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Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte has given his full backing to a Department of Education (DepEd) proposal for local government units (LGUs) to take the lead in the construction of school buildings in their respective localities, saying that LGUs are in a good position to speed up such infrastructure work to close the ever yawning […]
With next month’s effectivity of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the “Konektadong Pinoy Act,” Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte sees a “major leap forward” soon in President Marcos’ goal to bridge the digital divide by bringing in more overseas investors, connecting all of our nearly 11,000 remote and underserved barangays, and slashing internet costs by half in […]
Camarines Sur Gov. LRay Villafuerte has called for all-out backing by local government units (LGUs) for measures issued by President Marcos extending the rice import ban and assigning a pivotal role to LGUs in boosting the incomes of palay growers come harvest time while at the same cutting down the retail cost of rice for consumers. The senior vice […]
Camarines Sur LRay Villafuerte is pushing a sweeping reform of a nearly two-decade-old priority program of the Department of Health (DOH) that received almost ₱30 billion this year for building or improving health facilities, but which has, at this point, left this Department stuck with 300 idle or non-operational health centers out of almost 900 built thus […]
Amid the current budget season in the 20th Congress, Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte is batting for an extra outlay of almost P14 billion for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), so the government can start giving the monthly pension of P1,000 to about a million indigent and eligible senior citizens who are […]
Camarines Sur (CamSur) governor and former congressman LRay Villafuerte is looking forward to the seamless transfer of the National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) from the Office of the President (OP) to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), hoping this streamlining move would entail the continued “hassle-free” implementation of social protection programs for an […]
With the recent shake-up at the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Camarines Sur (CamSur) Governor LRay Villafuerte is making a last-minute appeal to newly named Transport Acting Secretary Giovanni Lopez to put on hold the scheduled cancellation by next month of Manila-Naga turboprop flights until such time that the DOTr will have undertaken its previously committed […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has underscored the need for the country to establish a corn research institute that would focus on increasing the productivity and quality of the country’s most important food next to rice. Under House Bill (HB) No. 7818, the proposed Philippine Corn Research Institute (PhilCorn), is tasked to modernize the corn industry and […]