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Aggressive COVID-19 mass testing, mass contact tracing and mass vaccine booster shots, vaccination of minors aged 5 to 11 – and a tougher stance against violators. These are among the steps the government and the public should take in dealing with COVID-19 – including the latest surge of infections, Senator Panfilo Lacson said. Lacson, who […]
About 1.673 million small rice farmers would benefit from President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing into law of Republic Act 11598, otherwise known as the Cash Assistance To Filipino Farmers Act, according to Senator Cynthia Villar. An elated Villar, chairperson of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, thanked Duterte for the law that would be a […]
A month into the killing of veteran journalist Jess Malabanan, Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), cited progress in the official investigation now being jointly conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). “We have made significant gains in the […]
Unvaccinated individuals have found an ally in Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte over a proposal to restrict them from entering the city and availing of some government services. Earlier, Duterte announced that she was not keen on imposing restrictions for unvaccinated people in Davao City similar to those now being implemented in Metro Manila following […]
A lawmaker is urging the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to roll out a new round of vaccination drive to protect Filipinos against COVID-19 and the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus. Cavite Representative Elpidio Barzaga Jr. said the government’s pandemic response task force should consider giving additional […]
Quezon City District 2 Councilor Winnie Castelo is urging the city government to allocate P1 billion as additional “ayuda” or financial aid for the city’s poor families. Castelo said COVID-19 cases have shot up more than 100 times from about 300 before the Christmas holidays to 33,169 on Monday due to the spread of the […]
With the country tallying a record-high 33,169 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Quezon City District 1 (QCD1) congressional candidate Arjo Atayde on Tuesday urged his supporters to focus on providing assistance for QCD1 households in lieu of holding meetings and activities meant to rally support for his campaign. “As of January 9, there are already […]
Lawyer Alex Lacson, a senatorial candidate running under the Kapatiran Party and the Tropang Leni-Kiko, is appealing to the Muslim leaders in Mindanao to give Republic Act No. 11596, which bans and criminalizes child marriages, a chance. Lacson made the appeal after the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), the interim governing body of the Bangsamoro Autonomous […]
Senator Win Gatchalian hailed the signing of a law that would grant tax relief to private schools, a move that the lawmaker said would help them stay afloat amid the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Republic Act No. 11635, which President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law on December 10, 2021, further amends Section 27 […]
Senator Kiko Pangilinan calls on the government, particularly the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), to immediately intervene in the looming increase in prices of bread products as millions of Filipinos are still reeling from the catastrophic effect of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the recent devastation brought by Typhoon Odette in the regions. Pangilinan […]