Windows26: Marcos vows to restore funds slashed from DepEd

December 17, 2024

Hello, reader! Today, we're covering Marcos' vow to restore DepEd funds, COA findings on PhilHealth's outdated records, and the SC ruling on a suspended pregnant teacher, Marcos' take on PH stability.

Marcos vows to restore funds slashed from DepEd

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. committed on Monday to restore the P10 billion that was slashed from the proposed funding of the Department of Education (DepEd), but clarified that it will not be through a line-item veto of the questioned provision in the P6.352-trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB).

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COA: 4,000 dead seniors still on PhilHealth database

Thousands of deceased senior citizens remain in the database of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), while data on more than a million others were either incomplete or erroneous, according to the Commission on Audit (COA).

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SC: Suspension of single, pregnant teacher illegal

The Supreme Court has ordered a school in Bohol province to pay the back wages and other benefits of a teacher who was suspended for getting pregnant out of wedlock.

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Marcos on current state of PH: We're quite stable amid political noise

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday said the current state of the country is "stable" even amid what he calls "political noise."

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Peza expects approved investments to rise by 10% in 2025

The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is projecting that the value of its approved investments next year will increase by around a tenth, banking on prospects that the manufacturing sector will continue to have the biggest contribution.

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EDITORIAL: End the export of Filipinos

Decades of dependence have created a vicious cycle where families invest heavily in education not to keep talent in the country but to export it, and where nurses, doctors, engineers, teachers, and skilled workers are seen as commodities rather than valued pillars of society.

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