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The House of Representatives has ratified the bicameral conference report reconciling the disagreeing provisions of House Bill 8869 and Senate Bill 1950, which both seek to reduce electricity rates by allocating the net national government share from the Malampaya Natural Gas Project for the payment of the stranded contract costs and stranded debts of the […]
Outgoing chairman of the Metro Manila Development Committee at the House of Representatives Winnie Castelo has recommended that the chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) should have a fixed term of office. “The MMDA is no longer a coordinating body of the 17 cities and towns, as originally conceived and planned by authors of the law […]
The Committee on Metro Manila Development of the House of Representatives concluded, that both Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and Manila Water Company, Inc. (MWCI) must be held accountable for the water shortage, as well as for the failure to properly implement contingency plans to stop the adverse effects of the water shortage to […]
The one week extension on the closure of the Tandang Sora flyover in Quezon City has enabled authorities to make the needed traffic rerouting and the installation of U-turn slots to allow for a smooth flow of traffic. On the instance of Quezon City Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte and Quezon City 2nd District Rep. Winnie […]
A “sigh of relief” for consumers. This was according to Quezon City 2nd District Rep. Winnie Castelo who is also the chair of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development regarding the recent passage of the Rice Tariffication Bill, which aims to lift the quantitative restriction on rice imports and removes the monopoly of the […]
With policemen taking the flak for wrongly implementing the government’s drive against ‘Tambay’, ‘Tanods’ or barangay watchmen should do the job. This according to Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo, Chairman of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development. “Why not? Barangay tanods are well trained to deal against vagrancy and they fully know the terrain […]
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) may have gone overboard with its plan to impose mandatory annual surprise drug screening tests on teachers and school children starting from the fourth grade of mostly 10-year olds, said Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo. “While I fully support President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature anti-narcotics campaign which has been a […]
The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) should do its mandate of mitigating the regular ordeal of Metro Manila residents from floods by speeding up the bidding for the projects intended to reduce flooding. This according to Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo, Chairman of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, who has been going around […]
“This never-ending problem of flooding may already need the emergency powers of President Rodrigo Duterte.” This according to Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo, Chairman of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, who expressed his frustration over the recurring flood problem during one of his many visits to affected areas and evacuation centers. “The details […]
The bane of mobile phones users in the sudden loss of their top up credits or the ‘nakaw load’ will soon end with the proposed bill of Quezon City Rep. Winnie Castelo to bar telecommunications companies from imposing expiry dates on load credits. Prepaid credit expiry is a form of robbery of consumers since the […]