Two were slightly hurt when an improvised explosive device went off inside a bus while its driver was maneuvering through a stretch of the busy GenSan Drive here at noontime Thursday.

"When there is a people's council, all the processes, from planning, to budgeting, to the implementation of the program, will be more scrutinized," Belmonte said.

A barangay chairman was gunned down by motorcycle-riding men in Tuao, Cagayan on Tuesday.

The provincial government of Negros Occidental aims to achieve a 100 percent vaccination rate of its target population, with the launch of an eight-day inoculation campaign next month.

Over 800 vendors and other informal workers in the National Capital Region have received P20 million in cash and livelihood assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment.

The slight surge in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila in the past week could be caused by the more transmissible Omicron subvariants and had nothing to do with election-related activities, according to the OCTA Research Group.

President Duterte has signed laws establishing cultural centers and museums in Kalinga, Biliran and Cagayan de Oro City.

Fourteen foreign tourists and two crewmembers of a yacht who visited the Tubbataha Reef in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan have contracted COVID.

The special elections held in 14 barangays in Tubaran, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday were generally peaceful and ”highly successful,” according to the Philippine National Police and Commission on Elections.

Minimum wage earners in Central Visayas are getting an increase of P31 in their daily take-home pay, the Department of Labor and Employment announced yesterday.