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Senate President and PDP Laban Koko Pimentel III, together with House Speaker and PDP Laban Secretary General Bebot Alvarez, were present as the leadership of the province of Compostela Valley and of the regional center Tagum City, Davao del Norte, pledged their allegiance to the ruling party PDP Laban in twin events this weekend. […]
The Department of Education (DepEd) has yet to roll out the law mandating financial literacy and entrepreneurial training in basic education. “Two years have passed since the Youth Entrepreneurship Act was passed into law but there is still no movement in its implementation,” said Aquino, the principal sponsor and co-author of Republic Act No. […]
To ensure accountability and transparency in the conduct of law enforcement operations and improve the country’s criminal justice system, Senator Dick Gordon proposed to require the use of body cameras for law enforcers conducting search and arrest operations and their vehicles used in the said operations installed with dash-board cameras. Gordon filed Senate Bill […]
Senator Joel Villanueva urged the organizers of the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games to consider holding the sports event at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) secretary and 2019 SEA Games organizing committee chairman Alan Peter Cayetano recently revealed that the Philippines will host the international sports event across […]
The House of Representatives’ leading advocate for the adoption of a national identification system took to the floor on Tuesday to call on her colleagues to pass House Bill 6221, an Act Establishing the Filipino Identification System, or FilSys, stressing that the measure would enable the government to better serve its growing population. In […]
If the heads of both the Senate and the House of Representatives have their way, government funds will no longer be wasted on the operations of the Road Board – a redundant, graft-ridden agency that the two Congressional leaders say should be abolished. Senate President Koko Pimentel III reiterated the call of partymate House […]
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to institutionalize the compressed work week scheme to promote business competitiveness, work efficiency and labor productivity. House Bill 6152 aims to increase the normal work hours per day under a compressed work week scheme, amending Articles 83, 87 and 91 […]
Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, said that it is possible to uplift the lives of small farmers by addressing the nutritional needs of Filipino children. Legarda cited the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) nutrition program where small farmers plant the requirements for feeding programs. It is a convergence […]
Senator Sonny Angara said part of the incremental revenues of the proposed tax reform measure should be allocated for the strengthening of government’s employment assistance targeted to workers who may be affected by the tax reform. “Oo nga’t mababawasan ang buwis para mas malaki ang maiuuwing sweldo ng ating mga kababayan, pero mahalaga na […]
The House committee on constitutional amendments created four technical working groups (TWGs), composed of its members, which will draft the Philippine Federal Constitution. Each of the four groups will handle specific areas to be covered in the drafting of the new Federal Constitution. TWG 1 chaired by Rep. Corazon Nuñez-Malanyaon (1st District, Negros Oriental) […]