All 17 mayors of the National Capital Region have agreed on new curfew hours for their respective cities and municipality effective May 1. The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) made the announcement on its Facebook page on Wednesday, April 28. "Metro Manila mayors, through Resolution 21-09 Series of 2021, have unanimously agreed to adjust curfew hours starting May 1. New unified curfew hours will be from 10 pm to 4 am," the announcement said. Meanwhile, MMDA chairman Benhur Abalos said the Metro Manila Council would depend the decision to the President when it comes to the new quarantine status...

  The Liter of Light movement aims to connect people and encourage them to build solar lights for communities without the use of electricity. To celebrate 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines, SM Supermalls installed a solar-lights of the Santo Niño de Cebu on display display at SM Seaside City Cebu on April 26 and 27. Hand-crafted solar lights brightened the sky as the Liter of Light, a Filipino-born global grassroots solar-lighting movement, unveiled the largest solar to give a tribute to Santo Niño de Cebu in commemorating 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines. “SM Seaside City Cebu...

  The community pantry which produced similar initiatives around the country will halt its operations and receiving of goods for those affected by the quarantines following what it called 'red-tagging' in some government social media pages. Anna Patricia Non, the person who started the concept of Community Pantry in Maginhawa, said that the operations will be temporarily unavailable for the safety of its volunteers. "Malungkot po dahil hindi muna maipapamahagi ang goods na inihanda namin buong maghapon dahil po sa #RedTagging na nagaganap. Magbigat sa pakirandam ko kasi maganda po ang intentions ko noong binuo ko ang #CommunityPantry at ilang...

Only 8% of the allocated P22.9 billion in financial help was dispensed in the NCR Plus area which was under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) for two weeks, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on Monday. In a televised Talk to the Nation briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte, DSWD Chief Rolando Bautista said P1,757,281,000 of the P22,915,422,000 social amelioration program fund was disbursed to constituents suffering the most from the lockdown. "As of April 11, based na rin sa data ng DILG (Department of the Interior and Local Government), ang actual beneficiaries paid ay 1,757,281 and amount...

  Netizens are seeking for accountability for the quarantine violator who died after being forced to do 300 rounds of exercise. According to Reichelyn Balce, live-in partner of the victim Darren Peñaredondo, the violator was arrested by village watchmen for violating the curfew on April 1, after he was seen buying drinking water past 6 PM. In a Facebook post of Adrian Luceña, the victim’s cousin, 28-year-old Peñaredondo died after being forced to do 300 reps of pumps in Barangay Tejero In a phone interview of Rappler with Peñaredondo’s live-in partner, Reichelyn Balce, she said her partner complained about the...