To encourage large power consumers to invest in the electricity sector and develop the use of indigenous and renewable energy (RE) resources, Senator Win Gatchalian proposed the removal of the 100-kilowatt size limit in the installation of power generation facilities under the net metering program through Senate Bill 2219. Removing the 100-kilowatt cap will allow…
Monsoon rains that poured over the province in the past days induced the landslide that caused the soil depression in Barangay Igmasandig in Valderrama, Antique, damaging the village’s hall, houses, and other structures. This was the initial result of the investigation of a team from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) in Antique…
he Commission on Elections (Comelec) will formally launch on Tuesday a mobile application that aims to streamline the voter registration process. Commissioner Marlon Casquejo, who conceptualized the project, will lead the launching of the Comelec’s Mobile Registration Form App at the New Tagum City Hall in Davao del Norte at 1 p.m. The Mobile…
The recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Technical Advisory Groups for a 10-day facility-based quarantine for returning overseas Filipino workers and their testing for Covid-19 on the seventh day of quarantine is based on solid science, an infectious disease expert said Monday. In a social media post,…
At least 14 suspects were arrested in two buy-bust operations conducted by joint anti-drug operatives in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Sunday afternoon. Reports of the San Carlos City Police Station on Monday showed that the operations were conducted in separate areas in Barangay 5 by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency…
Presidential son and Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo “Pulong” Duterte’s office distributed over the weekend some 10 kilos of rice each to fisherfolk in the first district. In a statement from the lawmaker’s office on Monday, about 3,777 sacks of rice were given to respective presidents of the 62 fisherfolk associations in the first…
