remaining garbage from South Korea now stored in a facility in...

Antique identified as advance implementer of health care law

ANTIQUE province is in the initial transition phase as one of the 23 provinces in the country identified as Advance Implementation Site (AIS) under Republic Act...
These pork products sold at the public Market of Sibalom town in Antique are still safe to eat. The Provincial Veterinarians Office assured that the province is still free of African swine fever. PNA

Luzon pork products arriving in NegOcc confiscated

THE Provincial African Swine Fever (ASF) Task Force of Negros Occidental, through the personnel of the Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO), continues to seize pork and pork-based...

PH lifts Japanese food import restriction

MANILA– Philippine foreign secretary Teodoro Locsin said Thursday the country has lifted restrictions on Japanese food imports imposed following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster due to...

NO MORE ORPHANS PRE-LAUNCH Championing the Nation’s Fatherless

By: Thomas Arnold Vallejo ILOILO CITY – Pastor Mark Cabag spearheaded the pre-launch of No More Orphans last Jan. 5, 2020 at The Box Function...