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Tricycle drivers and operators expressed their gratitude to former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Bong Go for bringing their concerns to President Rodrigo Duterte. In his message during the Tricycle Operators and Drivers Associations (TODA) Summit at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City, NCR-TODA president Ismael Sevilla said the idea for the summit started […]
President Rodrigo Duterte has endorsed senatorial candidates anew for the 2019 midterm elections after initially backing three administration bets. In an interview at the Tricycle Operators and Drivers’ Association (TODA) summit in Pasay City, Duterte endorsed the candidacies of incumbent senators Sonny Angara and Cynthia Villar. He also endorsed the senatorial bids of Taguig Rep. […]
Apart from medicines for diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, Senator Sonny Angara will also study the possibility of exempting from the 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) all cancer medications and other available maintenance medicines in the market. Angara is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means that deliberated and made possible the VAT […]
Nurses and health workers need decent working conditions like security of tenure arising from permanent employer-employee relationships, funded plantilla positions in government medical facilities, updated increases in salaries and benefits, among other things that protect of their rights and promote their welfare. This according to Dr. Leah Paquiz, elected representative of ANG NARS Party List […]
The Department of Agriculture‘s (DA) new National Farmers and Fishermen Database (NFFD) is long overdue and should help the government improve its efforts to help the sector, according to House Committee on Agriculture and Food chair and ANAC-IP Rep. Jose T. Panganiban, Jr., who on Wednesday lauded the DA’s newest “hi-tech” initiative. “Dapat dati pa […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has expressed intent to share its Boracay rehabilitation experience and strategies with other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states. “We wish to share the Philippines’ experience in the rehabilitation of our top sun-and-beach tourism destination, the island of Boracay,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said in her speech during […]
Former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Bong Go has found a supporter in Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. Marañon has announced his endorsement of Go’s senatorial bid along with three reelectionists in the coming May 13 midterm polls. “Bong Go. He can really help us since President Rodrigo Duterte still has three years […]
Senator Koko Pimentel III is highlighting the need to address the growing clamor for barangay (village) officials to become regular government employees so that they could receive monthly salaries and benefits. Pimentel said barangay officials have a crucial role to play as “front liners” of the government. “Barangay officials have a crucial role to play […]
Senator Win Gatchalian urged the members of the bicameral conference committee for the 2019 General Appropriations Act to allot funding for the construction of 56 additional Bahay Pag-asa (BPA) centers nationwide. Gatchalian made the call after the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) revealed that there are only 58 operational BPAs in the country. The […]
Senator Sonny Angara is pushing for the granting of a one-time general amnesty or condonation of tax liabilities by local water districts to allow them to use their savings for the improvement of services and prevent any increase in water rate charges. Introduced by Angara, Senate Bill No. 2136 otherwise known as the Condonation of […]