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A free trip await Antiqueños in Metro Manila who will take the maiden voyage of the roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel owned by Starlite Ferries, Inc. from Batangas to Antique on February 2. “Starlite will be providing a free trip for Antiqueños who had been displaced from their work in Metro Manila due to the coronavirus disease […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has supported the call by economic managers for Congress to focus on “doable” legislation to attract foreign direct investments (FDIs) and accelerate economic recovery, as he fretted that the revival of the Charter Change (Cha-Cha) initiative at this time would only sidetrack national efforts to overcome the coronavirus pandemic and save […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is seeking the institutionalization of effective parenting that will build the knowledge and skills of parents and parent substitutes to provide quality care during the critical stages of learners’ development. Gatchalian filed Senate Bill No. 1985 or the Parent Effectiveness Service (PES) Program Act which aims to empower and capacitate parents and […]
Aiming to improve the administration of justice in the country, Senator Dick Gordon sponsored before the plenary the committee report on a proposed measure that would ensure the protection and security of the members of the Bench and the entire judiciary. “Today, I am sponsoring another breakthrough bill for the judiciary. The killing of 34 […]
The House of Representatives approved on second reading a measure providing a 25-percent discount to the personal income taxes (PIT) of medical frontliners. The chamber passed through voice voting House Bill 8259 or proposed Handog Sa Mga Bayaning Lumaban Kontra COVID-19 Act, which provides income tax relief to medical frontliners for taxable year 2020 as […]
To prepare for its coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine procurement program, the city government of Legazpi has rented a cold storage facility that can store the vaccines on arrival, the Legazpi Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) said. Legazpi City Mayor Noel Rosal, City IATF chairman, said they have partnered […]
Deputy Speaker and Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abante Jr. on Wednesday expressed support for efforts to amend the economic provisions of the Constitution, and said that the move would allow the country to be more “flexible” and enable it to better respond to global economic trends––a position echoed by the members of the government’s […]
The House of Representatives approved on second reading a measure seeking to lower the height requirement for applicants to the Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). The chamber, through voice voting, passed House Bill 8261, or the proposed PNP, BFP, […]
The Philippine Red Cross reached another milestone with the use of the Saliva RT-PCR testing for COVID-19, which, Senator Dick Gordon said, will democratize testing and detection of the disease. At the official launching of the new testing system that the Department of Health has recently approved for use in the Red Cross’ molecular laboratories, […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said the mandatory registration of prepaid SIM cards is a potential mechanism that will aid the government crackdown on the online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC). Gatchalian explained that the absence of a SIM card registration law is one of the barriers that law enforcers face when running after child cybersex offenders […]