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Just a couple of days before the Farmers’ and Fisherfolk’s Month ended yesterday, the Senate on Tuesday passed on third and final reading the Sagip Saka Bill with a unanimous vote of 21-0. Senate Bill No. 1281, also known as the Sagip Saka Bill, seeks to provide tax incentives to the private sector that […]
Senator Cynthia Villar pushed for the protection of the Philippine Rise as the latest addition to Philippine territory. The chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and on Agriculture and Food, said “the territory of the Philippines nearly doubled in size with the addition of resource-rich waters and spawning ground of […]
After both houses of Congress ratified the reconciled version of the bill making tuition in public colleges free, Malacañang should include the cost of the program in the 2018 national budget. The call was made by Senator Ralph Recto, author of the bill, who said that without funds to bankroll it, the bill, even […]
Senator Loren Legarda said that the Paris Agreement on climate change will be mere ink on paper without a roadmap of what government agencies and the private sector must do to help achieve the goals of the treaty. Speaking at the Tripartite Conference on the Philippine Roadmap for the Paris Accord at the Manila […]
Senator Nancy Binay called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Marawi City officials and residents, and the media to confirm the reported use of child warriors by the Maute Group. “The reported participation of children in the ongoing conflict in Marawi is seriously alarming. I’m asking the AFP, local officials, residents, and […]
As government troops and members of the ISIS-inspired Maute group and Abu Sayyaf engage in gunfights for the sixth day after the latter placed parts of Marawi City under siege, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) continues to extend humanitarian assistance to the city’s internally-displaced persons (IDPs). Senator Dick Gordon, concurrent PRC Chairman and chief […]
Malacañang has been urged to rush a “humanitarian army” to Marawi City and to nearby places where the “spillover of a massive wave of evacuees” are straining local resources to grant them comfort and aid, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto said there are billions of pesos in unspent Calamity Fund waiting […]
The House Special Committee on Food Security has opened discussions on two bills requiring restaurants to donate to charitable institutions their leftover food that are still fit for consumption. House Bill (HB) 4675 or the proposed “Mandatory Food Surplus Donation Act of 2016” authored by Reps. John Marvin “Yul Servo” Nieto (3rd District, Manila) […]
House Speaker Bebot Alvarez recently witnessed the signing of several agreements between Guangxi state-owned companies and local investors. This transpired during the China (Guangxi)-Philippines Business Matching Seminar for Entrepreneurs held at the Makati Shangri-la Hotel. Alvarez was among 12 Filipino and Chinese government officials and business leaders who witnessed the signing of the deals. […]
The House Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples chaired by Rep. Nancy A. Catamco (2nd District, North Cotabato) has approved the creation of a technical working group (TWG) that will finalize the bills seeking to protect and promote the rights of indegenous peoples (IPs) affected by mining operations in ancestral domains. The […]