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VILLAFUERTE BACKS PALACE FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVES

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has given his full backing to the comprehensive action plan that President Duterte had approved to strengthen the domestic economy, stabilize food supplies and prices, and provide social protection to vulnerable sectors in a bid to stem the fallout from Russia’s war on Ukraine. Villafuerte backed the set of initiatives […]

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VILLAFUERTE TO DOE: SET SPR PLAN IN MOTION

Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has said the global oil price spiral triggered by the Ukraine-Russia conflict should rouse the Department of Energy (DOE) to “put its money where its mouth is” and finally set the national strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) plan in motion instead of just endlessly talking about it. With oil prices now […]

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ALLOWANCE FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS AMID COVID PUSHED

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has expressed hope that President Rodrigo Duterte would soon green-light the measure giving COVID-related benefits to the country’s healthcare workers (HCWs), retroactive to July last year, and for them to continue receiving such extra pay for as long as the state of public health emergency stays. Villafuerte issued this statement […]

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FUNDING FOR SRA OF HEALTH WORKERS ASSURED

Public and private healthcare workers (HCWs) are likely to get mandatory and continued special risk allowance (SRA) in future public health emergencies as both legislative chambers moved closer to giving their final nod before the Feb. 5 congressional adjournment to a measure providing such extra pay to these medical frontliners, according to Camarines Sur Rep. […]

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VILLAFUERTE TO CONGRESS: NURSE SHORTAGE POSSIBLE

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has urged his congressional colleagues to help address the imminent shortage of nurses by passing in the remaining session weeks of the Legislature a bill that would encourage these healthcare workers to stay in the Philippines through reforms in nursing education. “The bill should be acted upon with urgency amid […]

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BP2 BILL TO BOOST ECONOMY, DEVELOP RURAL AREAS

Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has called on fellow lawmakers to help boost the country’s economic reemergence by passing the proposed Balik Probinsiya, Balik Pagasa (BP2) bill that aims to boost development and create more jobs in the countryside.  “I urge my colleagues in the Congress to make a final push for the passage of the Balik Probinsiya bill […]

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LAW FOR HEALTHCARE WORKERS’ BENEFITS PUSHED

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has backed President Rodrigo Duterte’s release of P1.185 billion for the special risk allowance (SRA) of medical frontliners as a measure to recognize the sacrifices made by them in the fight against the lingering pandemic and urged lawmakers to do their part by writing a law that would institutionalize such […]

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VILLAFUERTE TO CONGRESS: HELP FIGHT CYBERCRIMES

Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte is urging the Congress to act swiftly on a measure passed by a House committee that is meant to add more teeth to the efforts of regulatory agencies to combat cybercrimes by penalizing social engineering schemes, commonly known as “phishing,”  that lead to illegal financial activities.  Villafuerte said the committee-approved consolidated […]

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VILLAFUERTE TO LOCAL EXECS: FLEX FISCAL AUTONOMY

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on the incoming crop of local elective executives in 2022 to focus on crafting their respective development masterplans that would further strengthen their political and fiscal autonomy in view of the expanded roles that they would have to perform as a result of their respective governments’ increased share […]

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DMW TO BETTER SERVE OFWS, SAYS VILLAFUERTE

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has expressed the hope that the new department dedicated to serving migrant Filipinos will streamline and speed up services for the country’s overseas workers, especially those in distress.  Villafuerte said that under the newly signed law creating the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) need not go […]