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More than a year after the destruction left by Typhoon Ompong, the strongest typhoon to hit Luzon since 2010 and the strongest to make landfall in the Philippines since Typhoon Yolanda in 2013, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has enabled affected families in Cagayan get their lives back. Senator Dick Gordon, PRC chairman and CEO, […]
Senator Win Gatchalian expressed dismay over a report by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that only 30% percent of barangays nationwide, or an estimated 12,614 out of 42,045, are practicing segregation, emphasizing that the waste hierarchy of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ (3Rs) is a failure. “The 3Rs is a failure, yung reuse, reduce, […]
Quezon City Representative Precious Hipolito-Castelo yesterday called for the construction of the country’s first quarantine facility to help the country deal with situations such as the novel coronavirus threat. Hipolito-Castelo, vice chairman of the House Committee on Metro Manila Development, said there was an obvious struggle among authorities as to where they should quarantine persons […]
Laguna 3rd Representative Sol Aragones on Tuesday had taken up the cudgels for millions of viewers and thousands of workers who will be adversely affected by the closure of ABS-CBN. Aragones, who began her career as an ABS-CBN reporter before running for public office, reminded her colleagues at the House of Representatives that over 11,000 […]
With the growing number of persons under investigation (PUI) for infection with the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease (2019-nCoV ARD), the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) heightened its preparation by providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to its frontline staff and volunteers to ensure their safety while handling suspected 2019-nCoV ARD cases. “The Philippine Red Cross […]
If legitimate Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGO) companies only generated two jobs for Filipinos for every 10 available jobs in the sector last year, the trend could even be worse in illegal offshore gaming firms, according to Senator Joel Villanueva. “If legitimate POGO companies in this sector employ few Filipinos, we can only surmise as […]
The government is stepping up efforts to improve the quality of products and services produced in the country in order to boost demand, not only domestically, but globally with an increase in the budget of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 2020. To carry out initiatives intended to support this effort, Senator Sonny […]
No better. This is how Senator Win Gatchalian sees the Philippines’ performance in the forthcoming Programme for International Student Assessment 2021 (PISA 2021) if no significant reforms are implemented in the K-12 curriculum. In a policy forum evaluating the implementation of the K-12 program, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and […]
A veteran lawmaker at the House of Representatives said Congress has the mandate to act on the franchise renewal of broadcast giant ABS-CBN. Laguna Representative Sol Aragones said while she respects the decision of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to file a quo warranto petition asking the Supreme Court to revoke the legislative franchise […]
Congress is mandated do determine whether legislative franchises should be approved or not, and it should be given the opportunity to do so in the case of ABS-CBN. This was the gist of a statement issued by Laguna 3rd District Rep. Sol Aragones on Tuesday after the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) filed a […]