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Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is hopeful of a no-nonsense government drive against illegal online gaming this 2023, following the assurance last month by Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy that his office would shut down—in tandem with gaming regulators and law enforcers—illicit gambling websites, and then throw the books […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has said the broad popular support for President Marcos’ pet initiative Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) should convince its critics to give this House-approved investment vehicle a chance to prove its worth as soon as the Senate passes its own version after the 19th Congress reopens this January following its month-long yearend […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte wants the funding for small business loan program to go to building job-intensive tourism infrastructure. Villafuerte made the proposal after the Small Business Corp. (SBCorp) reported that travel and tourism-related micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) availed of just P329 million worth of financing assistance. “Travel and tourism-related MSMEs availed […]
Camarines Sur Rep. and National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte is giving a thumbs up to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (PBBM) and his economic managers for providing instant financial relief to ordinary consumers reeling from continued, mostly imported, elevated inflation with twin directives designed to hold off scheduled increases this 2023 in the […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte is in favor of legalizing the operations of small-scale miners. “The legalization of small-scale mining is definitely a lot better way of monitoring the operations of these miners, because it certainly is far more difficult for the DENR and MGB to track the activities of small-scale miners if they continue operating […]
Camarines Sur Rep. and National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte is reminding mobile phone users of the country’s estimated 150 million Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards to register their cellphone numbers within the deadline to avoid the automatic deactivation of their SIM numbers. Villafuerte at the same time expressed the hope that the Department of […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte urged Filipinos to give the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund a try assuring the public that lawmakers will work hard to come up with the “perfect” version of the bill. “Our people should give it a try and let the Congress come up with a bill acceptable to the people and with […]
The resolute push of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in his just-concluded trip to Brussels, Belgium for wealthy nations in Europe and the rest of the First World to compensate high-risk countries for “loss and damage” from planet warming has buttressed his already growing stature as the champion of developing economies seeking compensation from the […]
With the unending government problem of providing interim shelter to millions of Filipinos dislocated by one calamity after another, Camarine Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has called for the inclusion in the priority list of bills for approval this first regular session of the 19th Congress a measure establishing disaster-resilient evacuation centers nationwide for the benefit of underprivileged […]
Amid efforts by congressional leaders to fast-track the bicameral conference committee (bicam) deliberations on next year’s proposed P5.26-trillion General Appropriations Act (GAA), CamSur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is hoping this budget panel would be able to realign outlays for certain state offices and programs to bankroll, among others, the Libreng Sakay free bus and train rides in Metro Manila along with the […]