(Philstar.com) – August 6, 2021 – 9:48am Supporting agriculture, promoting urban farming and establishing rural farm schools MANILA, Philippines — Three-term Senator, now Deputy Speaker, Loren Legarda stressed the importance of providing the necessary support for agriculture, promoting urban gardening and rural farm schools around the country to address hunger and malnutrition and to achieve
Catherine Talavera (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) has ordered Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water to suspend disconnection activities during the enhanced community quarantine or ECQ. MWSS chief regulator Patrick Lester Ty directed the water concessionaires to suspend disconnections, whether
Bebot Sison Jr., Roel Pareño (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — Two 40-foot shipping containers containing smuggled cigarettes worth P78 million and 128 master cases and 34 reams valued at P4.5 million were seized at the Port of Subic and off the coast of Zamboanga City on Wednesday. Bureau
Marc Jayson Cayabyab (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Manila city government is prepared for the strictest enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Mayor Isko Moreno said yesterday. Moreno signed Executive Order No. 20, which laid down the guidelines for the two-week hard lockdown. He said vaccinations would continue in
MANILA, Philippines — The United States underscored its rejection of China’s unlawful maritime claims in the South China Sea in line with the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal Award when Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed the East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting yesterday. US Department of State spokesperson Ned Price said Blinken spoke with EAS
Ghio Ong (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — Six members of a scam group targeting politicians, government officials and business investors have surrendered to the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), an official announced yesterday. The suspects worked for the Cerbito-Fernandez organized crime ring, which allegedly used the name
Elijah Felice Rosales (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has extended for 15 calendar days the filing of returns and payment of taxes in areas placed under two-week lockdown, which begins today. In a memorandum circular, BIR Commissioner Caesar Dulay said the agency
Artemio Dumlao (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am LA TRINIDAD, Benguet, Philippines — At least 310,600 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P62.12 million were uprooted at 15 plantations in Tinglayan, Kalinga on Tuesday and Wednesday. Anti-drug operatives discovered P16.4 million worth of marijuana plants in Barangay Loccong and P45.7 million in
Bebot Sison Jr. (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines — A local court has affirmed its ruling acquitting two Aeta farmers who were charged with violation of the Anti-Terrorism Law. In a two-page order, Olongapo Regional Trial Court Branch 97 Judge Melani Fay Tadili denied the motion for reconsideration
Alexis Romero (The Philippine Star) – August 6, 2021 – 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The government has enough funds to provide aid to people in areas under lockdown but is open to seeking a supplemental budget if the identified funding sources are insufficient, Malacañang said yesterday. The administration has set aside P13.1 billion to help