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Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has committed to provide security of land tenure for around 10,000 informal settler families (ISF) by 2022, under the city’s Local Shelter Plan 2020-2022. The Local Shelter Plan 2020-2022 was presented by the Housing, Community Development and Resettlement Department (HCDRD) during the Quezon City Housing Board meeting on Friday. “One […]
Quezon City Rep. Precious Hipolito Castelo urged Congress yesterday to exempt facemasks, sanitizers and similar protective goods from import duties and local taxes amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) threat.Castelo, who is vice chairperson of the House committee on Metro Manila development, said exempting facemasks and other products like antiseptics from taxes could “assure adequate […]
House Minority Leader Bienvenido “Benny” Abante Jr. on Monday urged the national government to study the implementation of “drastic measures” to prevent a full-blown COVID-19 outbreak in Metro Manila after the Department of Health (DOH) confirmed new cases of COVID-19 infections. “At this point, all options should be on the table given that the National […]
Quezon City Rep. Precious Castelo is urging airlines and travel agencies to allow the free cancellation and rebooking of flights and tours to and in countries with confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19. “If passengers who have booked flights to these destinations are allowed to refund or rebook their tickets without any […]
As the country celebrates National Women’s Month this March, Senator Win Gatchalian also stressed on the need to curb teen pregnancy. Gatchalian zeroed in on teen pregnancy as it is considered a leading factor on why girls drop out of school. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) Annual Poverty Indicators Survey 2017, “marriage or […]
Senator Dick Gordon, Chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, slammed the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) for not acting promptly on the Bureau of Customs’ (BoC) report that a certain individual was caught for non-declaration of $700,000 money in cash in 2019. Gordon stressed that since the BoC has already notified AMLC, the latter should […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) will soon be taught again as a regular subject in schools as both houses of Congress approved the measure that will institutionalize GMRC and Values Education in the K-12 curriculum. On the part of the Senate, Gatchalian headed the bicameral conference which reconciled differences in […]
Senator Dick Gordon is pushing for the immediate implementation of Republic Act No. 11235 or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Law as the number of crimes committed by riding-in-tandem hitmen continue to rise. During the continuation of the investigation on the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) Law, Gordon, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and […]
With the country recording its first confirmed local transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), House Minority Leader and Manila Rep. Benny Abante Jr. on Sunday urged officials of the Department of Health (DOH) to be more transparent in its updates to the public, and to ensure that there are an adequate number of test […]
Good Manners and Right Conduct (GMRC) is set to return to the curriculum, as the bicameral report for the GMRC and Values Education Act bill was approved recently. Senate Majority Leader Migz Zubiri, principal author of the bill, stressed that GMRC is lacking in the current K-12 curriculum in both public and private institutions. The […]