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Senate President Chiz Escudero said he owes his high performance rating to the hard work of his colleagues and the entire Senate institution, “who have all contributed to delivering results to the public they serve”. Escudero said the latest Pulse Asia survey where majority of Filipinos approved of his performance as one of the four […]
Civil Service Commission Chairperson Karlo Nograles was recently conferred the Gawad Lagablab Award for Government Service, a distinction given to alumni of the Philippine Science Highschool (PSHS) for their achievements in scientific research, the practice of their profession, and public service. In his acceptance remarks, Nograles, who graduated from PSHS in 1993, offered the honor […]
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa took a swipe at Abang Lingkod Party-list Representative Stephen Paduano for insisting his attendance in a supposed courtesy call of police officers with former President Rodrigo Duterte which is being linked to the death of three Chinese drug lords inside the Davao Penal Farm and Prison in August 2016. The […]
Senator Bong Go, chairperson of the Senate Committees on Sports as well as on Youth, expressed gratitude for the Senate’s ratification of the Bicameral Conference Committee Report on the Philippine National Games (PNG) Act which he principally sponsored and also authored. The report reconciles the disagreeing provisions of Senate Bill No. 2514 and House Bill […]
On the occasion of Elderly Filipino week, National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte is appealing to senators to pass this third and final session of the 19th Congress their counterpart to the House-passed measure on an expanded social safety net initiative granting a monthly stipend to all Filipinos 60 years of age and above–now numbering over 12 million–and not […]
The impending enactment of the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) bill would help employees without a degree take a step up in their professional careers, the chair of the House committee on labor and employment said. This was after the Senate recently passed on third and final reading its version of the […]
A total of 27 electric cooperatives (ECs) applied for state-funded loans to finance their capital expenditures (CapEx), among other projects, by end of August 2024, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) has reported. Latest data from the NEA Accounts Management and Guarantee Department (AMGD) showed that 22 ECs borrowed at least P780-million for their CapEx projects. […]
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano hailed the recent progress toward better support for barangay health workers (BHWs) after the sponsorship of the committee report for the Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers. “As frontliners of our primary healthcare system, our BHWs must be given sufficient incentives, benefits and most of all just compensation for all the […]
Senate President Chiz Escudero sees the move of the Philippines to enter into security agreements with its allies as an effective deterrence to the acts of aggression of China in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). On July 8, 2024, the Philippines signed the Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) with Japan in a bid to strengthen bilateral […]
Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chairperson Karlo Nograles on Tuesday expressed full optimism that the CSC will be on track to sustain its gains and further improve its various programs for the coming year after Congress approved its 2025 budget on Tuesday without any hitches. Nograles made the remark after the House Committee on Appropriations gave […]