IKOT.PH
Senator Cynthia Villar has asked the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to revisit a proposal raised last year to provide actual rice to the beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer program and buy rice from local farmers. Villar, chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, said “DSWD can help ease difficulties […]
Senator Bong Go has enjoined the Department of Justice (DOJ) to do its sworn duty to maintain the country’s correctional facilities and ensure that inmates are given fair treatment. In his statement which was read during a recent Senate hearing, Go stressed that all inmates must be treated equally in jail, and that the patronage […]
Senator Bong Go has expressed support for the order of President Rodrigo Duterte to immediately re-arrest the nearly 2,000 heinous crime convicts who were freed early due to the allegedly erroneous application of the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law. “I believe that their re-arrest is a crucial step to correct the error committed by […]
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles urged solons to conduct an investigation in aid of legislation on the controversial and allegedly anomalous awarding of the New Centennial Water Source-Kaliwa Dam Project (NCWS-KDP) to a Chinese firm that has inadequate requirements, saying that government should ensure that the critical water supply project is awarded to a […]
Senator Bato dela Rosa wants inmates at Building No. 14 of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa denied of Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) coverage because of their continuous engagement in the illegal drug trade. Dela Rosa directed the suggestion to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra during the joint hearing of the Committee on Justice […]
As farmers bare the average selling palay prices to be in single digits, Senator Kiko Pangilinan welcomed Agriculture Secretary William Dar’s announcement that the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Sagip Saka Act of 2019 will be released. “We thank Secretary Dar for his decision to speed up the IRR for the Sagip Saka […]
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles has filed a measure seeking to strengthen the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) by mandating the PAO to extend legal assistance to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and government officials and employees who are the subject of legal cases in the conduct of their duties, as well as advocacy […]
Senator Francis Tolentino has questioned the release of convicted Chinese drug lords during the last election period as it could be a possible violation of election laws. During a Senate hearing on the early release of heinous crime convicts, Tolentino pointed out a possible violation of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Resolution 10429 and the Omnibus […]
To reduce the congestion in the country’s largest national penitentiary, Senator Dick Gordon said he favors the creation of a New Bilibid Prison (NBP) at Fort Magsaysay or Fort Mag military reservation in Nueva Ecija. Gordon said a national penitentiary at the more than 86,486-acre military reservation would be more conducive to the reformation and […]
Parents of children given the untried and largely untested Dengvaxia vaccine have complained to Senator Dick Gordon that they were not given proper information or have been warned of any side effects before their children were given the vaccine. During a consultation with Gordon, officials of the United Parents Against Dengvaxia (UPAD) lamented that their […]