Despite the negative investment sentiments, Filipinos investing in stock market remains relatively high, according to an official of the country’s leading online stockbroker in the Philippines.
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas said Friday that the P2 billion budget allocation for National Irrigation Agency is a victory for farmers. This as the group claimed that the irrigation service will now be subsidized by the government.
Three days before the Christmas celebration, the Department of Trade and Industry XI assured the public that there will be no price hike for “noche Buena” items all through out the yuletide celebration.
The city government is hoping to inspire the public of its so-called “Urban Edible Landscape Project” where people can create a garden of plants using empty containers and plastic bottles.
To stem the tide of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and the rising number of teenage pregnancy cases in the city, the Department of Health announced Monday that it would fast-track next year the distribution of condoms in public schools.
Public school teachers here lauded the additional increase of chalk allowance after the bicameral conference committee approved raising it to P2,500.
The Lapanday Foods Corporation and the agrarian reform beneficiaries who are occupying some 145-hectares of lands in Barangay Madaum here will be meeting in a dialogue on Monday, Dec. 19.
Lapanday Foods Corporation said the total amount of damages incurred after protesting farmers chopped down some 2,000 banana crops amounts to $120,000.
The Commission on Higher Education’s proposed P8.3 billion additional budget has been pushed by both the Senate and House of Representatives to grant free tuition in all state universities and colleges starting next year.
Antonio Tuyak, 61, has been a farmer for the last 35 years before the land he was tilling got into a land dispute with Lapanday Foods Corporation.
