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Senator Kiko Pangilinan lauded the achievement of student-inventor Carvey Ehren Maigue for winning an international sustainability award for his technology that generates renewable energy from crop waste. “Binabati ko ang Mapua sa pagkapanalo ni Carvey Maigue dahil sa kanyang imbensyon na medyo malapit sa aking puso, renewable energy brought about by fruit and vegetable waste,” said Pangilinan […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles and National Nutrition Council (NNC) Executive Director Dr. Azucena Dayanghirang jointly conducted the soft launch of the Tutok Kainan program at the NNC headquarters on November 23, 2020, specifically targeting and addressing the food and nutritional needs of pregnant women and young children. Tutok Kainan will distribute the Enhanced Nutribun, ready-to-eat […]
A week after appearing on the House floor to appeal for additional aid for Isabela residents adversely affected by floods caused by Typhoon Ulysses, Isabela 6th District Rep. Inno Dy V on Monday thanked House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco for proposing that an additional P5 billion be added to the calamity fund under the proposed […]
Senator Bato Dela Rosa expressed full support for an increase in the budget of the housing department as well as the reconstruction and rehabilitation of war-torn Marawi City to ensure a decent and permanent shelter for all Filipinos. In his manifestation during the Senate public hearing on the proposed budget of the Department of Human […]
Senator Joel Villanueva scored the Department of Health (DOH) for its persistent failure to augment the health human resource needed for the country’s COVID-19 response, saying that its emergency hiring program offers terms that are worse than “endo” and unreasonable as the pandemic is anticipated to last until next year. Villanueva, chair of the Senate […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said in a radio interview over the weekend that government would concretely address issues arising from the pressing problem of hunger and poverty amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “The hunger problem is worldwide. According to the United Nations, 690 million individuals suffer from hunger on a daily basis, and the […]
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles denounced the recent killings of a lawyer and judge in separate incidents, which adds to growing the list of lawyers, judges, and prosecutors killed since 2016 up to 52. Lawyer Eric Jay Magcamit was gunned down on Tuesday while on his way to a hearing in Quezon, Palawan. Meanwhile, […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has welcomed Malacañang’s creation of an expanded, special inter-agency task force to take charge of rehabilitating Bicol and other places across Luzon affected by the three devastating typhoons that struck Luzon in barely two weeks’ time. “We welcome the apparent expansion of the special task force that President Duterte created […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles led national and local officials in the 14th virtual turn over ceremony of Typhoon Yolanda housing units, this time in the town of Ivisan in Capiz last November 17, 2020 under the auspices of the Yolanda Permanent Housing Project in Region 6.Nograles chairs the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Unified Implementation […]
With the buffet of disasters battering different parts the country yearly, Senator Dick Gordon has proposed additional allocations to augment the calamity funds of local government units (LGUs), especially those that were hit by the recent disasters that hit the country, such as the regions of Bicol, Cagayan and the National Capital Region, among others. […]