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2 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
The nation’s weather monitoring bureau released the iHEATMAP as an online heat index monitoring platform, allowing the public to access real-time heat index data through their own devices. The Department of Science and Technology through the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (DOST-PAGASA) launched Interactive Heat Index Mapping and Prediction (iHeatMap) on April 4.
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2 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
Despite what those Tiktok-affiliated card-pullers and astrology enthusiasts tell you, the only planet you should look out for in April is the sun. It is a hot month, to the point where local classes are shortened to let students go home to avoid the numerous trips to the clinic due to heat stroke. It seems very timely that the academic calendar is shifting back to the old one, as climate change only made the hot months hotter.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
Palawan State University’s College of Teacher Education received the Excellence in Quality Assurance in Teacher Education Award on Wednesday, given by the Commission on Higher Education to recognize the institution’s quality education and service, resulting in consistently high performance in licensure examinations and accreditation.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
Education Secretary Sonny Angara called for stakeholder involvement from private institutions and religious sectors to aid in the social aspects of educational reform on Wednesday, highlighting their particular skill in addressing systemic gaps in the Philippine education system.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
To curb potential profiteering, the Department of Agriculture is considering setting a maximum suggested retail price (MSRP) for garlic and eggs if market prices rise again, the agency said in a press release on Tuesday. The Department of Agriculture (DA) stated that while the current price of garlic per kilo is considered affordable, they are prepared to implement an MSRP if necessary.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
To help rein in soaring pork prices, the government-run Food Terminal Inc. has partnered with Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC in a new supply agreement signed Friday. The Department of Agriculture (DA) said in a press release on April 1 that Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) had signed the memorandum of agreement with the local branch of Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC (CP Foods) as part of a pilot program to combat the rising prices of pork in the country.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
With the local election campaign underway, Palawan News spoke with experienced voters who have witnessed the province’s democratic evolution, seeking perspectives on its future. The upcoming 2025 national and local midterm elections will mark the second national election held after the pandemic and the third election held in Palawan, counting last year’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
The Philippine Beach Games will return to Talaudyong on May 2–4, in time for the summer season, to entice players into friendly competition, including the newly added beach football category, following high demand from the previous year. The Philippine Beach Games (PBG) was founded by John Paul Demontaño, a sports instructor from the University of the Philippines Diliman, as a way to foster sports tourism and amateur games in the country.
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3 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
The province’s health office reported an increase in dengue cases from January to March this year compared to the same period in 2024, with a majority of cases found in the northern part of Palawan. John Bryan Boyles from the Palawan Provincial Health Office (PHO) presented the current state of dengue cases during a media seminar initiated by the Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. (PSFI) on March 28.
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4 weeks ago | 
palawan-news.com | Helen Mae Padrones
Nearly 35,000 Palawan residents have received land titles under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, with over 64,000 distributed, the local office of the Department of Agrarian Reform reported. The land reform agency said that 64,091 hectares of land had been distributed to under the agrarian reform program to 34,968 beneficiaries. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Officer I Fedeleo De Guzman shared updates from the department during the Kapihan sa PIA on March 27.
