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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) failed to answer a lot of questions from Senator Raffy Tulfo regarding some projects affecting the oppressed Indigenous peoples (IPs) during the Senate deliberations on the proposed 2024 budget of said agency recently. Tulfo noted that one of the projects that did not follow due process and […]
Marathon morning-to-past-midnight floor debates on the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 ended 4:20 a.m., “proof of how the Senate takes seriously its constitutional mandate of ensuring that taxes paid by the people must be spent properly,” Senate President Migz Zubiri said. When Zubiri gaveled the adjournment of the session at dawn of November 21, […]
Senator Bong Go expressed his support for the continuation and expansion of the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-Asa (BP2) program. Go reminded the Department of Social Welfare and Development during the Senate plenary deliberations for their proposed 2024 budget to ensure that BP2 beneficiaries receive all the support and assistance due to them in accordance with […]
Public Information Officer (PIO) Designate Janice Abrogar-Guarin of Mangaldan town in Pangasinan was adjudged as the Best News Writer during the workshop of the three-day general assembly and training of Region 1 Government Info Officers (IOs) held recently at the Brentwood Apartelle, Baguio City. The convention dubbed “M4mation Officers Para sa Bagong Pilipinas” was organized […]
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has submitted to the bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA), for confirmation, the ad interim appointment of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr., CA Assistant Minority Leader and Surigao del Sur Rep. Johnny Pimentel said. “Secretary (Tiu) Laurel and Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa are on top of the new batch of 57 […]
The House of Representatives approved the bill seeking to establish a new Eastern Samar State University (ESSU) campus in the Municipality of Balangiga. Under House Bill No. 9302, the ESSU will soon have its seventh campus in the Municipality of Balangiga. “We, in Congress, are absolutely determined to further improve public access to free higher […]
Marking a pivotal milestone in health care service in the province of Bulacan, the Bulacan Medical Center received a new CT scan machine from Department of Health (DOH), Central Luzon Center for Health Development, and United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) under Asian Development Bank-Funded Health System Enhancement to Address and Limit (HEAL) COVID-19 […]
Senator Grace Poe asked relevant agencies to strictly monitor the handling of milk supply used in government feeding programs to prevent spoilage. “Pag-ingatan natin ang handling at delivery dahil madaling mapanis ang gatas,” Poe said during the budget deliberation of the Department of Education, which is implementing the school-based feeding program. “Milk can really fill […]
Senator Raffy Tulfo questioned the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) previous acquisition of low-quality mobile X-ray equipment from China with overpriced maintenance costs. During the plenary deliberation on the proposed 2024 budget of the Department of BOC, Tulfo asked why BOC chose to purchase equipment from China over brands from other countries like US that are […]
Senator Bong Go, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, personally witnessed the groundbreaking of the Super Health Center in Lipa City, Batangas recently. In his speech, Go emphasized the importance of bringing primary healthcare closer to the people. The legislator, an adopted son of CALABARZON with familial roots being a Tesoro from […]