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A lawmaker at the House of Representatives suggested the mass hiring of nurses and medical technologists to ramp up the government’s vaccination drive, especially with the start of the program for all minors aged 12 to 17. Rizal Representative Fidel Nograles said it will also be crucial to accelerate the national vaccination rate to ensure […]
The fourth congressional district of Pangasinan now has its own website promoting tourist destinations, creative industry workers, and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The website was launched recently led by Rep. Christopher de Venecia, the brainchild of the project. “We will be featuring in the website https://explorepd4.com/ (Explore Pangasinan District 4) small businesses in the district […]
A leader of the House of Representatives said local production of COVID-19 jabs and other vaccines for livestock is crucial not only to ensure a steady vaccine supply during a health crisis, but also to ensure the country’s economic security. Deputy Speaker Len Alonte urged the Fiscal Incentives Review Board, the Department of Trade and […]
A measure seeking to establish the barangay microfinance system that would facilitate easy and efficient access to necessary funds and credits for such entrepreneurial activities has hurdled committee level at the House of Representatives. The House Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development approved the committee report on the substitute bill to House Bill […]
The chairperson of the House Committee on Energy said the newly signed LPG Industry Regulation Act would be beneficial to millions of Filipino households as it promotes every consumer’s right to safe and non-defective LPG cylinders. Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel Macapagal-Arroyo said Republic Act 11592 establishes an LPG Cylinder Improvement Program to ensure that unsafe […]
Two lawmakers at the House of Representatives called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant the COVID-19 vaccines full approval to encourage the hesitant individuals to get inoculated. Agusan del Norte Representative Lawrence Fortun said the full FDA approval will enable the private sector, the private hospitals, pharmacies, and the doctors to order […]
The chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Labor and Employment thumbed down the policy of making coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination a mandatory condition for work being implemented by some businesses. 1PACMAN Party-list Representative Enrico Pineda said the “no jab, no job” policy requiring a person to be vaccinated so that he or […]
A lawmaker said it is necessary to construct distinct field offices for constitutional bodies separate from the local executive and legislative offices to show the constitutional independence and autonomy of these offices. Iligan City Representative Frederick Siao said the constitutional independence and autonomy of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Civil Service Commission (CSC), Commission […]
Selected owners of sari-sari stores and poor working students in Iloilo City received cash assistance from the office of Taguig–Pateros’s 1st District Representative Alan Peter Cayetano. 20 owners of sari-sari stores received P3,500 each while 20 indigent working students received P10,000 each as financial aid coursed through the office of Iloilo City Lone District Representative […]
A Mindanao lawmaker appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to certify as urgent a measure providing monetary compensation for residents affected by the Marawi City siege. Anak Mindanao Party-list Representative Amihilda Sangcopan said the immediate passage of the Marawi Compensation bill would help fast-track the promised rehabilitation to the war-torn city and the immediate return of […]