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Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara said every barangay in the country should have a birthing facility to help reduce the risk of maternal and infant deaths. “There should be a safe and sustainable birth center in every barangay to give mothers and their children access to health care providers without breaking the bank,” said the seasoned […]
“If you produce the garbage, you deal with it––you do not dump in on your neighbor’s front yard.” This, according to Luntiang Pilipinas Party-list first nominee Michael Ubac, is the logic behind calls to prohibit the importation of plastic waste and for the government to ratify amendments to the Basel Convention, an international treaty that […]
A party-list group vying for a seat in Congress this May welcomed what it called the “timely intervention” of Malacañang in efforts to finish the resettlement housing projects for the thousands of families affected by Typhoon Yolanda. “It is the LGUs that are on the ground making sure that their constituents benefit from these programs.” […]
Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara said government should pay teachers better if it wants to improve the quality of education in public schools. “Quality education begins with quality teachers. And to have good quality teachers in our public schools we need to pay them well,” Angara said, as he reiterated his appeal to the government to […]
Senatorial candidate Bong Go said he supports the call for the reimposition of the death penalty for heinous crimes in the wake of the brutal mutilation and murder of Grade 9 student Christine Lee Silawan in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu. Go condemned the killing of Silawan, a resident of Barangay Mactan in the city. Silawan was […]
Senator Cynthia Villar defended the Rice Tariffication Law anew, as she stressed that government will appropriate P10 billion in an annual agricultural fund to help ease the effects of World Trade Organization-governed rice importation on local production. Villar said that should the Executive Department reneges on its pledge to put up the fund, she would […]
A senator said the signing of the Energy Virtual One-Stop Shop (EVOSS) Act into law will “herald the rejuvenation” of the energy sector as it will streamline the processes involved. Senator Win Gatchalian, chair of the Senate committee on energy, said the newly signed law that will put in place a web-based monitoring system that […]
With the campaign period for local candidates starting in two weeks, Luntiang Pilipinas Party-list first nominee Michael Ubac on Thursday urged all candidates vying for public office to follow laws that prohibit the posting of campaign materials on trees, saying that the soon-to-be crowded designated areas for election materials may prompt supporters of candidates to […]
Some 5,000 Albayanos welcomed senatorial candidates being endorsed by the Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) regional party during their campaign sortie at the Albay Astrodome in Legazpi City. Ako Bikol (AKB) party-list Rep. Alfredo Garbin welcomed the candidates and solicited the support of city residents for the administration bets, whose advocacies, he said, will bring more […]
The European Union (EU) is “satisfied” with the Philippine government’s explanation on the campaign against illegal drugs by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte amid criticism that it is violating human rights. Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) executive director, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, said the Philippine delegation, in a series of engagements in […]