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The Senate approved today on third and final reading a landmark bill that would help accelerate universal access to tertiary education by providing tuition subsidies and financial assistance to students in state universities and colleges (SUCs) and private higher learning and vocational institutions. Senate Bill No. 1304 or the “Free Higher Education for All Act” […]
Those blocking the confirmation of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Gina Lopez should rethink their opposition to the environment chief because she is just doing her job. This according to President Rodrigo Duterte, who on Saturday defended Lopez while taking a swipe at the mining industry for the damage it has caused […]
With the Philippines having one of the highest incidences of breast cancer in Southeast Asia, Rep. Sol Aragones of the third district of Laguna has proposed a law that would establish a free early detection program for women to prevent deaths from the dreaded affliction. “Breast cancer is the number one type of cancer among […]
Senator Joel Villanueva has called for the immediate passage of significant labor measures in light of the current survey results of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) estimating a big increase on the number of jobless Filipinos in the last quarter of 2016. The survey reports that 25.1 percent of the 1,500 adult respondents have no […]
Senator Sonny Angara has joined the calls for the immediate passage of a bill that aims to establish a national mental health policy in the country to ensure that mental health care is made available even to ordinary Filipinos. In his co-sponsorship speech of Senate Bill 1354, Angara stressed that the government should heed the […]
The implementation of a free tuition policy in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) would significantly improve the financial position of working-class households that are struggling to cope with the high cost of tertiary education, Senator Win Gatchalian said on Wednesday as he scored critics for attempting to brand the policy as “anti-poor”. In a statement, […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III filed a bill for mandatory training of Filipino college students for their possible mobilization in the service of the nation during times of emergencies and contingencies in the form of natural and man-made calamities and external and internal security threats. Senate Bill 1322, filed by Pimentel on February 9, […]
With the Senate now conducting hearings on Senate Bill No. 1302, which seeks to extend the legislative franchise of Smart, the wireless subsidiary of PLDT, Inc., Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III is urging the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to step in and direct the country’s telcos to adopt Mobile Number Portabilty (MNP) to spur […]
The House committees on government reorganization and on science and technology are now jointly consolidating several proposals to create a Philippine space development and utilization policy and a Philippine Space Agency (PSA) in response to the growing need for a more secure and independent access to space. The two committees recently approved the creation […]
The time has come to foster greater competition in the domestic renewable energy industry to lower electricity costs for consumers, Senator Win Gatchalian declared on Monday. “Swift technological developments have brought us to the point where renewable energy sources can match the production and cost efficiency of conventional power sources such as coal, hydro, and […]