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Senator Win Gatchalian is looking to craft comprehensive legislation to develop the local natural gas industry as the country braces for the impending end of the Malampaya Gas-to-Power Project. The Malampaya project supplies fuel to five natural gas plants with a total installed capacity of 3,211 MW. This amounts to 21.33% of the installed capacity […]
Senator Cynthia Villar called for a committee hearing to hear the updates on the rehabilitation being conducted in Boracay Island two months after the island’s closure. Villar, chair of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, said the committee supplemented rehabilitation efforts in the island by taking a closer look at the factors that significantly […]
Senator Sonny Angara has urged the Department on Education (DepEd) to ensure that all public and private kindergarten, elementary and high schools in the country are conducting prevention and intervention programs to address bullying in schools. Angara made the call after receiving data on child protection from DepEd which showed that a total of 19,672 […]
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon urged the creation of a single body that will take over the development and management of Boracay Island similar to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA). Drilon said this as he also pressed for the continuation of the demolition of what he called the “mother of all the violators in […]
Senator Sonny Angara has urged the government to intensify its jobs program that will help the youth land a job, as he laments the high youth unemployment rate in the country. “The country’s unemployment challenge is primarily a youth phenomenon. The JobStart Law is the government’s answer to youth unemployment. Ang target ng programang ito […]
Fish farmers need to learn the ropes on responsible and sustainable aquaculture to ensure abundant fish production meet rapidly growing fish demand all over the country and address food security, Senator Cynthia Villar said. Villar noted the speedy expansion of the aquaculture industry has compounding environmental problems caused by climate change, callous governance, and irresponsible […]
Senator Joel Villanueva, chairperson of the Senate committee on labor, employment, and human resources development, called on the government to address the job-skills mismatch in the country given the thousands of jobs to be generated this year under the Build, Build, Build program. “It has been our consistent call on the concerned government agencies – […]
To ensure “judicious, prudent, and sound economic planning” by the government, Senator Win Gatchalian wants to review the status, sustainability, and risks of projects under the Duterte administration’s “Build, Build, Build” (BBB) infrastructure program. In filing Senate Resolution No. 759, which calls for a Senate inquiry into the financial requirements of BBB, Gatchalian said: “There […]
The House of Representatives, voting 239–0 and without abstention, approved on third and final reading House Bill 7402 which would allow an employee in the private sector to work from an alternative workplace with the use of telecommunication or computer technologies through a flexible work arrangement. Principally authored by Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr., the […]
Senate Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship Chairperson Koko Pimentel III scored the delays in government efforts to bring in a third telecommunications player in the country and urged the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the member-agencies of the Oversight Committee for the Entry of a New Major Player in the Public Telecommunications Market […]