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Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the government to train and hire K to 12 graduates to meet the country’s demands for contact tracers in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Though the K to 12 program promises to boost the employability of its graduates, Gatchalian emphasized that the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the government to carry out a subsidy program similar to the Paycheck Protection Program of the United States to prevent further lay-offs in the country as quarantine measures take a huge bite out of businesses’ bottom line. Gatchalian explains that a Paycheck Protection Program is a loan program designed to […]
With the enforcement of the enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) failing to prevent cases of motorcycle pillion-riding shootings, Senator Dick Gordon renewed his call for the immediate implementation of the law against it. Gordon, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights, stressed that there […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the government to protect and promote the interest of unemployed Filipino workers by providing them with new stable jobs before opening the job market to foreigners. Before giving any preferential treatment to foreign workers in the government’s flagship projects, Gatchalian called on the government to carefully consider hiring unemployed Filipinos, […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is urging distribution utilities to fast-track their digital transformation to deliver enhanced customer experience, particularly in payment systems. Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy, made the statement as he highlighted during the Energy and Sustainable Development Webinar, organized by the Ateneo School of Government, the importance of digitalization in relation […]
For the economy to recover from the battering it sustained due to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Senator Dick Gordon proposed that rampant testing should be conducted in the country’s economic zones so they could resume operations. Gordon, chairman and CEO of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), stressed that testing is key to getting […]
Deputy Speaker LRay Villafuerte has assured the Palace and the public that the House leadership under Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano will fully support the convening of a special session by Congress to pass the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, in order to continue the giving of special powers to President Rodrigo Duterte to deal […]
Senator Kiko Pangilinan urged the government to exercise extreme caution following reports that a new swine flu with a pandemic potential has been discovered in China. As such, Pangilinan calls for the establishment of a Philippine version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States. “Kagaya ng marami ay nababahala […]
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles lauded the National Privacy Commission’s efforts to work with various universities and colleges to draw up a data privacy code of conduct in line with the implementation of distance learning. “With the migration of various operations online due to the pandemic, the importance of data privacy cannot be emphasized […]
With the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) opening more molecular laboratories across the country, PRC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Senator Dick Gordon said these laboratories can also test for other infectious diseases, aside from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). “All the Red Cross molecular laboratories that are now up and running, and those that are […]