IKOT.PH
Senator Sonny Angara is urging newly-appointed Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Gringo Honasan to fast-track the setting up of free internet access in the country’s state universities and colleges (SUC), a program which has been plagued by delays. Out of the country’s 112 SUCs, only 17 have been installed free Wi-Fi hotspots […]
Philippine micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) need to constantly innovate their products and services if they want to survive the global disruptions caused by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Senator Win Gatchalian has warned. Speaking at the recent 27th Metro Manila Business Conference, Gatchalian urged MSMEs to foster a culture of innovation in order to […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has filed a bill that aims to provide for additional allowances for faculty members of state universities and colleges (SUC), as he sought to improve the living conditions of teachers in higher education institutions. The bill providing additional benefits for teaching personnel in SUCs and state-run technical and vocational institutions is one […]
The day after his oath taking with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang, newly-elected Senator Bong Go spent time to visit the 344 families who have been displaced by fire in Bislig City, Surigao del Sur. It was reported that one person died due to cardiac arrest, while six were hurt when a big part of […]
Senators have started filing their bills providing President Rodrigo Duterte “with a deep pool of measures he can support and ask Congress to immediately pass when he delivers the State of the Nation Address,” reelected Senator Sonny Angara said. Angara urged Malacañang to choose what Senate proposals to officially back “so we can start the […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said oversight over the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 11202 or the Mobile Number Portability Act (MNPA) can be conducted to ensure the IRR conforms with the spirit of the law. “The NTC Memorandum Circular provides for too many grounds for an application for mobile number porting to […]
Bring back Montalban. This, according to Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles, is the prevailing sentiment of residents of Rodriguez, Rizal who want to restore the original name of the first class municipality still popularly known in the country as Montalban. The first-term legislator revealed on Wednesday that during his tenure as Assistant Provincial Administrator […]
Isabela 6th District Rep. Inno Dy on Tuesday vowed to spend his first year in office pushing for the passage of a measure rescheduling the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls from May 2020 to May 2023, stressing the need for barangay executives to serve full five-year terms to better serve their constituents and to […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is pushing for the diversification of bioethanol feedstock sources and improved production processes to help bring down barriers preventing the takeoff of biofuels in the country. In his speech during the recent Global Bioenergy Partnership event, Gatchalian recognized the importance of Republic Act No. 9367 or the Biofuels Act of 2006 in […]
While Congress will not bang the gavel until it convenes on July 22, the filing of pet bills for the First Regular Session of the 18th Congress has started Monday, July 1. In the past, staff members of senators start to line up on the eve of the first day of filing of bills and […]