NFA partners with Sipalay City to buy palay at P26/kg

The National Food Authority (NFA) in Negros Occidental has partnered with the City of Sipalay to buy palay (unhusked rice) from rice farmers in the southern Negros city for PHP26 per kilogram (kg).

In a memorandum of agreement (MOA), the city govern…

Measures up to protect public from hazardous hospital waste

The Negros Oriental provincial government is taking precautionary measures that would ensure the safety and protection of the people from hospital waste dumped at a vacant lot in this capital city, a health official said Thursday.

Dr. Liland Estacio…

Public outcry vs. UN rapporteur’s call to abolish NTF-ELCAC mounts

Enrique Manalastas, father of Jhed Tamano, took to social media to express his dismay over the scathing remark of a United Nations (UN) rapporteur for recommending the abolition of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-EL…

Add’l P500M for TUPAD program to help more calamity victims sought

Senator Francis Escudero has sought to expand the Department of Labor’s (DOLE) Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program to extend more assistance to victims of natural calamities.

Escudero proposed to carve out …