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PEACE PARTY-LIST TO DISTRIBUTE LEARNING MATERIALS

A group advocating for quality education will be distributing learning materials in support of the Department of Education’s Brigada Pagbasa. “The Brigada Pagbasa is a worthwhile initiative by the DepEd, and we wish to complement their efforts to instill a love of learning and reading in our children by also distributing educational materials as well […]

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PROTECT VS LAMBDA VARIANT, GET VACCINATED – GORDON

As active COVID-19 cases exceeded 100,000, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) reminded the public to take extra measures. After the hypertransmissible Delta variant, the Department of Health has detected a case of the new Lambda variant, which has been confirmed in more than 20 countries. The first Lambda case was a 35-year-old-female who tested positive […]

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MATCH SKILLS OF OFWS WITH LOCAL JOBS – VILLANUEVA

Senator Joel Villanueva called for an inventory of skills of thousands of overseas Filipinos being repatriated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, urging the government to match the available talent with the existing demand of the labor market. Touted as the largest repatriation of Filipinos since the Gulf war in the 1990s, Villanueva said it was […]

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POE TO BSP: GIVE CONSUMERS RELIEF DURING ECQ

Senator Grace Poe asked the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to exert its persuasive powers on banks to provide relief to consumers during the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). “The BSP has lowered interest rates and provided banks regulatory relief. In the same way, it can encourage banks to provide their clients relief during these difficult […]

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CREATE NAT’L VACCINE PASSPORT NOW – ONG

A party-list lawmaker asked Congress to expedite the passage of a measure that would create a globally recognized national vaccination passport for Filipinos fully vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Ang Probinsyano Party-list Representative Ronnie Ong made the appeal after reports that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were denied entry in Hong Kong because immigration authorities […]

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WORKERS DISPLACED BY ECQ GET P2K AYUDA — BELMONTE

Displaced workers in Quezon City not included in the national government’s enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) cash aid will get a one-time P2,000 cash aid from the local government. Under the Kalingang QC program, eligible beneficiaries are those who will not receive salary for the duration of the ECQ from Aug. 6 to 20. Eligible beneficiaries […]

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ABANTE: NAT’L SENIOR CITIZENS HEALTH CENTER NEEDED

A House leader on Monday thanked his colleagues in the Committee on Ways and Means for supporting proposals to establish a national health center that specializes in the care of senior citizens––something that is long overdue given the growing number of the elderly in the country––and for approving tax exemption provisions involving the said institution. […]

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ABANTE URGES DUQUE TO ‘SPARE PALACE’ AND RESIGN

When it comes to government officials, it is one’s performance in the present that matters, not one’s past. This according to Deputy Speaker Benny Abante Jr., who on Friday said that “leaders in government should be held accountable for their actions today––not what they did years ago––especially when it comes to dealing with the COVID-19 […]

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VILLAFUERTE: CREATE ‘MEGA FARMS’ FOR FOOD SECURITY

Given the 2.5%-contraction of agriculture in the year’s first semester–the biggest output decline in five years–Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has called on the Duterte administration to invest bigtime in “mega farms” across the country to attain food security even at this time of the pandemic and finally transform this underperforming yet resources-rich sector into […]

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3 QC COUNCILORS SEEK P1B AID FOR POOR QC FAMILIES

Quezon City District 2 Councilor Winnie Castelo and two other city councilors are proposing the appropriation of P1 billion as “ayuda” or aid for poor families in Quezon City who have been left out in the national government’s social amelioration program (SAP) during the two-week hard lockdown in Metro Manila. The three introduced in the […]