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Senator Joel Villanueva expressed readiness to tackle the proposal to create the Department of Overseas Filipinos, as the Committee on Labor, Employment, Human Resources and Development is currently on standby amid the proposal to balance the bills creating new departments with the measure rightsizing the bureaucracy. “We’ve been meeting with our counterparts, and doing our […]
Senator Grace Poe said thousands of abandoned children could find new families with secure yet less stringent domestic adoption process in place. In the sponsorship speech of her measure, Senate Bill No. 1070 or the Domestic Administrative Adoption bill, Poe said it’s high time to do away with the judicial phase of the adoption process, […]
The Baguio City government has sworn in 604 members of its “Disiplina” (discipline) brigade from the 128 barangays who will ensure public compliance to the minimum health and safety protocols against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mayor Benjamin Magalong, who is also the “Disiplina Muna” (discipline first) ambassador of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), said the […]
Learn from the past so we can prepare for the future. This according to Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) National President and Quirino Gov. Dax Cua, who on Wednesday reiterated the need to develop and adopt a “national-local playbook” that will help the country deal with pandemics while it simultaneously deals with […]
By ISTRATEHIYA Electoral Campaigns Team Are you a political officer, or do you work for somebody planning to run for senator? Is he or she already a senator, and running for reelection? Is he or she presently occupying a different post, in the public or private sector, and planning to run for a seat in […]
To prevent unlawful arrests and planting of evidence as alleged in the case of peasant organizer Amanda Echanis, Senator Kiko Pangilinan wants the police to wear body cameras during police operations. “Proteksyon ito ng publiko sa maaaring pang-aabuso ng kapangyarihan at karahasan ng mga pulis tulad ng pagtanim ng ebidensya, illegal na pag-aresto at maging […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) recently received close to P12 million worth of food and non-food relief items, equipment, and rescue boats from the Qatar Red Crescent Society (RCS) for its relief and rehabilitation operations for the recent typhoons that devastated the country, such as Rolly and Ulysses. Senator Dick Gordon, PRC chair and CEO, […]
Amid the celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Senator Win Gatchalian stressed the need to institutionalize accessible and disability-responsive education services nationwide. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture pointed out that before the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hit the country, access to education was already a challenge […]
The city of Borongan in Eastern Samar is requiring all persons within its borders transacting at any public and private establishment to present a QR (quick response) code to boost contact tracing. After a series of technical reviews, name encoding, and data sorting, the city government officially implemented the QR code system on November 30 […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte said Monday that last week’s vote by the United Nation (UN) Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND)’s to delete cannabidiol (CBD) from its list of most dangerous drugs should prompt the House committee on health to take urgent action on his proposal to legalize the production and international marketing of this […]