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Quirino governor and Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines president Dax Cua hailed the Barangay Drug Clearing Program for its efforts to rid communities of illegal drugs. This, as the Philippine National Police reported that more than 26,000 barangays across the country have been cleared of illegal drugs through the program’s “whole-of-nation approach.” “I […]
Four bills which seek to protect certain labor groups, have hurdled the third and final reading in the House of Representatives. Rizal 4th District Rep. Fidel Nograles, who chairs the Committee on Labor, lauded the passage of House Bills 988 (Increasing the Service Incentive Leave of Workers Act), 924 (Barangay Skilled Workers Act), 227 (Caregivers […]
Senate President Migz Zubiri received Vietnamese Ambassador Hoang Huy Chung at the Senate recently to discuss ways to improve the strategic partnership between the Philippines and Vietnam, and the visit of the Vietnamese parliamentary delegation to the Philippines. The parliamentary visit is headed by the President of the National Assembly of Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue. […]
Senator Francis Tolentino said Justin Brownlee’s bid to become a Filipino citizen may secure the blessing of the Senate by December. “So give and take, since we’re done with the budget hearings, probably by December we can have some progress on this, sans any opposition,” said Tolentino, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and […]
Senator Lito Lapid filed a resolution congratulating and commending young Philippine chess players for winning their age group and obtaining FIDE titles in the standard chess category at the 6th annual Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand recently. The Philippines obtained a total of 32 gold medals, 27 silver medals, and 21 […]
The resolute advocacy of urgent climate action on the international stage by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.— from New York to Bangkok—has cast him as the champion or point person of high-risk developing economies like the Philippines long seeking financial and technical aid from wealthy nations that have grown even richer from their largely unchecked greenhouse […]
The Senate ended its marathon debates on House Bill (HB) 4488 or the P5.268 trillion 2023 proposed national budget, with the Commission on Higher Education’s budget as the last agency tackled. Senate President Migz Zubiri and 15 other senators closed the period of interpellations and gave his colleagues, staff and all government agencies pats on […]
As the Senate continues with the budget deliberations for the 2023 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), Senate President Migz Zubiri filed a proposed resolution forming a Select Oversight Committee to investigate government agencies’ utilization of their allocated confidential and intelligence funds. “It has long been the practice of the Senate to constitute a Select Oversight Committee […]
Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairperson Karlo Nograles underscored the critical role of human resource (HR) management as the public sector workplace faces transformations brought by COVID-19. In his virtual keynote message at the Seminar-Conference on Public Sector Productivity held by the Development Academy of the Philippines on 18 November 2022 via hybrid mode, the CSC […]
Senator Lito Lapid has filed Senate Bill No. (SBN) 1511 which pushes to raise the number of paid service incentive leave (SIL) credits granted to qualified employees from five to 10. The proposed measure seeks to amend a provision of the Labor Code of the Philippines, which stipulates that “every employee who has rendered at […]