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Seventeen years of scrutinizing the national budget has saved the Filipino people at least P300 billion, Senator Panfilo Lacson disclosed. Lacson, a watchdog of the national budget, said this amount in public funds could have been lost to corruption had he not kept his guard up. “Sa loob ng 17 taon na ako senador ng […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) welcomed the easing of restrictions following the recent decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to place the National Capital Region (NCR) under Alert Level 2 from November 5 to 21, 2021. Tourism Chief Berna Romulo-Puyat hailed the decision, noting that it will […]
Mayor Vico Sotto lauded Barangay San Antonio (BSA), Pasig led by its chairman Raymond Lising for sustaining its “Basura to Ayuda” program which he said should be imitated by other barangays in the city. “Napaka-gandang initiative ang ‘Basura to Ayuda’, sana ay ma-expand pa natin sa ibang mga barangay ng lungsod Pasig. Magandang ehemplo talaga ito ng Barangay San Antonio, sina Kap. Raymond Lising marami silang […]
A leader of the House of Representatives urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to exempt select few projects from the election spending ban that comes with the 2022 polls. Civil Service and Professional Regulation Committee chair and Iligan City Representative Frederick Siao said the still undisbursed special risk allowance (SRA), compensation, and benefits of healthcare […]
“Triple ingat.”This was the appeal of Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles to local government units after a fire in a Department of Health building in Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur destroyed more than 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses recently. A Department of Interior and Local Government memorandum also states that vaccines should be administered within three […]
The AGRI party-list said it will push for the creation of a dedicated scholarship fund in the next administration for deserving students who want to study agriculture or aquaculture to complement the existing free tertiary education law. “Sa ating palagay ay hindi nakukuha ng agriculture, as a field of study, ang suporta na dapat binibigay […]
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go urged communities to be extra careful and vigilant by strengthening their fire safety efforts following the enactment of the Bureau of Fire Protection Modernization Act of 2021, which he principally authored and co-sponsored in the Senate, last September. The law mandates the BFP to implement a modernization program which will be […]
A leader of the House of Representatives urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to remove the additional requirement of acquiring a certification of completion of the comprehensive driver’s education (CDE) for people renewing their driver’s licenses. In filing House Resolution 2425, Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez said the CDE will […]
A P217-million low-rise housing project for city hall employees will soon stand at the local government-owned lot in Barangay San Isidro, Jaro, Iloilo City. The partnership project between the city government of Iloilo and SM Development Corporation will stand in the 2, 741 square meter area inside the Uswag Subdivision. “After these units are already […]
Better to spare the life of a criminal than to wrongly execute an innocent person. On this note, Senator Panfilo Lacson changed his stance on the death penalty for heinous crimes, even as he pushed for life imprisonment and penal reforms as a better alternative. “Mas matimbang ang ma-save ang buhay ng wrongly convicted. So […]