ILOILO CITY — The Iloilo Dinagyang Festival is sure to take center stage in international events this year. This rosy prospect for Dinagyang was announced by Allan Ryan Tan, president of the Iloilo Festival Foundation Inc., during the opening of the Tribes Competition of the world-renowned festival on January 26 at the Iloilo Freedom Grandstand….
The government reported substantial sales following President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s launch of the “Kadiwa ng Pangulo” in Cebu City aimed at providing consumers with fresh and affordable products and providing ready market to farmers and producers. Kadiwa organizers reported a total sales of P931,329.66 in the two-day Kadiwa ng Pangulo in Cebu—P412,799.30 on February…
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board, chaired by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., approved during its 10th meeting high-impact programs and projects amounting to approximately Pph269.7 billion, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan announced on Friday. “With these approved projects, the Marcos administration reaffirms its commitment to aggressively advance infrastructure development to attain…
LEGAZPI CITY – The “Tarabangan Caravan” of Ako Bicol (AKB) Party-List slated this year which will offer a series of medical-dental missions is expected to benefit some 13,000 residents of the six provinces of the Bicol Region.. AKB media relations officer Sally Luces said the caravan is part of the priority programs of AKB and President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to help…
The Department of Science & Technology Ilocos Region (DOST Ilocos Region), through its Smart Agriculture for Resilient Agriculture-based Innovations (SARAI) unit, continues to strengthen the foundation for data-driven agricultural development through a series of Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) and planning workshops conducted with partner local government units (LGUs) across the region. The workshops were held…
BATANGAS CITY, Batangas — Nineteen district, city, and municipal jails under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Mimaropa participated in the 3rd Quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) 2025, a nationwide exercise designed to boost disaster preparedness among jail personnel and Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs). The drill started with the ceremonial…
The administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is exhausting legal remedies for the possibility of shortening the number of days given to importers to prove the legitimacy of their importation. In his speech during the distribution of rice in General Trias Cavite on Friday, President Marcos said they are studying to shorten the 15-day…
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. remains hopeful that the prices of basic commodities in the market will start to decrease amid the measures the government has implemented against price hikes. In an interview during the rice distribution in Iriga City, Camarines Sur on Saturday, President Marcos believes that the government’s intervention against price hikes will…
MANILA — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is closely monitoring the condition of the Filipinos amid the ongoing wildfire in Hawaii with the help of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). In his official X account, President Marcos said that the government, through the DFA and the DMW,…
Many species in land and water living in the ecosystems in Mindanao remain to be discovered and protected by future generations. This was the call of Filipino researchers and scientists as they presented different flora and fauna in land and water that are endemic in Mindanao’s environs as part of the National Science and Technology…
