15MW energy project to help Baguio City on waste management

BAGUIO CITY: A PHP3 billion (USD55 million) 15-megawatt (MW) waste-to-energy project in Sablan, Benguet aims to help this city lower waste management cost.

In a briefing here Wednesday night, Robert John Sobrepeña, board chair of publicly listed Metr…

Padlocked NFA rice warehouses to reopen amid harvest season

MANILA: The Department of Agriculture (DA) assured the reopening of temporarily closed rice warehouses, following the preventive suspension of 141 officials and employees of the National Food Authority (NFA).

In a statement, Agriculture Secretary Fra…

P30-M hatchery to increase aquaculture production in Camarines Sur

LEGAZPI CITY: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Bicol (BFAR-5) is optimistic that the construction of the PHP30 million multi-species freshwater hatchery in Camarines Sur will increase the local production of fish and create more opport…

Negros Occidental sets monthly ‘Kadiwa ng Pangulo’ markets

BACOLOD CITY: Negros Occidental’s provincial government and partner-national government agencies have set monthly ‘Kadiwa ng Pangulo’ (KNP) markets from March to June this year.

The list of schedules on Thursday showed the next Kadiwa will be held at…

PBBM, First Lady still with flu-like symptoms but improving: Palace

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos are still experiencing flu-like symptoms but have already shown improvements, Malacañang said Thursday.

In a statement, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said the…

Bacolod to host ROTC Games-Visayas qualifiers in May

BACOLOD CITY: This city will host some 1,000 student-athletes for the 2024 Philippine Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) Games (PRG) Visayas qualifying leg on May 26 to June 1.

Department of National Defense Assistant Henry Robinson Jr. visited …

PSC chief cites role of women athletes in sports development

MANILA: Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairperson Richard Bachmann cited the important role of women athletes in sports development during the inaugural Women in Sports (WIS) Awards ceremony at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila on Wednesday n…