'TOL VIEWS Senator Francis Tolentino A decade in the making, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is the world’s largest free-trade agreement that took effect for most member countries on Jan. 1, 2022. The RCEP promotes a free and open market that would provide greater...
TOL Views Senator Francis N. Tolentino As a principle and state policy, the 1987 Constitution declared the Philippines as a democratic and Republic State, in which sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them. The United Nations Human Rights Council, in its...
'TOL Views Senator Francis N. Tolentino The 1987 Constitution introduced ‘betrayal of public trust’ as a ground for impeachment for the President, Vice President, members of the Supreme Court, members of the Constitutional Commissions, and the Ombudsman. This is in addition to treason, bribery,...
'TOL Views Senator Francis N. Tolentino We are in a state of public health emergency by virtue of Proclamation No. 922. As such, we are all urged to act within the bounds of the law and to comply with the lawful directives and advisories to be issued by the appropriate government agencies to...
'TOL VIEWS Senator Francis Tolentino On Feb. 8, 2022, Tuesday, proclamation rallies held in different provinces of the archipelago echoed as starting guns to signal the dawn of the 2022 election race. Although the aspirants had been constantly in the public’s eye voicing out their vision and...
'TOL VIEWS Senator Francis Tolentino It is said that the wave of the COVID-19 virus would forever change the way we live our everyday lives. As the economy set to a halt for the first months of the enhanced community quarantine back in 2020, employers set out to establish remote working...
’TOL Views Senator Francis N. Tolentino About 400 universities and colleges in the United States have reportedly required foreign students mostly from India — who were already inoculated — to re-vaccinate since the brands they had taken have yet to secure a “green light” from the World...
’TOL VIEWS Senator Francis N. Tolentino The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has placed the entire Luzon grid under red alert due to insufficient power supply. As rotational brownouts loom due to low power reserves brought by high electricity demand, this latest electricity...
’TOL Views Senator Francis N. Tolentino This month formally marks the 500 years of the Spanish Inquisition in Asia, which first brought Christianity and Catholicism in the Philippines. Although the Inquisition had caused lives, persecutions, sufferings to the people, later to be known as...
Senator Francis N. Tolentino (On February 8, 2021, Senator Francis N. Tolentino spoke on the Senate floor as he voted no to Senate Bill No. 1886.) I vote NO, not because I am against Senate Bill No. 1866, which seeks to further expand the jurisdiction of the first-level and second-level courts. I...
’TOL VIEWS Senator Francis N. Tolentino The Japanese government recently announced that the Tokyo Olympics will take place as scheduled from 23 July to 8 August this year, despite doubts from various quarters about pushing through with the event in the midst of a global pandemic. The Games were...
