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One way to fight crime and keep communities safe is through “extra judicial funding” which will modernize courts and equip public attorneys and prosecutors with the resources that will reduce case backlogs and move the wheels of justice quickly, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said “manpower and material” lack in […]
Senator Cynthia Villar urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to enhance welfare protection for overseas Filipino workers especially domestic workers bound for abroad citing the case of OFW Joramie Garcia Torres who was scalded with boiling oil and beaten up by her Malaysian employer. Villar […]
Senator Sonny Angara is pushing for the passage of a bill that seeks to put in place tighter security measures in all colleges and universities in the country. Senate Bill 946 mandates all higher education institutions and technical vocational institutions to establish a Crime Prevention Committee to formulate policies and strategies that would help […]
Senator Loren Legarda urged proponents of the National Greening Program (NGP) to support the weaving and biofuel industries in the Philippines by producing our own silk, cotton, and nipa mangroves in the country. Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, made the statement during the budget hearing of the proposed 2018 budget of […]
Senator Loren Legarda called on authorities to implement ecological solid waste management plans and strictly enforce regulations on garbage segregation and disposal. Legarda, principal sponsor and author of the Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) Act, made the statement following a report by the environmental group Greenpeace that cites the Philippines as the third worst […]
Twenty-five future agri-entrepreneurs and farm business owners graduated from the 10-day facilitators training at the Farm Business Schools of Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance (SIPAG), in partnership with the Agricultural Training Institute of the Department of Agriculture Region 1V-A. Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Senate Agriculture & Food Committee, assured […]
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto called for the initial doubling of the number of permanent job items in the Department of Social Welfare and Development – which he called the “contractualization capital” of the bureaucracy – due to its high number of temporary employees. Recto said the agency only has 2,842 regular employees […]
To ensure humanitarian help for the most vulnerable when disaster strikes in any of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has proposed to forge a partnership with the ASEAN and seeks to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding between the […]
Senator Loren Legarda has vowed to restore the one billion-peso budget of the Shared Service Facilities (SSF) Project of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which intends to increase the productivity of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) by giving them access to efficient technologies, skills, knowledge, and systems. At the hearing for […]
At the Senate hearing of the proposed 2018 budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros pushed for the “universality” of social pension for all senior citizens and immediately for the “most senior” and indigent among them. Hontiveros said that there should be universality of social pension for […]