Former energy chief bullish on reduction of onsite work in gov’t

Former Energy Secretary Vicente Perez Jr. Tuesday said the proposed reduction to the onsite work in government offices will definitely cut energy consumption but the delivery of services must not be negatively affected.

Perez said he is amenable to the proposed four-day work week or four-day onsite and oneday work-from-home set-up in government offices.

“So long as service is not compromised and there’s predictability as to what days they are working (and) service to the constituents is still a priority, I think we can manage,” he told the Philippine News Agency.

Asked for the plan’s possible impact on investors’ sentiments on government services, Perez discounted any problem, noting that some companies are still implementing hybrid work set-up just like what was implemented when the pandemic hit in 2020.

Last week, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said the Department of Energy (DOE) was considering to implement a fourday work week to lessen power consumption and promote energy efficiency.

On the recommendation for the suspension of “Permit To Carry Firearms Outside of Residence” (PTCFOR) in Davao Region during Ironman 70.3 event on March 26, 2023: the suspension of PTCFOR the

One of the iconic landmarks incinerated when a fire hit Davao City’s central business dis-trict in 1964 was Brokenshire Memorial Hospital (formerly Davao Mission Hospital), then forty-five years old. Aside from daily newspaper accounts, very little is reported about the pulsating developments obtained inside the US-based United Church Board for World Minis-tries (UCBWM), a Protestant society handling the management and operation of the infirma-ry.

Four days after the fire, Paul R. Gregory, the ministry’s Pacific Area secretary, immediate-ly filed a report to the United States, an account (‘Davao Fire—Brokenshire Memorial’) that was later carried by ‘The Christian Sun,’ the sect’s publication; it was dated March 3, 1964.