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The mounting public outcry over incidents of animal cruelty, the latest of which was the brutal killing of a three-year-old Golden Retriever named Killua in CamSur, should be a “wake-up call” for the 19th Congress to toughen up laws promoting and protecting the welfare of all animals, LRay Villafuerte, a congressman representing the province and president of […]
With the new law expanding the grant of cash gifts not only to centenarians but to those who turn 80, 85, 90 and 95 as well, National Unity Party (NUP) president and Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has called on local government executives to assist the National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) and other concerned […]
After granting financial relief to vulnerable sectors such as the elderly and solo parents, Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte wants the government to accord economic succor, too, to “junior citizens” or Filipinos from the time they are born until they reach the age of 12, in the form of their free coverage under the National […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president and Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte wants Government to work closer with public telecommunications entities (PTEs) and private cybersecurity experts in strengthening the country’s digital infrastructure to best safeguard our over 105-million strong Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) database against hackers, amid the alarming spate of security breaches of official websites, […]
In the event that the three-year ban on the deployment of new overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Republic of Iraq is officially listed, National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has proposed that the Marcos government send only skilled Filipinos to that Middle Eastern country. Ambassador Charlie Pacana Manangan said at a recent hearing by […]
A week into this year’s celebration of National Teachers’ Month, CamSur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is asking the Congress to put on the front burner twin measures bumping up the pay and making permanent the teaching supplies’ allowance of some 800,000 public school teachers. Villafuerte made this appeal in support of President Marcos’ renewed commitment to deliver on his 2023 […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president and Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte sees the enactment of the law institutionalizing the “One Town, One Product” (OTOP) program as “timely” as it “dovetails” with a recent directive by President Marcos for concerned government agencies to implement programs and projects meant to develop and promote Philippine exports. Villafuerte said […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has welcomed the renewed commitment of President Ferdinand Marcos to modernize the country’s public transport system, as the congressman supported a government plan to bring back the suspended, foreign-funded flagship project on an over 600-kilometer (km) railway that will connect Metro Manila to Bicol and cut travel time between the […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has called on the Department of Health (DOH) to track down almost 130,000 licensed nurses who are believed jobless, underemployed or doing non-nursing jobs and then try hiring enough of them to fill the current gap, in lieu of the proposal by Secretary Teodoro Herbosa to employ board exam flunkers, […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on the Senate to consider passing after the congressional break the House-passed Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) that aims to give job security to our barangay health workers (BHWs) and thereby “de-politicize” their employment in local government units (LGUs). This way, BHWs qualified to receive a broad […]