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Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri is lending his support to Mindanao farmers who are struggling against imported feed wheat. Local farmers have approached the senator from Mindanao to raise their predicament of having to compete with imported wheat feed in the market, amid the harvest season for locally produced corn. “We need to help […]
While Senator Win Gatchalian commended the swift action taken by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) against the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), he warns other distribution utilities (DUs) that may have committed similar lapses such as failure to properly inform their subscribers about the charges. The ERC recently issued a decision ordering Meralco to pay P19M […]
Senator Win Gatchalian urged hospitals to continuously expand their patient capacity for COVID-19 cases that could overload the country’s healthcare system. Gatchalian cited the latest data from the Department of Health (DOH) showing that the number of COVID-19 ward beds in the National Capital Region (NCR), or for those mild cases, asymptomatic, and suspected ones, […]
The Agriculture Students Association of the Philippines (ASAP), a confederation of agriculture students from 11 colleges and universities all over the country recognizing the urgency of promoting agriculture among the younger generation, was launched recently. At the online launch, Senator Kiko Pangilinan, who is a vegetable farmer and an advocate of farmers’ and fisher folk’s […]
While the Department of Education (DepEd) has allowed the use of 17,910 classrooms in the National Capital Region (NCR) as isolation and quarantine facilities, Senator Win Gatchalian said that a permanent evacuation center in every city and municipality should be part of the country’s efforts to ‘build back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic. Though Republic […]
Senator Win Gatchalian urged the government to ensure that learners and teachers are given psychosocial and mental health support while educators scramble to carry out logistical challenges and many learners experience feelings of anxiety as they await classes to begin amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Gatchalian’s “Education in the Better Normal” bill seeks to […]
In a bid to stress the importance of basic health protocols, particularly on the use of face masks, Senator Nancy Binay has started the distribution of washable masks to informal sector workers and backliners who support frontliners. As part of her advocacy, Binay has started the “#MaskForAll” and “#BeNiceWearAMask” project to ensure that the public, […]
The Department of Education (DepEd) received learning equipment donated by Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation – MASHAV to help with the Department’s continuous efforts to provide distance learning to Filipino students amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Chargé d’Affaires Yulia Rachinsky-Spivakov led the turnover ceremony of the learning equipment comprised of heavy-duty copiers, laptops, and […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has reiterated his call for the government to mandate the conduct of regular, randomized testing in the workplace for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed that the majority of COVID-19 cases are from the working age groups. Data from the health department showed that as […]
Senator Dick Gordon is calling for defined policies for local government units in responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Gordon made the call after the Philippine Red Cross, where he is chairman and CEO, rescued a nurse with COVID-19 who was evicted from her boarding house and was later seen roaming the streets of […]