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Senator Sonny Angara formally began his campaign for another six-year term in the Senate with the promise of continuing the “Alagang Angara” family legacy which is anchored on education, health, job generation, social pension for senior citizens, and stronger local government units and barangays. Angara joined the campaign kickoff in the vote-rich Pampanga organized by […]
Senator Sonny Angara is pushing for wide-ranging reforms to improve the services and facilities in all barangays across the country, as well as make barangay officials regular state employees entitled to fixed salaries and benefits. Angara, chair of the Committee on Local Government, said Senate Bill 2097, or the proposed Magna Carta for Barangays, he […]
Teaching personnel in state universities and colleges (SUCs) across the country will be able to receive this year part of their long-overdue salary adjustment with the approval of the 2019 national budget that included funding for job promotion, Senator Sonny Angara said. “The wait is over,” said Angara, vice chair of the Senate Committee on […]
Senator Sonny Angara has urged newly confirmed Civil Service Commission (CSC) Commissioner Aileen Lizada to help improve gender balance in the bureaucracy by ensuring 50 percent female representation in government as envisioned in Republic Act 9710 or the Magna Carta of Women. Angara made the appeal during the plenary session of the Commission on Appointments […]
Senator Sonny Angara is urging the House of Representatives to immediately pass its version of the bill institutionalizing the grant of a 20 percent fare discount to students. Senate has approved its own version of the measure as early as October last year, while the counterpart bill in the House has been approved on third […]
Senator Sonny Angara welcomed the approval on third and final reading of the bill converting Mandaue City into a lone congressional district, as well as several separate measures creating 11 new barangays in the provinces of Kalinga and Laguna. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Government, Angara sponsored House Bill 8511 separating Mandaue […]
The bicameral conference committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives has approved a bill seeking to institutionalize the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG), an incentive program meant to drive local government units (LGUs) to reach high standards of governance. Senator Sonny Angara, chairman of the Senate Committee on Local Government and sponsor […]
Senator Sonny Angara said Filipinos will soon have a better chance of survival from life-threatening diseases once the Universal Health Care (UHC) bill, which provides for free medical checkups and other preventive health services, becomes a law. According to Angara, preventive health services, one of the main proponents of the UHC, are intended to help […]
Barangay officials deserve not just honoraria but fixed salaries commensurate to their valuable contribution to the community as frontliners of government service. “Hindi makatarungan na ang mga taong hinalal ng taumbayan ay honorarium lang ang natatanggap,” (It is not fair that elected officials will only receive honoraria) Angara said. “Kung mayroong mga karapat-dapat na makatanggap […]
Senator Sonny Angara has filed a bill which seeks to give the Department of Health (DOH) the authority to increase the bed capacity of all public hospitals under its supervision in order to address the mismatch in occupancy and improve the quality of government health services. Under the present set-up, the department can only increase […]