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Senator Win Gatchalian said victims of fraudulent use of credit cards must not be subjected by banks to harassment and unethical debt collecting practices. Some netizens who claimed to have been victimized by financial cyber thieves through their credit card have complained to Gatchalian about the mounting finance charges they are now facing brought about […]
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri headed a Committee on Rules meeting to discuss policy issues regarding the Senate’s legislative priorities, particularly between the Rightsizing Bill, and the bills regarding the creation of new agencies, such as the proposed Department of Overseas Filipinos, the Department of Disaster Resilience and Management, the Department of Culture, and […]
Senator Dick Gordon commended Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. for filing diplomatic complaints against China’s aggression at the disputed West Philippine Sea. “I commend Secretary Locsin for taking a very important and valiant action by standing up for our rights. He did right by our country, and we support him wholeheartedly,” Gordon said. “He did right […]
Senator Dick Gordon, chairman and CEO of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), disclosed that they are targeting a nationwide roll out by February 1 of the saliva RT-PCR test that the Department of Health gave the green light to recently. Following the DOH’s approval of the use of saliva as an alternative specimen to the […]
Senator Cynthia Villar, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, is pushing for the declaration of the Province of Catanduanes as the “Abaca Capital of the Philippines” in her recently filed Senate Bill No. 1748. The Philippines is the top producer of abaca in the world. Catanduanes is the top abaca producer of […]
Aiming to improve the administration of justice in the country, Senator Dick Gordon sponsored before the plenary the committee report on a proposed measure that would ensure the protection and security of the members of the Bench and the entire judiciary. “Today, I am sponsoring another breakthrough bill for the judiciary. The killing of 34 […]
The Philippine Red Cross reached another milestone with the use of the Saliva RT-PCR testing for COVID-19, which, Senator Dick Gordon said, will democratize testing and detection of the disease. At the official launching of the new testing system that the Department of Health has recently approved for use in the Red Cross’ molecular laboratories, […]
Electricity has been restored to 98 percent of consumers affected by the recent typhoons in Albay, while restoration work continues to the remaining households still without power in the province, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) said. Based on the monitoring of the NEA Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Department as of Thursday (January 21), the […]
To bolster the country’s efforts in developing and implementing e-government services, Senator Sonny Angara said that local government units (LGUs) should take the lead in digital transformation for the public sector. Angara noted how the shift to digital or online services has accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and “government cannot afford to […]
While waiting for the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, the government should conduct “practice runs” that will test the readiness of the country’s health infrastructure to vaccinate millions of people, according to Senator Joel Villanueva. Villanueva, chair of the Senate labor committee explained that “test runs” would also allow the government to “fix kinks, plug manpower […]