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(Eagle News) – Starting tomorrow, Thursday, April 9, the public is enjoined to show their appreciation for the country’s frontliners in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by going to their doorways or windows and giving an applause, or by posting or sharing videos thanking them. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles announced this in a virtual presser of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on Wednesday, April 8. He said that on […]
(Eagle News) – The Interagency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease again warned those who are committing acts of harassment and discrimination due to fears about COVID-19, saying that they will be charged and penalized in accordance with the Bayanihan to Heal as One Law. Cabinet Secretary and IATF spokesperson Karlo Nograles repeated the warning on Monday, April 6, after receiving reports that the family of a patient who died due to coronavirus in […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government appealed to Filipinos not to harass or discriminate against health care workers who are treating COVID-19 patients, saying that this is not the way that the people should act in this time of crisis. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that they are saddened to receive reports that health care workers, and even ordinary Filipinos who are dealing with the COVID-19 patients have been barred from entering villages or their […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government on Saturday, April 4, thanked the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church Of Christ) Executive Minister for allowing the use of the whole Ciudad de Victoria complex in Bulacan to house coronavirus patients as well as the frontliners, including the health care workers who will be treating them. In a virtual presser, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles thanked INC Executive Minister Brother Eduardo Manalo after the Church Of Christ allowed not […]
DSWD given full control and supervision of funds (Eagle News) – Malacanang said on Thursday, April 2, that some P5,000 to P8,000 monthly “cash assistance” would be given directly to the 18 million poor families in the country who have already been identified by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). In a virtual press briefing, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that President Rodrigo Duterte had decided to give the assistance package to […]
(Eagle News) – Foreign nationals will no longer be allowed to enter the country while the enhanced community quarantine is enforced to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Malacanang said Sunday night, March 22. The order took effect on Sunday, March 22, as the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases approved the earlier Department of Foreign Affairs directive on the suspension of all visas and visa-free privileges to foreign nationals. […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang announced an automatic price freeze nationwide on basic commodities including food, agricultural products, medicines, and the petroleum products, and warned hoarders and violators that they would be charged criminally. In a press briefing late Wednesday night, March 19, Cabinet secretary Karlo Nograles said that this nationwide price freeze is being implemented immediately amid the state of calamity declared on March 16 by President Rodrigo Duterte because of the coronavirus situation […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang released guidelines on the strict implementation of the “enhanced community quarantine” for the whole island of Luzon including strict home quarantine, prohibition of mass gatherings and suspension of mass public transport. The enforced community quarantine will be implemented starting 12 a.m., Tuesday, March 17, until 12 a.m. of April 13, 2020 amid rising coronavirus cases which as of Monday were at least 140. Cabinet secretary Karlo Nograles said that the […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, May 4, expressed his condolences to the kin of former Speaker Prospero Nograles, who has passed away. “I am deeply saddened to hear his demise,” Duterte said in a statement. Duterte also hailed Nograles, who was at one time considered his political rival. Nograles ran against Duterte in the 1992 polls for Davao mayor and in the 2001 elections, but lost. He served as Speaker of the House from […]
(Eagle News) — Former House Speaker Prospero Nograles, 71, passed away peacefully, according to his son, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, on Saturday, May 4. “Papa passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family. May we please ask for your continued prayers,” a statement from Secretary Nograles read. He also thanked all those who have been part of his father’s life. Details of the wake will follow, he said. The senior Nograles was the first ever […]
(Eagle News) — Representative Karlo Nograles of Davao City’s first district is the new Cabinet Secretary, taking his oath on Monday, Nov. 5, to fill in the position left vacant by former cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco who is running for Bohol governor. Nograles himself confirmed that he had already taken his oath, and thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for his confidence in him. “As a fellow Mindanaoan and kapwa probinsyano, I hope to contribute to […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — House Appropriation Committee Chairman Karlo Nograles said that the proposed salary increase for members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) will be easily passed in Congress. Nograles said that the members of the AFP and the PNP have proven that they are deserving of the increase when they ended the crisis in Marawi City. “Our men and women in uniform proved […]
