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Senator Joel Villanueva underscored the importance of ensuring the welfare of workers affected by the pandemic as the Senate labor committee started deliberations into several proposed measures. Villanueva’s committee tackled bills on media workers welfare, occupational safety and health standards for workers in the movie and television industry, service incentive leave, registry of skilled workers […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has exhorted the government to accelerate plans to set up its own oil stockpile reserves to ensure stable supply and prices of petroleum products, more so now when the vaccine-driven economic recovery in the United States and Europe has started to ease travel restrictions and increase demand anew for fuel. […]
With the ₱141.6-billion Bayanihan 2 stimulus program expiring on June 30, Wednesday, an education advocacy group bemoaned the slow pace of disbursement that has severely impacted the education sector. “The slow disbursement of funds intended to ease the burden of education stakeholders has resulted in missed opportunities. Nakakapanghinayang dahil malaking tulong sana ang Bayanihan 2 […]
Raising concerns over yellow and red alerts threatening the Luzon grid, Senator Win Gatchalian urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to exercise its mandate to resolve the issues surrounding the impending shutdown of operations of three hydroelectric power plants in Benguet province. “At a time when there’s a threat of yellow and red alerts in […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles enumerated the accomplishments of the Duterte administration particularly in free public housing for Typhoon Yolanda victims and in the fight against hunger and poverty during the 9th Pamana: Regional PreSONA held in Tacloban City last June 25, 2021. The Pre-SONA gathering was being conducted in various regions as part of preparations […]
Senator Win Gatchalian called on all concerned agencies to be more vigilant on the emergence of new mobile and online shopping scams and intensify the campaign against deceptive and sham transactions. Gatchalian made the call to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), […]
Amid the country’s economic recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Win Gatchalian cited the important role of local universities and colleges (LUCs) in increasing access to education while addressing persistent jobs-skills mismatch. In a webinar titled “The Future of Local Colleges and Universities” hosted by the Philippine Futures Thinking Society and the […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has called on Congress to do its part in stemming the continuous hemorrhage of jobs in the country by helping Malacañang fast-track the implementation of President Duterte’s Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pagasa (BP2) initiative designed to supercharge growth and create a lot of livelihood opportunities outside Metro Manila amid the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles led participants in the 8th leg of the Kasama sa Pamana: Regional Pre-SONA (State of the Nation Address) series in San Fernando, Pampanga last June 22, 2021, together with PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar, CORDS for Central Luzon and Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., PIA Director General and PCOO Undersecretary Ramon […]
Senator Dick Gordon restated his proposal to the Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) that all incoming overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and returning Philippine residents who have been fully vaccinated abroad or in the Philippines be sent directly for home quarantine upon their arrival and then be tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) […]