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The bicameral conference committee on the bill providing free irrigation services to small farmers has reconciled the disagreeing provisions of the versions of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food and head of the Senate panel, said the bicameral conference committee on […]
The House committee on overseas workers affairs chaired by Rep. Jesulito Manalo (Party-list, ANGKLA) has approved House Bill 6138 seeking to grant travel tax exemption to dependents of married or solo parent overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). The bill seeks to amend Sections 3 and 35 of the Republic Act (RA) No. 8042, otherwise known […]
Unless its ill-equipped and undermanned Internal Affairs Service (IAS) is modernized, the Philippine National Police’s efforts to rid their ranks of scalawags – which is said to make up two percent of the 180,000-man force – will not succeed, Senator Grace Poe said. Poe, who has publicly declared her full support to the institutional […]
Senator Loren Legarda stressed the importance of protecting the country’s coastal resources and having a comprehensive water resource management program. Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committees on Finance and Climate Change, made the statement during the plenary debates on the proposed 2018 budget of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). In response […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is calling on executive officials to address ambiguities surrounding the utilization of the P198 billion Malampaya Fund to ensure that the remaining funds will be spent in a transparent manner in accordance with the law. Under Presidential Decree 910, royalties from the Malampaya natural gas facility are to be used exclusively […]
Senator Grace Poe batted for the inclusion of an “anti-passport price increase” provision in the 2018 budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in order to freeze the fee for the travel document even if its validity will be extended to 10 years pursuant to a new law. “We can add one line […]
Senator Joel Villanueva lauded the latest achievement of the Philippines by being the first country to meet all the requirements of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). The EITI is an internationally recognized framework and practice that monitors revenue and public benefit from mining and other extractive resources. According to the ‘Validation’ report which […]
“The new law has stiffer penalties to protect consumers. It provides that merchants who issue Gift Certificates (GCs) in violation of the law can be slapped up to a million pesos in fines, obligated to reimburse the total value of GCs to holders and ordered that their authority to issue GCs be suspended or […]
Senator Loren Legarda ensured that more funds have been allocated for the quick recovery and rehabilitation of war-torn Marawi City under the proposed 2018 National Budget. Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, said that aside from the budget under the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (NDRRM) Fund for Marawi’s rehabilitation, the […]
Government should start treating kitchen equipment as a basic education facility that can be used to feed kids in school and to teach them home economics courses, Senator Grace Poe stressed. Poe said there is a huge backlog in food preparation and storage equipment in public schools “which in turn hamper the latter’s mission […]