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The Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (PBA) Party-list on Wednesday welcomed the Philippine Basketball Association’s (PBA) move to ease eligibility requirements for Filipino-foreigners hoping to play in the league. “This is indeed good news for foreign basketball players who have Filipino ancestry, especially those who hold dual citizenship,” PBA Party-list spokesperson Atty. Migs Nograles said. PBA […]
The government’s planned three-day national vaccination drive from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 is the “booster shot” needed to spike inoculation numbers, which nine months after the first shot was administered have yet to hit 50 percent of target, Senator Joel Villanueva said. This “one time-big time” approach is what we need, Villanueva said, adding […]
From the P200 million allocation in next year’s emergency response funds for electric cooperatives, Senator Win Gatchalian expressed his support to increase the appropriation for the Electric Cooperatives Emergency and Resiliency Fund (ECERF). The ECERF was institutionalized as a ready fund that can be tapped by ECs for faster restoration of electricity and power facilities […]
Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO Senator Dick Gordon warned the public on complacency in observing health protocols after the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases approved to place Metro Manila under Alert Level 2. According to the Department of Health (DOH), active cases might reach 52,393 next month […]
The municipality of Kiangan in Ifugao has already vaccinated more than half of its target population, attributing the accomplishment to the conduct of home vaccination. Kiangan Mayor Raldis Andrei Bulayungan said they did home vaccination when visits have been allowed. “We brought the vaccination to the grassroots which is a program to bring government programs […]
The House Committee on Health approved in principle several measures that would continue the provision of allowances and benefits to all public and private health workers during the state of public health emergency due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The panel, chaired by Quezon Representative Angelina Tan, approved House Bills 9640, 10198, 10285, 10331, […]
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno drew praise from entrepreneurs and cooperative members in Cebu after being the first presidential aspirant to reach out to the country’s second largest cooperative.Around 50 representatives from various cooperatives in the country attended the assembly at the meeting hall of the Cebu CFI Cooperative. The Cebu CFI Cooperative was started by […]
The Senate adopted a resolution concurring in the ratification of the Convention on Temporary Admission subject to certain reservations allowed under the treaty. Senator Koko Pimentel III, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, said Senate Resolution 832 or the Convention on Temporary Admission and its various Annexes constitute the international codification of the ATA […]
Senator Dick Gordon welcomed the enactment into law of a measure increasing the penalties for those people who are found to commit perjury or make false testimony under oath before the court or other legal proceedings. Gordon, who chairs the Senate justice and human rights committee, hailed the signing of Republic Act (RA) 11594 which […]
Any proposal to write into the 2022 national budget a provision making COVID-19 vaccination a requisite for receiving DSWD aid such the 4Ps stipend will penalize the “jabless jobless,” Senator Joel Villanueva said. “Kung mayroon man pong ganoon na panukala, I think it will be dead on arrival in the Senate,” said Villanueva, chairman of […]