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The Senate passed on third and final reading a bill that would require motorcycles and scooters to have bigger license plates for easy identification in a bid to prevent motorcycle-riding criminals from easily getting away after committing a crime. Senate Bill No. 1397 or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act of 2017, authored by Senator […]
Following his proposal to rebuild Marawi City into a tourism destination to help it rise from the destruction brought by the ongoing armed conflict, Senator Dick Gordon underscored the need for a re-urbanization plan. Gordon said the rehabilitation of Marawi City should have the best master plan and should not be undertaken haphazardly to […]
The Senate Committee on Government Corporations and Public Enterprises conducted a hearing on bills seeking to amend Republic Act No. 8282 to give the state-run Social Security System (SSS) more powers to enable it to grow their funds. Senator Dick Gordon, committee chair, noted that the fund life of the SSS was shortened by […]
As government troops and members of the ISIS-inspired Maute group and Abu Sayyaf engage in gunfights for the sixth day after the latter placed parts of Marawi City under siege, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) continues to extend humanitarian assistance to the city’s internally-displaced persons (IDPs). Senator Dick Gordon, concurrent PRC Chairman and chief […]