Here's a sad fact: government workers who serve as grassroots implementers of the P103-billion Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) are at risk of becoming poor themselves due to the contractual nature of their jobs. Realizing this, House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino...
There's a need to quantify in hard numbers the cost and benefit of the proposed economic Charter change (Cha-cha) in the House of Representatives. House Minority Leader 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (Contributed photo) Thus, said House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino...
How about an "air traffic czar" to help the government fix headaches like the perennial congestion of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)? House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan (Facebook) House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan made this pitch for a new position...
There is now more "clarity" in the agricultural hoarding issue that's being investigated by the House of Representatives. Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga (Contributed photo) This, after the House Committee on Agriculture and Food chaired by Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark...
House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan joined the many well-wishers of Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile on the latter's 99th birthday on Tuesday, Feb. 14. House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (left) and Chief Presidential Legal...
BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development revealed recently that 51,113 new households are set to be included as beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps in Northeastern Mindanao or the Caraga region this year. They are addition or...
House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan wants the Mandarin language be promoted in all school levels in the country, if only to help improve Filipinos' competitiveness in the international labor market. House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan (Facebook) “If we...
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program logo (FACEBOOK) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) so far identified 750,000 households that will replace the graduate-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), said Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Friday, Feb. 10....
The Committee on Poverty Alleviation in the House of Representatives has approved the substitute bill on measures seeking to expand the government's Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). (PPAB) Approved by the 1-PACMAN Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero-chaired panel during a recent public hearing...
For the first time since his wife took office as the country’s second-highest official, lawyer Mans Carpio represented Vice President Sara Duterte in a government-led event during the 72nd anniversary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) where she called on the agency to...
The 23-strong House minority bloc held its first meeting of the year on Wednesday, Jan. 25 with a certain presidential son as their special guest. 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan (left) and Vinny Marcos (right) (Facebook) No, it wasn't Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st...
House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan believes that the plan to privatize the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) won't solve its perennial problem of congestion. (PNA) “NAIA’s problem is lack of land for expansion. No new parallel runway can be built there...
