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With the House of Representatives back in hybrid session after a two-week strict lockdown, Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte is pushing for the swift passage of a separate bill that seeks to grant every low-income Filipino household a subsidy of P10,000 as a way to spur growth in the fourth quarter by boosting domestic consumption, […]
The Senate is rushing legislation that will put a “mantle of protection” on some 1.5 million freelancers and gig economy workers whose numbers ballooned during the pandemic. Senator Joel Villanueva, the labor committee chair who is spearheading the codification of their rights, said freelancers are the most vulnerable from abuse and exploitation. Part of the […]
The Senate ratified the Bicameral Conference Committee Report of the disagreeing provisions of Senate Bill No. 1354 and House Bill No. 8268 or “An Act Increasing the Penalties for Perjury, Amending for the Purpose Articles 183 and 184 of Act No. 3815, As Amended, Otherwise Known as “The Revised Penal Code”. Senator Dick Gordon, Chairman […]
Senator Panfilo M. Lacson took the cudgels for retired career officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) as he pushed for an increase in their monthly pension and disability benefits, in exchange for their long years of looking after the welfare of Filipinos and the interests of the Philippines abroad. Lacson, in filing Senate […]
The city government of Alaminos has inaugurated a dialysis clinic that will serve not only the dialysis patients of the locality but also those from the first district of Pangasinan. The City Health Office (CHO) said the dialysis clinic can accommodate 13 patients simultaneously and also charges lower compared to other centers. “Priorities are residents […]
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved on third and final reading a bill that would define the tax rates for proprietary schools to allow them to avail of the 10-percent preferential rate on taxable income. With 202 affirmative votes, the chamber passed House Bill No. 9913, which seeks to clarify that the preferential tax rate […]
To address the impact of prolonged school closures because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Win Gatchalian has filed a bill that seeks to give struggling learners access to a free national remedial program, which includes well-systematized tutorial sessions. Under Senate Bill No. 2355, the program will be known as the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning […]
To serve our country-bound balikbayans and returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), through the directive of Senator Dick Gordon, mobilized PRC staff and volunteers to set up COVID-19 test booking booth at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminals 1, 2, and 3. Manila International Airport Authority general manager Eddie Monreal […]
Senator Nancy Binay recommended that free cluster testing for COVID-19 be done in high-density communities and in areas where cases of the coronavirus infection are high. According to Binay, given the government’s poor testing capacity, rationalizing the IATF’s and the DOH’s screening and testing strategies to cover more individuals is necessary in order to abate […]
The city government of Bacolod will soon deploy a second mobile vaccination bus to inoculate more residents against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The latest “VAX-i” bus, offered by the Yanson family-owned Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI), was unveiled in rites led by Mayor Evelio Leonardia at the Bacolod City Government Center grounds. “Your city government […]