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Senator Bam Aquino called on the government to strengthen microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the country to give millions of Filipinos a better alternative from loan sharks and other informal lenders that burden them with unreasonable and high interest rates. “Dapat palakasin ng pamahalaan ang ating microfinance institutions upang tuluyan nang magwakas ang pagdepende ng […]
Senator Loren Legarda announced that the Paris Agreement on Climate Change will enter into force for the Philippines on Earth Day, April 22, 2017, one year after it signed the Treaty together with more than a hundred nations. The Philippines becomes the 138th state party to the Agreement after the Philippine Mission to the […]
Senator Sonny Angara is encouraging out-of-school youth to take advantage of the new law that included them among the beneficiaries of the government’s Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES), which provides short-term job opportunities to help them pursue and continue their education. “Higit na nangangailangan ng tulong ang ating mga out-of-school youth […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Tuesday greeted President Rodrigo Duterte a happy 72nd birthday and asked Filipinos to become Partners for Change as a gift to the President. Pimentel, President of the ruling PDP Laban party of which President Duterte is the Chairman, also pledged that their party remains solidly behind the latter […]
Campaigning is like a stage play. You’ve got the university classrooms as the stage, candidates as the actors, campaign support team as the crew, and of course the voters (students) as the audience that they all need to please. In several universities and schools in the Philippines, it’s campaign season for their student council elections. […]
Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III reported a productive Senate in the first two and a half months of the year with two bills enacted and 45 other bills and three resolutions pending passage before Congress takes its first recess. Pimentel lauded colleagues for working overtime to fast-track the enactment of laws that would improve […]
The banana industry has been sagging for a time but it has grown to about a $1.5 billion dollar industry and employs about 500,000 people. While there has been some improvement based on data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that shows that banana production has increased from 8.8 million metric tons in 2014 to […]
“We never know the worth of water, till the well is dry. This is probably one of the most overused adages about water, understandably as it encapsulates the continuing challenge of water security and sustainability”, said Senator Loren Legarda in a World Water Day event. According to Legarda, “water is a basic need yet […]
Senator Bam Aquino met with scientists and other stakeholders to tackle and iron out the priority measures of the Committee on Science and Technology, which he chairs. “Ngayong naipasa na ng kumite ang libreng internet sa mga pampublikong lugar, sunod naman nating tututukan ang Balik Scientist Bill at Innovative Startup Act para matulungan ang […]
The House committee on indigenous cultural communities (ICCs) and indigenous peoples (IPs) chaired by Rep. Nancy Catamco (2nd District, North Cotabato) recently approved a substitute bill which seeks to institutionalize the training of IP health workers (IPHWs) to strengthen the health care system in cultural and indigenous communities. The bill is in line with […]