Hi Edward, Here are the most important news that you need to know.       Restaurants, spas can fire unvaxxed staff, defer pay  Establishments that are allowed to offer dine-in or in-person services under the relaxed alert levels so long as their workers are vaccinated can withhold the salary of—or even fire—employees who are not vaccinated, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Thursday.   Inquirer Plus offers FREE 30 day trial   DENR under Senate fire for fund transfer​ Senators castigated the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for transferring P1.4 billion over the past nine years to the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management and the Philippine International Trading Corp. for its purchases. Sen. Cynthia Villar says the DENR should stop this practice because of the perception of corruption “whenever funds are placed there.”   NEVER ALONE IN PAIN Fr. Flavie Villanueva extends words of comfort on Wednesday to families of seven drug war victims whose remains were exhumed as the five-year lease on the graves expired. The remains were then cremated with the assistance of the Society of the Divine Word. —CHARLIE VILLEGAS/CONTRIBUTOR   Get a free 2-year subscription to Inquirer Plus and waived annual fees for life when you apply and get approved for an HSBC Red Mastercard and Gold Visa Credit Card. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more   Claimants to PMA land oppose fence​ Indigenous communities and informal settlers around Fort del Pilar in Baguio City, home to the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), are protesting the fence being built to enclose the 373-hectare military reservation, which included lands the Ibaloy claim as their ancestral domain.    Take our news quiz!   Opinion: ‘Grand conspiracy’​ The Senate blue ribbon committee has released its preliminary report on the Pharmally scandal that appears to have involved billions of pesos of fraudulent government transactions while the country was battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and the report’s conclusions are more than damning. There was a “grand conspiracy” surrounding the deal, said Sen. Richard Gordon, chair of the committee, and the involvement goes all the way up to President Duterte.   SUBSCRIBE | FACEBOOK | VIBER INSTAGRAM | LINKEDIN | SUGGEST     © 2021 PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Inquirer Newsletters. Unsubscribe