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Senate President Chiz Escudero sees the entry or more investments into the country and the retention of existing investors with the passage of the amendments to Republic Act 11534 or the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act. A priority measure of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the bill dubbed CREATE to Maximize Opportunities […]
Senator Bong Go continues to support and advocate for local development projects to uplift the lives of Filipinos and bring public services closer to communities. Being already an adopted son of Pangasinan province, Go visited San Fabian, Pangasinan to inspect a Super Health Center and provide aid to displaced workers where he was also declared […]
Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez led the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Bacolod City and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region VI to officially launch the Yakap Bayan Program. The MOA was signed by Benitez, DSWD Region VI Regional Director Atty. Carmelo Nochete, DSWD FO VI- STO Head Russel […]
Speaker Martin Romualdez met with 27 provincial governors recently to enlist their help in a whole-of-government approach to fight poverty and other problems the nation and their communities are facing. The meeting was also attended by former Congressman Anton Lagdameo, who is special assistant to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., giving the governors the opportunity to […]
Cong. Wilbert “Manoy” T. Lee welcomed the outpouring of support from individuals, personalities, groups and netizens in demanding the Department of Health (DOH) to fast-track the implementation of more increases in Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) benefits and the inclusion of costly diagnostic tests and scans in the state health insurer’s benefit packages. During the […]
Rizal 4th District Rep. Fidel Nograles renewed his call for the passage of a bill that would create a body tasked with conservation and management of the 500-kilometer-long Sierra Madre. This, after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday called attention to deforestation in the Sierra Madre, which he saw during an aerial inspection over Marikina […]
May the 1987 Constitution prevail, and finally end the ordeal of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC). This was the hope aired recently by Senator Robin Padilla at the hearing of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights on the KOJC situation at the Sangguniang Panlungsod in Davao City. “Sana, ang maging dulo nitong […]
Senator Raffy Tulfo urged the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to investigate a former mayor in Davao del Sur along with others for alleged graft and corrupt practices. During the recent hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Services which Tulfo chairs, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) revealed that up to […]
In the fight against hunger and to offer a glimmer of hope to financially struggling Filipinos, Senator Bong Go has embarked on a compassionate mission to provide nourishment to those in dire need. Central to this effort are the feeding programs conducted by Go’s Malasakit Team for medical frontliners, indigent patients and their watchers at […]
Two panels of the congressional Commission on Appointments (CA) are scheduled to conduct separate confirmation hearings on September 10, for a new member of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) and three ambassadors. Surigao del Sur Representative Johnny Pimentel said the CA’s committee on foreign affairs chaired by Senator Jinggoy Estrada will pore over President Ferdinand […]